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17963 results for: Keyword - the Sir Williams
We found 11545 matches on Author, 6982 matches on Performance Comments, 1316 matches on Event Comments, 1129 matches on Roles/Actors, and 512 matches on Performance Title.

3101
16 January 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Play By Particular Desire. Receipts: #60

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Dance: I: The French Peasants-the Mechels; III: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; IV: Les Matelotes, as17411208

Song: II: Happy Pair-Beard

3102
09 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow Milward and her 4 children. Receipts: #230

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17420116, but Duke Sen.-Ridout; Frederick-Winstone; Orlando-Mills; LeBeau-Woodburn; Charles-Raftor; William-Ray; Epilogue to the Memory of Milward-Cibber.

Dance: I: A Concerto, as17420105; III: The Swiss, as17410926; V: Le Boufon, as17411030

Song: II: See from the Silent Groves-Beard; IV: Happy Pair-Beard

3103
20 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Dance: I: A Concerto, as17420105; IV: Le Boufon, as17420325

3104
14 September 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Places to be taken for the Boxes at the stage door of the theatre. [This customary notice will not be included further.] Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: Nell-Mrs Clive; Butler-Raftor; Jobson-Turbutt; Lady Loverule-Miss Bennet; Sir John Loverule-Lowe (in which character will be introduc'd The Early Horn).
Cast
Role: Sir John Loverule Actor: Lowe
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

3105
17 December 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission Benefit Miss Jenny Cibber. Tickets deliver'd out for the 12th will be taken. By particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [T. Cibber says: It was hinted to me, I might, unmolested, take a Benefit for myself, or Daughter, or both.-Serio-Comic Apology, p. 18.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17441013, but Tybalt-Williams; Balthasar-Miss Charke; Page-Miss Thomson; with a prologue on Somebody-Nobody; Epilogue-Miss Cibber.
Cast
Role: Tybalt Actor: Williams
Role: Apothecary Actor: Hacket.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

3106
25 September 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

3107
05 December 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece Written by Shakespear. On Monday next The Recruiting Officer, The whole receipt of the house to be subscribed to the Veteran Scheme at Guildhall. [This advertisement was carried on the two following days.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Loverule Actor: Mrs Bennet
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: M Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Song: V: The Subscription-Lowe

3108
02 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Dance: I: Les Caprices de la Dance-Sga Auretti; III: Grand Ballet-Cooke, Janeton Auretti; V: Polish Dance-Cooke, Sga Auretti, Leviez, Mathews, Shawford, Royer, Pelling, Mrs Addison, Mrs Shawford, Miss Cole, Miss Thompson

3109
26 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: The Gardners Revels, as17471117; V: Polish Dance, as17471102

3110
15 October 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Reviv'd not acted these 3 years. [See 16 May 1748.] Written by Shakespeare. Receipts: #50 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Mathews, the Little Swiss

3111
21 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Scrase, Costollo, and Wilder. Tickets and places to be had at the Stage Door of the theatre. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England

Cast
Role: Dorothea Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

Song: I: Master Vernon

Entertainment: S+SpecialtyAfter: An Elogium-Mr Ross;wrote by Dryden, concluding with Milton's Epitaph to the Memory of Shakespear-Mr Ross. representing the shade of Shakespear as figured on his monument in Westminster Abbey. By Particular Desire.

Performance Comment: representing the shade of Shakespear as figured on his monument in Westminster Abbey. By Particular Desire..

3112
25 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Other parts Actor: Leviez, Blakes, Vaughan, Shuter, the Little Swiss, Miss Rayner, Master Reinhold, Mlle Mariet, Pietro.

Dance: Several New Entertainments:A Dutch Dance-Mad Auguste lately arriv'd from Paris,; The Hungarian Peasants-Ferrere, Mad Auretti; Comic Dance-Devisse, Mlle Auguste

3113
13 September 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Matthews, the Little Swiss

3114
22 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Orlando-Smith, 1st time; Jaques-Sparks; Duke Senior-Ridout; Duke Frederick-Gibson; Oliver-Anderson; Sylvius-Bennet; Touchstone-Shuter; Corin-Dunstall; LeBeau-White; Charles-Bencraft; William-Collins; Adam-Bridgwater; Amiens (with songs adapted to the play)-Lowe; Audrey-Mrs Pitt; Phoebe-Miss Cockayne; Celia-Mrs Vincent; Rosalind-Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Camargo

3115
10 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr, Mrs and Master Simson. Tickets of Simson in Wild-Passage, Wild St., near Lincoln's Inn Fields, and at stage door. Mainpiece: Acted but once this season. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #206 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Sir Hugh Evans Actor: Yates

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Performance Comment: Oberon-Mas. Simson; Cynthia-Miss Simson; the Statue-Granier; With an Occasional Prologue-Mas. Simson; The whole to conclude with a Minuet-the two principal characters of the Farce.
Cast
Role: the Statue Actor: Granier
Role: The whole to conclude with a Minuet Actor: the two principal characters of the Farce.

