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27804 results for: Keyword - Mrs Williams
We found 23589 matches on Performance Comments, 11037 matches on Author, 4586 matches on Event Comments, 4237 matches on Performance Title, and 137 matches on Roles/Actors.

1626
08 May 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Shepard and Mrs Moore. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Banquo Actor: Williams
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Lady Macduff Actor: Mrs Horton

Dance: HHarlequin-Young Master Lally, Miss Brett; Pieraite-Roger, Mrs Brett

1627
16 March 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17301125, but Montano-Havard; Roderigo-Bullock; Gratiano-_; A new Epilogue-Mrs Haughton.
Cast
Role: A new Epilogue Actor: Mrs Haughton.
Role: Lodovico Actor: R. Williams.
Role: Cassio Actor: W. Williams
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Haughton.

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach Opera

1628
17 April 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Haughton. At the Desire of several Ladies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Cast
Role: Gratiano Actor: Williams
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Haughton.

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Performance Comment: As17320414 but Kitty-Mrs Roberts; Thomas-Bullock.
Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Roberts

Dance: II: A new Scotch Dance-Burney, Miss Wherrit; IV: Entry-Burney, Miss Wherrit

Song: III: Bacchanalian Song-Excell

1629
17 August 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17320804, but Lodovico-Paget; Montano-Winstone; Gratiano-Ridout; Roderigo-Mrs Charke.
Cast
Role: Roderigo Actor: Mrs Charke.
Role: Desdemona Actor: Miss Williams
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Butler.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil of a Duke or Trapolins Vagaries

Performance Comment: Trapolin-Bridgwater; Flametta-Miss Raftor; Lavinio-Roberts; Barberino-Paget; Bruneto-Stoppelaer; Prudentia-Miss Atherton; Alberto-Winstone; Mago-Cross; Isabella-Miss Mears; Puritan-Jones; but edition of 1732 adds: 1st Woman-Young Leigh; 2d-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: 2d Actor: Mrs Willis.

Dance: HHighland Dance-Native of Scotland; A new Scotch Dance-Holt, Mrs Walter; Je ne scai quoy-Vallois, Mrs Walter

1630
04 May 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [Tickets for Davenport and Mrs Gould taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Cast
Role: Williams Actor: Rosco
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Isabel Actor: Mrs James
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Ware

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

1631
14 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Pritchard. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Audry Actor: Mrs Egerton
Role: Caelia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Clive.
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Bennett

Dance: II: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Les Caprices des Rebelles-Mlle Maltere; IV: La Terpsichore-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Miss Scott

1632
21 December 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17420914, but Audrey-Mrs Ridout.
Cast
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Ridout.
Role: Celia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Woffington

Dance: I: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, as17421126; IV: La Recrue des Houssars-Checo, Chiaretti

1633
19 January 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17470116, but Dorinda-Mrs Cushing.
Cast
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Cushing.
Role: Hippolito Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Wignell
Role: Dances Actor: Williams, Baker, Janno, Scott
Role: Demons Actor: Williams, Janno, Baker, Tool, Fulwell
Role: Amphytrite Actor: Mrs Cushing.

1634
23 April 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17530313 but Oliver-Burton; Audry-Mrs James.
Cast
Role: Audry Actor: Mrs James.
Role: Celia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Phebe Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

1635
25 November 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Income from Boxes #83 10s. Rec'd from Mrs Jansolin deficiency for 8 May last #7. Expenses #46 3s. 8d. Receipts: #225 (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Cast
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Williams Actor: Buck
Role: Isabel Actor: Mrs Stephens
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Bellamy.

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

1636
26 November 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: JJohn Rich Esq, Master and Patentee of the TRCG, died Thursday 26 Nov. 1761, about six o'clock in the evening, at his house adjoining to the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, in the seventieth year of his age. Mrs Priscilla Rich sole executrix of the Will of John Rich Esq, deceas'd. Mr John Rich was buried in Hillingdon Churchyard. (See his Epitaph, Lysons's Middlesex Parishes, p. 162) Dec. 4, 1761. ibid p. 173 (Hopkins MS Notes). Income from Boxes #85 5s. Rec'd of John Condill on acct of Fruit #20. Expenses #46 3s. 8d. [The balance brought forward to this date for this season was #2007 9s. 1d. From this was subtracted the #1291 19s. 4d. necessary for starting the season (see 9 Sept.), which left Beard a favorable balance of #715 9s. 9d. with which to carry on. The Winston Theatrical Record ceases on this date.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Cast
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Williams Actor: Buck
Role: Isabel Actor: Mrs Stephens
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Bellamy.

