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4317 results for: Keyword - W. Mills
We found 3291 matches on Performance Comments, 828 matches on Roles/Actors, 413 matches on Event Comments, 302 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

901
04 May 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Corey and Will. Mills

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: As17231003, but Story-Will Mills; Mrs Day-_.
Cast
Role: Story Actor: Will Mills
Role: Blunt Actor: Mills

Dance: Swedish Dale Carle-Shaw, Mrs Tenoe; Venetians-Topham, Mrs Bullock; Whitson Holiday-Boval, Mrs Younger

902
26 April 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cory and William Mills. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17250218, but Malcolm-Will. Mills; Seyton-Cory.
Cast
Role: Malcolm Actor: Will. Mills
Role: Macbeth Actor: Mills

Dance:

903
16 March 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: As17300214, but Mrs Trusty-Mrs Mills.
Cast
Role: Mrs Trusty Actor: Mrs Mills.
Role: Manly Actor: Mills

Dance:

904
23 August 1733 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Miller-Mills-Oates Booth, over against the Hospital Gate

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore; With The Comical And Diverting Humours Of Sir Anthony Noodle And His Man Weazle

Performance Comment: Sir Anthony-Miller;Weazle-Norris; King Edward IV-Ridout; Gloucester-Winstone; Sir Robert Brockenbury-Turbutt; Jane Shore-Miss Oates; Flora-Mrs Clarke; Mrs Blake-Mrs Bennet; Shore-Wm. Mills; Captain Aires-Bardin; Dick Dreary-Bencraft; Tom Padwell-Clarke; Gibbet-Excell; Forgewell-Tenoe; Timothy Stampwell-Oates; Blunderbuss-Chapman.
Cast
Role: Shore Actor: Wm. Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Gardens of Venus; or, The Truimphs of Love

Dance: I: La Brone and La Blonde-Vallois and Mlle Vallois; II: Hornpipe-Jones Sr, Jones Jr

905
09 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. As 27 Nov. 1738

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: As17390115, but Foppington-Macklin; Lady Betty-Mrs Mills; Edging-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Lady Betty Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Sir Charles Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Song: II: The Noontide Air, as17390407

Dance: III: Grand Ballet-Muilment; V: Minuet-Denoyer, Mrs Walter

906
26 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mills. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Cast
Role: Clerimont Actor: Mills
Role: Mariana Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17390405 but King-Mills; Kate-Miss Chetwood; Attendants-_; Foresters-_.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Mills

Dance: SSaraband-Miss Scott; Serious Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter; Minuet-Rector, Mrs Walter

Song: OOh Happy Pair-Beard

907
09 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. Tickets at Mills's House, Nassau St., Soho. Stage form'd into an amphitheatre and so enclosed as to prevent the Ladies taking cold. Afterpiece not acted for 15 years [but see 17 March 1732]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Subtle Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; or, The Merry Beggars

Performance Comment: Oliver-Mills; Springlove-Cross; Old Rents-Turbutt; Hearty-Dunstall; Randal-Morgan; Patrico-Woodburn; Martin-Ray; Justice Clack-Taswell; Vincent-Blakes; Hillyard-Moreland; Rachel-Mrs Chetwood; Meriel-Miss Budgell; Amice-Miss Bradshaw; Beggars-Collins, Gray, Miss Scotts.
Cast
Role: Oliver Actor: Mills

Song: BBritons Strike Home-Moreland

Dance: Muilment, Mlle Auguste; A Dance-Desse, Mrs Walter

908
18 December 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [See Mills' letter, 11 Dec., hay.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: As17441112, but Plume-Mills, 1st appearance here this season.
Cast
Role: Plume Actor: Mills, 1st appearance here this season.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: As17441217

Dance: As17441217

909
06 April 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Muilment. Mr Garrick's Indisposition not suffering him to play, I have prevail'd upon Mr Mills to endeavour to play his part, as well as the shortness of the time will permit, which I hope will be more agreeable to my Friends than changing the Play. Being the last time of performing till the Holidays. [Craftsman No. 580 this day, quoted in the Gentlemen's Magazine, included a brief plea for the present ministry to get the Play-house Act repealed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: As17450207, but Lothario-Mills.
Cast
Role: Lothario Actor: Mills.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: II: New Grand Dance-Muilment; III: New Dance-Muilment; V: Muilment

Song: IV: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne

910
30 April 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mills. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Letter in the General Advertiser in appreciation of the elegant fireworks displayed at the New Wells, Goodman's Fields, this evening.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Performance Comment: As17470328 but Antony-Giffard; Portia-Mrs Mills; Soothsayer-I. Sparks.
Cast
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Caesar Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband Criticised

Cast
Role: Principal parts Actor: Macklin, Mills, Yates, Barrington, Blakes, Taswell, Mrs Macklin, Mrs Elmy, Mrs Bennett, Neale, Winstone

Song: I: Cantata-Sullivan; IV: Lowe

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; V: Comic Dance, as17470410

911
09 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mills. Tickets deliver'd out by Taswell, Sg Piettro, and Mr Oswald, as well as those for Lady Jane Gray will be taken. Receipts: #128 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: As17520319 but Hero-Mrs Mills; Margaret-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Hero Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Lottery

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Janeton Auretti, Master Piettro

912
30 December 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Gardner. Afterpiece: From The Devil upon Two Sticks, written by the late Samuel Foote, Esq. [Mrs Mills is identified in Morning Chronicle, 1 Jan. 1783. For remarks on this night's performance, including references to Dunstan by Charles Lamb, see Theatre Notebook, VIII, 5.] Gardner having unavoidably been obliged to postpone his night from the 26th to the 30th, he thinks it his duty to inform his friends that tickets delivered for the 26th will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Lothario-A Gentleman (1st appearance on the stage [unidentified]); Sciolto-Gardner; Altamont-Wetherhead; Rossano-Spencer; Horatio-Usher; Lavinia-Miss King; Lucilla-Miss Painter; Calista-A Lady (1st appearance on the stage [Mrs Mills]) .Mrs Mills]) .

