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2654 results for: Keyword - W. Wilson
We found 2399 matches on Performance Comments, 433 matches on Event Comments, 60 matches on Performance Title, 49 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2326
13 March 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of the Princess of Wales. Tomorrow Noon will be publish'd Appius, a Tragedy, as it is acting at Covent Garden. Printed for A. Miller, D. Wilson, and T. Durham in the Strand at 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Appius

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

2327
09 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bellamy. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets delivered for The Humorous Lieutenant will be taken. Receipts: #113 5s. Charges #63. Income from Tickets #152 5s. (boxes 339; pit 364; gallery 129). Profit to Mrs Bellamy #202 10s. [Her daily salary was #2 2s.; on this night she cleared more than 4 months' wages at 24 acting days per month.] Two New Renters came in: Solomon Paul Juliot and Francis Wilson at 1 share each. Rec'd of Benj. Read for 6 Box tickets for the 2nd inst. #1 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

2328
01 February 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [This month the periodical, The Beauties of All Magazines Selected (London, 1763) quoted from the Theatrical Review Remarks on that Part of Dramatical Entertainments called Singing," A garrulous article concluding: The millions must be pleased-if audiences were only to be entertained with sensible exhibitions, or if only sensible people composed those audiences, whew! in what a sickly and consumptive state would be two thirds of the first rate salaries in every theatre!' (p. 76). This month publish'd An Appeal to the Publick in behalf of the Manager. Price 1s. Printed for Wilson. Hear all; and then let Justice hold the Scale. Shakespeare. A rather full description of the Fitzpatrick half-price riots, exonerating Garrick and the players. This month (probably) was published Theatrical Disquisitions; or, a Review of the late Riot at Drury Lane Theatre, 25, 26 January 1763, By a Lady (32 pp.). A calm defense of the acting profession, and a scourge of Fitzpatrick as a coward and a great nuisance. She prefers seeing plays to reading them. Holds Garrick blameless for reviving the Chances after failure of Eastward Ho. Comments at length on brilliance of contemporary stage costume in comparison with that earlier in the century.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elvira

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

2329
13 May 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Kear, Keen and Watkins. Tickets deliver'd by Mr Wilson will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: II: A Song Call'd The Whistling Plowman-Kear

Dance: End: Tambourine, as17651004; End Farce: Hornpipe-Miss Watkins

2330
16 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wright and Keen. Tickets deliver'd by Watkins, Wilson, and Miss Berkley will be taken. Last time King will perform Richard III this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: The Wake, as17700502

2331
26 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Roberts, Wilson and Palmer. Tickets delivered by Humphreys will be taken. Receipts: #267 13s. Charges: #84. Profits to beneficiaries: #183 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Entertainment: End Opera: Bucks Have at Ye All-Palmer

2332
24 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Roberts, Wilson and Palmer. Tickets deliver'd by Humphreys will be taken. Paid a cotten Bill #2 11s. 4d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #254 1s. 6d. Charges: #84. Profits to beneficiaries: #170 1s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17740920

2333
31 July 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Foote; Aickin, Whitefiled, Fearon, Lane, Brett, L'Estrange, Wilson, Jacobs, Jones, Lloyd, Everard, Castevens, Walters, Pierce, Chaplin, Francis, Weston, Miss Ambrose, Miss Platt, Mrs Weston, Miss Francis; with a Reinforcement of Bayes's new-Raised troops-.

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: The Medley-

2334
02 October 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Westminster Magazine for October commented in a paragraph in general on ten new performers at Covent Garden this month: Mrs Jewell (?), Mrs Jackson, Mahon, Mrs Hunter, Wilson, Leoni, Mrs Barthelemon, Sheridan, and the dance team of the Zuchellis.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

2335
10 March 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Catley. No Part of the Pit can on any Account be laid into the Boxes. Public Advertiser, 3 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Catley at Wilson's, Watchmaker, No. 150, Drury-Lane. Receipts: #302 3s. (209.13; tickets: 92.10) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Dance: As17761123

Song: End afterpiece: Push about the Jorum, and an additional Versesuitable to the Night-Miss Catley

2336
02 June 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Silvester, Kaygill & Wilson. Receipts: #200 9s. 6d. (12.11.0; 3.13.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 184.5.0) (charge: #84)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: As17761128

2337
25 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Duenna [announced on playbill of 24 Feb.] is unavoidably postponed on account of Wilson's sudden and violent indisposition. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #138 10s. (135.4.6; 3.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

2338
27 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Little French Lawyer

Performance Comment: Characters by Quick, Whitfield, Thompson, Booth, Lee Lewes, L'Estrange, Fearon, Wewitzer, Mrs Poussin, Mrs Willems, Mrs Lessingham. [Cast from text (J. Bell, 1778): Le Writ-Quick; Dupre-Whitfield; Verdone-Thompson; Beaupre-Booth; Mellefont-[read byLee Lewes [in text: Death]; Vertaign-L'Estrange; Champernel-Fearon; Sampson-Wewitzer [in text: Wilson]; Agnes-Mrs Poussin; Viletta-Mrs Willems; Lamira-Mrs Lessingham.