Song: I: Mary Scot (by particular desire)-Beard; III: A Scots Cantata-Beard; IV: Hooly and Fairly-Beard

Dance: CCountry Amusements, as17540416

3116
25 September 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Orlando-Smith; Jaques-Sparks; Duke Senior-Ridout; Duke Frederick-Redman; Oliver-Anderson; Sylvius-R. Smith; Touchstone-Shuter; Corin-Dunstall; Le Beau-White; Jaques de Bois-Holtom; William-Collins; Adam-Gibson; Amiens (with songs adapted to the play)-Lowe; Audrey-Mrs Pitt; Phoebe-Mrs Cockayne; Celia-Mrs Barrington; Rosalind-Mrs Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performance Comment: Sir Thomas-Arthur; Friendly-Lowe; Dick-Anderson; Betty-Mrs Pitt; Hob-Dunstall; Flora-Miss Young.
Cast
Role: Sir Thomas Actor: Arthur

3117
18 February 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Proteus

3118
13 May 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Foley and Veil. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Jasper Actor: Mas. Cautherley

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Walker

3119
17 May 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: I: Pantomime Dance, as17560511; III: Fingalian Dance, as17551126; V: Italian Peasants, as17551126

Entertainment: IV: Cries of Dublin-Barrington

3120
22 November 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Jaques-Sparks; Orlando-Smith; Frederick-Redman; Oliver-Anderson; Sylvius-Bennet; Charles-Buck; Duke Sr-Ridout; Touchstone-Shuter; Corin-Dunstall; LeBeau-White; Jaques de Bois-Holtom; William-Costollo; Amiens (with the songs in character)-Lowe; Adam-Gibson; Phoebe-Miss Mullart; Audrey-Mrs Pitt; Caelia-Mrs Vincent; Rosalind-Mrs Woffington.

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

3121
10 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

3122
21 November 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Ballet: TThe Feast of Bacchus. As17581116

3123
03 November 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Cast
Role: The Witches Actor: Beard, Miss Polly Young, Miss Catley, Miss Davies
Role: The Dances Actor: Maranesi, Sodi, Sga Maranesi, Tassoni, Granier.

3124
13 September 1766 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [D$DuBellamy, as would appear from a letter to the Printer of the Public Advertiser, 20 Sept. "Being at the Opera House last week to see the Conscious Lovers and As You Like It, not to mention the various and allowed excellencies of each performer, I was most agreeably surprized at the songs, in the bills said to be sung by a Gentleman, which indeed his genteel figure and polite address, at first sight well authenticated; but for the songs, viz. If Love's a Sweet Passion,--Blow, Blow Thou Winter's Wind,--with some others I must confess I never heard the like; his voice was finely masculine, strong, sweet, clear and articulate; his manner not servilely confined to the pedantic stiffness of some, or the affectation of others; in a word he sung like a Gentleman; and the sound, as Milton elegantly expresses it, 'Floated the Wings of silence.' This is not intended (by doing justice to Mr D. B@@y) to depreciate any....I am told he has applied to Mr Beard, with what success I know not, [hopes he will be one of the new singers at Covent Garden] signed T. S."]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Orlando-Davis; Duke-Aickin; Frederick-Palmer; Jacques-Lee; Oliver-Johnston; Le Beu-M'George; Amiens-the Gentleman who sung in the Conscious Lovers; Charles-Keen; Corin-Castle; Adam-Hurst; Denis-Mahon; William-Hamilton; Silvius-Quick; Touchstone-Shuter; Celia-Mrs M'George; Phebe-Miss Madden; Audrey-Mrs Worley; Rosalind-Mrs Dancer.
Cast
Role: Amiens Actor: the Gentleman who sung in the Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

3125
22 October 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 14 Jan. 1763.] Dined at Terry's. At Davies read the principal parts of As You Like It. Got into the Pit before the Play began. Stood all the time of the performance. Mrs Dancer played Rosalind with great propriety, looks very well in boys clothes...Caelia, with the Cockoo, a delightful song (not in the play) by Mrs Baddeley, being her 1st appearance in that character. This excellent comedy so well performed gave me great pleasure. End Act I, Hearts of Oak, a pretty dance by Mrs King, Giorgi, etc. The Entertainment was Harlequin's Invasion, with a prologue spoken by King. This triumph of Shakespeare over folly is one of the best and most magnificent Pantomimes and not mere dumb show (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Others Actor: _Messink.
Role: The Dances Actor: Duquesney, Sg and Sga Giorgi, Miss Collett.

Dance: I: Hearts of Oak-Giorgi, Mrs King