Afterpiece Title: The Fourth Act of The Merchant of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Dr Lasts's Examination BEFORE THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

913
18 February 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [Mrs Mills was from the Edinburgh theatre.] Receipts: #173 6s. 6d. (140/13/0; 32/11/0; 0/0/0; ticket not come in: 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus-Brereton; Bellarius-Aickin; Guiderius-Farren; Arviragus-Barry more; Cymbeline-Wrighten; Pissanio-Packer; Lucius-Phillimore; French Gentleman-Fawcett; Philario-Wright; Cornelius-Chaplin; Cloten (1st time)-R. Palmer; Iachimo-Smith; Queen-Mrs Hopkins; Imogen-Mrs Mills (1st appearance on that stage) .
Cast
Role: Imogen Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene, with Dancing by Williamson and Miss M. Stageldoir; End of Act III, as17820917

Song: In Masquerade, by Miss Romanzini

914
28 May 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Farley, Mrs Chapman & Mrs Mills. 1st piece: Not acted these 3 years. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. 3rd piece: With Alterations and Additions. Not acted these 20 years [acted 29 Oct. 1781.] Receipts: #313 12s. 6d. (95.13.0; 3.1.6; tickets: 214.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Life's Vagaries

Performance Comment: Lord Arthur D'Aimurle-Lewis; Dickins (1st time)-Emery; Timolin-Johnstone; Sir Hans Burges-Munden; George Burges-Fawcett; Lord Torrendale (1st time)-Waddy; Robin-Townsend; Leillet-Farley; Augusta (1st time)-Mrs Chapman; Fanny Dickins (1st time)-Mrs Mills; Miss Clare-Mrs Follett; Poor Woman-Mrs Whitmore; Lady Torrendale (1st time)-Miss Chapman.
Cast
Role: Fanny Dickins Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: Saturday Night at Sea; or, Tars at Anchor

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gipsies

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Bologna Jun.; Squire Breakneck-Farley; Beggar-Townsend; (with) A Beggar I am of low degree-Townsend; Natty Sammy-Simmons; Justice Smallwit-Whitmore; Deputy Paunch-Hawtin; Baker-Blurton; Captain Swagger-Coombs; Highwaymen-Dyke, Blurton [i.e. doubled Baker]; Waiters-Webb, Rees Jun.; Serjeant-Claremont; Corporal-L. Bologna; Countrymen-Abbot, Rees; Pierrot (for that night only)-Laurent (1st appearance on this stage); Hunter and Huntress-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Atkins; (with) Tantara-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Atkins; Gipsies-Ms Iliff, Ms Castelle, Ms Leserve, Ms Burnett, Ms Norton, Ms Masters, Mt Linton, Mt Street, Mt Thomas, Mt Lee, Mt Curties; (with) O who has seen the miller's wife-Ms Iliff, Ms Castelle, Ms Leserve, Ms Burnett, Ms Norton, Ms Masters, Mt Linton, Mt Street, Mt Thomas, Mt Lee, Mt Curties; Pierrot's Wife-Mrs Watts; Mother to Columbine-Mrs Whitmore; Nurse-Mrs Lloyd; Deputy's Lady-Mrs Gilbert; Columbine-Mrs Mills.
Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Mills.

Song: End II 1st piece: Admiral Benbow-Incledon; End 1st piece: The Group of Lovers-Munden

915
19 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: I: A Dance-Aldridge, Miss Baker; After the Entertainment: A New Dance call'd the Fortune Tellers-Aldridge, Miss Baker

Entertainment: End: King (for that night only) will present the Audience with a New Comic Descriptive Piece call'd Ralph's Ramble Or O'Rare London! (being a short sequel to a comic character in the Maid of the Mill.)-King

916
04 May 1665 @ no theater listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow

917
09 November 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day; or, A Flight from Lapland

Dance: I afterpiece: The Long Minuet- taken from the Caricature Print of that title [The Long Minuet as Danced at Bath, by H. W. Bunbury; see17951116]

918
20 November 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd; Or, Patie And Roger

Song: I: Favourite Song of Terry Woo-M'Donald

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Mas. Mills; IV: Hornpipe-Rawlins

Performance Comment: Mills; IV: Hornpipe-Rawlins.

919
28 December 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: End II: The Lucky Return-Mills, Miss Stageldoir; III: Hornpipe-Mills

920
10 May 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Charles The First

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Song: I: Dialogue (composed by Purcell)-the Masters Hamilton; III: A Song of Lord Flame's out of the Opera of All Alive and Merry-Master W. Hamilton

Dance: II: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; V: A new Serious Dance-Mlle Roland

921
31 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysterious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle, As17820930, but Jeremy-W

Dance: As17821231

922
08 March 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal Son

Music: End of Part I concerto on the hautboy by W. Parke

923
02 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of mainpiece The Drunken Sailor Reclaimed, as17860304athi

Song: In Act I of mainpiece an obligato song for the oboe (composed by Shield and accompanied by W. Parke); In Act III a favourite song (composed by Sard), both by Mrs Billington

924
31 March 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: In afterpiece: Sweet Echo-Mrs Billington; accompanied on the hautboy-W. Parke

925
28 January 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End II: Leap Year-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

Song: In afterpiece: (for that Night only) Sweet Bird-, from L'Allegro il Penseroso by Handel Mrs Billington; accompanied on the flute-W. Parke