Dance: End monologue: The Poney Races, as17780421

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Cunning Isaac will relate his Escape from the Duenna [with a new song]-Quick

2339
23 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Wilson, Devoto, Kaygill & Burroughs. Receipts: #182 18s. 6d. (22.15.0; 6.10.0; 0.2.6; tickets: 153.11.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: In I: Masquerade and Dance-

Song: With the Funeral Procession.The vocal parts-Gaudry, Legg, Carpenter, Chaplin, Holcroft, Philimore, Miss Abrams, Miss Collett, Miss Kirby, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Smith

2340
08 February 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Barbarossa [announced on playbill of 6 Feb.] is obliged to be deferred. Wilson's violent Hoarseness prevents his performing this Evening

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

2341
28 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Wilson, Hind, Kaygill & Burroughs. Tickets delivered by Newton, Barrett, Morris, Devoto, Lislie and McDonald will be taken. Receipts: #273 4s. 6d. (18.4.0; 1.18.6; 1.0.0; tickets: 252.2.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

2342
20 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Carleton Jun., Wilson & Hicks. Tickets delivered by Master Benson, Barrett, McDonald and Boroughs will be taken. Receipts: #256 14s. (18.1; 10.17; 0.13; tickets: 227.3) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Who's The Dupe

Dance: As17791215

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Bucks have at ye all-Master Benson

2343
06 June 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Suicide

Performance Comment: As17800530, but Principal Parts-_Edwin, Wilson, _Hitchcock, +Baddeley, _Usher.
Cast
Role: Principal Parts Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

2344
24 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Carleton Jun., Wilson, Hicks & R. Palmer? Sen.. Receipts: #289 16s. 6d. (30.16.0; 7.7.6; 0.11.0; tickets: 251.2.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

2345
24 September 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Marriage Act

Cast
Role: Dr Fabio Actor: Wilson
Role: Secretary Actor: J. Wilson

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene incident to the Play and a Minuet by Aldridge and Miss Besford. [These were included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Song: End of Act iv of mainpiece Juliet's Funeral Procession with the Solemn Dirge. Vocal Parts by Mattocks, Reinhold, Davies, Robson, J. Wilson, Baker, Darley, Doyle, Simpkinson; Miss Harper, Mrs Martyr, Miss Morris, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Kennedy

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts by Mattocks, Reinhold, Davies, Robson, J. Wilson, Baker, Darley, Doyle, Simpkinson; Miss Harper, Mrs Martyr, Miss Morris, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Kennedy .

2346
29 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Wilson, Carleton Jun., Hicks & Palmer [Sen.]. Receipts: #246 6s. (27/11/0; 11/7/6; 0/13/6; tickets: 206/14/0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17820223; In afterpiece the Minuet de la Cour by Zuchelli and Miss Collett

Song: In Act I of mainpiece a song by Williames

2347
12 June 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polly

Cast
Role: Jenny Diver Actor: Mrs Wilson

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of an Election

Performance Comment: Characters by Wilson, Edwin, Staunton, Egan, Usher, Wewitzer, Darley, Davis, Barrett, Painter, Kenny, Massey, Webb, Stevens, Swords, Ledger, Parsons; Miss Morris, Mrs Webb. Cast not known. Prologue spoken by Palmer .

Dance: As17820611

2348
20 September 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: . As17820914, but Mrs Wilson in place of Mrs Wells; Miss Morris of Miss Harper .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Cast
Role: Landlord of the Horns at Highgate Actor: Wilson

Dance: As17820826

2349
07 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Retaliation

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Wilson

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene, and a Minuet by Harris and Miss Matthews

Song: End of Act IV of mainpiece Juliet's Funeral Procession, with the Solemn Dirge. Vocal Parts by Mattocks, Reinhold, Brett, Mahon, J. Wilson, Darley, Doyle; Miss Harper, Mrs Martyr, Miss Morris, Miss Stuart, Mrs Kennedy

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts by Mattocks, Reinhold, Brett, Mahon, J. Wilson, Darley, Doyle; Miss Harper, Mrs Martyr, Miss Morris, Miss Stuart, Mrs Kennedy .

2350
26 December 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding

Performance Comment: Characters of the Pantomime by Wright, Grimaldi, Delpini, Suett, Fawcett, Waldron, Wrighten, Burton, R. Palmer, Chaplin, Norris, Spencer, Alfred, Mister Wilson; Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Granger, Miss Simson, Miss Barnes, Miss Collett. Vocal Parts by Chapman, Barrymore, Williames, Phillimore; Miss Field, Miss Wright, Mrs Wrighten. [Partial cast from European Magazine, Jan. 1783, p. 67, and Town and Country Magazine, Supp. 1782, p. 716: Harlequin-Wright; Clown-Grimaldi; Pantaloon-Delpini; Magician-Chaplin; Columbine-Miss Collett; Mirth-Miss Field; Diana-Mrs Wrighten.] hathi. hathi.