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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "William Cobston"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "William Cobston")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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12306 results for: Keyword - William Cobston
We found 10794 matches on Author, 1664 matches on Performance Comments, 434 matches on Event Comments, 51 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

576
17 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Vaughan

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

577
19 October 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Ray

Song: As17411015

Dance: II: Ballet-Desse; IV: Sailor's Dance-Dumont, Mrs Walter

578
19 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Vaughan

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

579
28 October 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Ray

Dance: LLes Masons et Les Sabotiers, as17411027; Le Genereux Corsaire, as17411021

580
28 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Vaughan

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: TThe Italian Peasants, as17411024

581
10 November 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Ray

Dance: LLes Matelotes-Sg and Sga Fausan; Le Genereux Corsaire, as17411102

582
28 November 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Ray

Dance: Particularly, Les Matelotes, as17411110; Les Jardiniers Suedois-Fausan, Sga Fausan, LaCroix, Delamain, Dumont, Constantini, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Rayner, Miss Wright; With new decorations

583
21 December 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Ray

Dance: LLe Genereux Corsaire-Fausan, Signora Fausan only; but see17411214

584
08 January 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Vaughan

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

585
22 January 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Vaughan

Ballet: into it will be introduc'd the Rinto it will be introduc'd the +Rural Assembly. As17420121

586
13 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Vaughan

Dance: Entertainments, as17420210, but Dubuisson, Mme +Bonneval; +Chacone, as17411230; Saraband-Sga Barbarina; La Provencale, as17420212

Ballet: After: Rural Assembly. As17420121

587
11 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Ray

Song: I: a Song with French Horns-Beard; III: A Ballad-Lowe

Dance: II: Les Matelotes, as17411110

Ballet: V: Les Satires Puny. As17420304

588
08 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Ray

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: I: Les Jardiniers Suedois-the Mechels; II: A Grand Ball Dance-Mechel Sen, Mechel Jr, Mlle Mechel; IV: The Cuckow Dance-the Mechels; V: The German Hussar-the Mechels

Song: III: Song-Beard

589
23 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Vaughan

Dance: I: The Peasants, as17420210; III: Minuet (by desire)-Destrade, Mlle Auguste; New Comic Dance, Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

Song: II: Ruddier than the Cherry, out of Acis and Galetea (Set by Handel),-Reinhold; IV: True Blue-Roberts

590
14 October 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Ray

Song: III: Song-Beard

Music: IV: Concerto-Veracini

Dance: II: La Mascarada, as17421009; V: Les Matelotes, as17421009

591
27 October 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Ray

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Song: I: Song-Beard

Dance: V: Turkish Seraglio, as17421025, but With New Habits and Decorations

592
30 November 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Ray

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Dance: I: Grand Comic Dance-Torinese, Signora Aquilanti; V: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, as17421126

593
21 December 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Ray

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

594
06 January 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Ray

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: III: Beard

Music: II: Concerto on German Flute-Burke Thumoth; V: Concerto on Violincello-Cervetti

595
23 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Ray

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: New Ballet, as17430502; IV: A New Hussar Dance, as17430425

Music: II: New Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth; V: Concerto on Violin-Piantanida

Song: III: The Noontide Air-Sullivan

596
31 December 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Ray

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Related Works
Related Work: The Stage Coach Opera Author(s): William Chetwood

Dance: I: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

597
21 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: William Actor: Vaughan

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

598
19 January 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Williams, Baker, Janno, Scott
Role: Demons Actor: Williams, Janno, Baker, Tool, Fulwell
Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): William ShakespeareSir William Davenant
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): Sir William Davenant

599
20 January 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Williams, Baker, Janno, Scott
Role: Demons Actor: Williams, Janno, Baker, Tool, Fulwell
Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): William ShakespeareSir William Davenant
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): Sir William Davenant

600
09 February 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Williams, Baker, Janno, Scott
Role: Demons Actor: Williams, Janno, Baker, Tool, Fulwell
Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): William ShakespeareSir William Davenant
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay