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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Wilson"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Wilson")') 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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3568 results for: Keyword - Wilson
We found 5614 matches on Roles/Actors, 1172 matches on Performance Comments, 179 matches on Event Comments, 49 matches on Author, and 28 matches on Performance Title.

3526
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

3527
12 May 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for W. Palmer, Clough, Wright, Mrs Millidge. Tickets deliver'd by Wilson and Mr Costin will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Wright

3528
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

3529
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

3530
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

3531
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-

3532
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

3533
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

3534
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

3535
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

3536
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

3537
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

3538
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

3539
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

3540
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

3541
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

3542
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

3543
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

3544
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.

3545
03 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Performance Comment: As17821226, but omitted: Spencer, Alfred, Master Wilson; Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Granger, Miss Simson, Miss Barnes .

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Masquerade and Dance proper to the Play

3546
23 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Miss Barnes, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Heard, Miss Richards, Dale, Stageldoir, Daglish, Kenny, Brigg, Master Wilson will be taken. Receipts: #211 14s. 6d. (27/5/0; 14/16/0; 0/7/6; tickets: 169/6/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17820917; End of Act iv Hornpipe by a Young Lady [unidentified] (Scholar of Brigg)

Song: End of mainpiece Tally Ho! by Miss Barnes

3547
28 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Carleton Jun., Wilson, Hicks & Palmer Sen. Receipts: #267 3s (14/17; 7/6; 0/14; tickets: 244/6) (charge: #105 8s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17830505

3548
12 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: As17830531, but Wilson in place of Gaudrey; Kenny in place of Ledger .

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17830611

3549
14 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Peachum to Wilson, and Lockit to Booth, but on the Kemble playbill MS annotations substitute Booth and Thompson.] Receipts: #140 6s. (139/2; 1/4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: (End of Act I) The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Miss Besford

3550
07 January 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior; or, The Magis Cestus

Performance Comment: Characters by Wright, Williamson, Burton, Staunton, Williames, R. Palmer, Waldron, Chaplin, Phillimore, Wilson, Alfred, Spencer, Kenny, Grimaldi; Mrs Burnett, Miss Burnett, Miss Tidswell, Miss Barnes, Miss Cranford, Miss M. Stageldoir. [Partial cast from Parker's General Advertiser, 8 Jan.: Old Harlequin-Wright; Magician-Staunton; Sailor-Williames; Clown-Grimaldi; Spirit-Miss Cranford; Colombine-Miss M. Stagedoir. Playbill of 10 Nov. 1788 lists the other parts: Harlequin, German Officer, French Gentleman, Valet, Miller, Landlord, Cook, Daemon, Taylor; Old Colombine, French Ladies.] hathi. Old Colombine, French Ladies.] hathi.

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Miss Phillips