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

1637
08 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wrighten and Miss Rogers. Music and words by author and composer of Padlock [I. Bickerstaffe]. Book of the Entertainment to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Bradshaw.
Role: Phoebe Actor: Mrs Davies.
Role: Caelia Actor: Mrs Baddeley
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: The Ephesian Matron or The Widows Tears

Performance Comment: Parts-Bannister, Davis, Mrs Dorman, Mrs Wrighten. Centurian [?]-Bannister; Father [?]-Davies; Maid [?]-Mrs Dorman; Matron [?]-Mrs Wrighten (MacMillan).
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Bannister, Davis, Mrs Dorman, Mrs Wrighten. Centurian
Role: ] Actor: Mrs Dorman
Role: ] Actor: Mrs Wrighten

Song: I: The Sycamore Shade-Mrs Wrighten; IV: The Soldier Tir'd-Mrs Wrighten

Dance: End: A Minuet, Louvre-Noverre, Miss Rogers, his scholar

1638
17 December 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit of the New Building of the City of London Lying In Hospital, in the City Road, Old Street. Paid Weston's note to Mr Curtis #5; Mrs Bolter for 25 yds. white and silver silk, #28 15s.; 8 extra Trumpets 4 nights (13th inst. incl.) #12 (Treasurer's Book). This day published The Theatres; a poetical dissection by Sir Nicholas Nipclose (Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser). [It is packed with embittered comments on managerial policy and upon theatrical personalities.] Receipts: #228 18s. 6d. Charges: #84; Profit to Hospital #144 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Sally Actor: Mrs Scott

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

1639
09 April 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17711217, but Phoebe-Mrs Davies; Duke Frederick-Bransby; Jaques-Aickin.
Cast
Role: Phoebe Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Cast
Role: Mrs Cadwallader Actor: Mrs Abington

Dance: I: The Amusements of Strasburgh, as17711118

1640
17 March 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17731102, but Corin-Hartry; Jaques-Aickin; Shepherdess-Mrs Hunt.
Cast
Role: Shepherdess Actor: Mrs Hunt.
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Barry
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Phoebe Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: In V will be introduced a Song Actor: Mrs Hunt.

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performance Comment: Glib-King; Sir Toby Fuz-Bransby; Sir Macaroni Virtue-Dodd; Orpheus-Vernon; Rhodope-Mrs Wrighten; Miss Fuz-Mrs Davies; Lady Fuz-Mrs Hopkins; Others-Moody, Packer, Palmer, Hartry, J. Aickin, Wright, Johnston, Mrs Love, Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Rhodope Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Role: Miss Fuz Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Lady Fuz Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Others Actor: Moody, Packer, Palmer, Hartry, J. Aickin, Wright, Johnston, Mrs Love, Mrs Bradshaw.

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

1641
26 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton, Longley, Colley & Robson, pit-door keeper. Tickets delivered by Stephenson, Robinson, Varley, W. Ansell, Smallwood and Shuter will be admitted this Evening. [This was Mrs Green's last appearance on the stage.] Receipts: #207 3s. 6d. (17.17.6; 1.9.0; tickets: 187.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Cast
Role: Mrs Hardcastle Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Miss Neville Actor: Mrs Lewis
Role: Miss Hardcastle Actor: Mrs Bulkley.

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Cast
Role: Sophia Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Betsy Blossom Actor: Mrs Wilson

Dance: As17800414

1642
01 June 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17820427, but Amiens (1st time)-Williamcs; Audrey-Mrs Davenett (of CG); Miss Blower's name listed in playbill (2nd appearance on any stage) . Miss Blower's name listed in playbill (2nd appearance on any stage) .
Cast
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Davenett

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Wife Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Role: Fillagree Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Wells

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17820223; End of Act I of afterpiece The Irish Fair, as17820406

1643
06 December 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "Palmer's Stukely was exactly infamous, his Scene with Mrs Beverley was just on both hands, each seemed to gain Spirit by the Nature and Exactness of the other-it was inimitable. Kemble's Beverley was all we could wish; his Manner, peculiar as it is, gave us home Sensations" (Public Advertiser, 9 Dec). Receipts: #226 13s. 6d. (202/6/0; 23/10/0; 0/2/6; tickets not come in: 0/15/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Brereton
Role: Mrs Beverley Actor: Mrs Siddons.
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Heard.

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Cast
Role: Betsy Blossom Actor: Mrs Wilson

1644
08 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces Tancred and Sigismunda, but "[Mrs Siddons] again appeared in Lady Randolph, for on the sudden illness of Kemble, Tancred was thus forced to be changed" (Public Advertiser, 10 May).] Receipts: #225 18s. (207/18/0; 16/10/0; 0/12/6; tickets not come in: 0/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Cast
Role: Lady Randolph Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Cast
Role: Betsy Blossom Actor: Mrs Wilson

1645
18 May 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. The last time of Mrs Siddons's performing this Season. Receipts: #295 14s. (287/14; 6/10; 1/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Siddons
Role: Caelia Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Wrighten

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Cast
Role: Miss Halfwit Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Mrs Meddle Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Mrs Matadore Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Dance: As17850430

1646
21 November 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces Richard Coeur de Lion, but because of "Mrs Jordan's sudden indisposition [it was changed] to The Humourist" (General Advertiser, 22 Nov.).] Receipts: #177 7s. 6d. (148.10.0; 27.8.0; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Miss Alton Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Mrs Blandish Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Mrs Sagely Actor: Mrs Booth

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

1647
14 December 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "The Greybeards have certainly been chastised, for we did not find them at all gross. The piece is farcical and improbable, but has some good things, and is admirably acted. Coeur de Lion did not answer; nor was I much charmed with the music; but my ear is too bad to judge at first hearing. The scenes are excellent; Mrs Jordan is quite out of her character, and makes nothing of the part; and the turning the ferocious Richard into a tender husband is intolerable...It only makes a confusion in one's ideas, to maim a known story" (Walpole [15 Dec. 1786], XIII, 429)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Grey beards

Performance Comment: As17861207, but unassigned-Mrs _Heard, Miss _Barnes; Mrs_ Cuyler. Mrs_ Cuyler.
Cast
Role: unassigned Actor: Mrs _Heard, Miss _Barnes
Role: Principal Characters Actor: King, Kemble, Parsons, Benson, Wilson, Jones, Bannister Jun., Palmer, Mrs Crouch, Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Brereton, Mrs Cuyler, Mrs Heard, Miss Barnes, Mrs Wilson, Miss Farren.
Role: Donna Antonia Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Rachel Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Role: Donna Viola Actor: Mrs Brereton
Role: Donna Clara Actor: Mrs Cuyler
Role: Cartola Actor: Mrs Wilson

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Laurette Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Matilda Actor: Mrs Jordan.

1648
29 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17870413, but Rosalind-Mrs Siddons.
Cast
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Siddons.
Role: Caelia Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: the Cuckoo Song Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Cast
Role: Nancy Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Mrs Pattypan Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: As17870126

Song: In: the Cuckoo Song-Caelia; V: a song-Mrs Forster

1649
17 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The New Peerage

Cast
Role: Miss Harley Actor: read by Mrs Brereton.
Role: Principal Characters Actor: King, Bannister Jun., Suett, Packer, Lamash, Phillimore, Wilson, Benson, Spencer, Alfred, Wroughton, Mrs Crouch, Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Cuyler, Miss Farren.
Role: Miss Vandercrab Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Cuyler

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Performance Comment: As17871108, but Lauretta-Mrs Forster.
Cast
Role: Lauretta Actor: Mrs Forster.
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Matilda Actor: Mrs Jordan.

1650
27 March 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Cast
Role: Lady Constant Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Furnish Actor: Mrs A. Palmer.
Role: Mrs Lovemore Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Performance Comment: As17871117, but Matilda-Mrs Crouch (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Matilda Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Lauretta Actor: Mrs Forster.
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Love