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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "the Sir Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "the Sir Williams")') 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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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.

1926
06 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Mr Baker
Role: other Characters Actor: Wewitzer, Jones, Smith, Thompson, Stevens, Ledger, Mrs White, Mrs Poussin.
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

1927
25 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Public Advertiser, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister at Starzaker's, the Upper End of Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #246 12s. 6d. [77.0.0; 13.1.6; 0.10.0; tickets: 156.1.0) (charge: #65 17s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End II: The Sailors' Revels-Blurton

1928
02 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: Whittle-Parsons; Sir Patrick O'Neale-Moody; Nephew-Davies; Bates-Baddeley; Thomas-Burton; Kecksey-Dodd; Widow Brady (with an Epilogue Song)-Miss Walpole (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Sir Patrick O'Neale Actor: Moody

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771111; End: Hornpipe-Miss Walpole; End I afterpiece: The Sailors' Revels, as17780425

1929
23 May 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Cast
Role: The Squire Actor: Lamash

Dance: As17780522

1930
03 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin.

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Related Works
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17780529

1931
10 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Afterpiece [1st time; INT 1, by Horace Walpole. Text 1st Published in Walpole's Works, vol. II (G. G. and J. Robinson and J. Edwards, 1798)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin.

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb

Dance: As17780518

1932
22 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin.

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Dance: End II: The Merry Lasses, as17780518; End: The Gardeners, as17780618

1933
03 July 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin.

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Dance: End II: Tambourine Dance-(see17780624; End: The Gardeners, as17780618

1934
16 February 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: End II: new Dance, The Burgomaster-Aldridge, Master Jackson

1935
01 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Dance: End II: As17790225

1936
08 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Dance: As17790216

1937
13 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Medley, announced on playbill of 11 Mar.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Cast
Role: Sir Charles Racket Actor: Lewis

Dance: As17790216

1938
09 June 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Parsons not being sufficiently recovered The Spanish Barber and The Tailors [both announced on playbill of 7 June] are deferred till Friday. Afterpiece: A Modern Operatical, Sentimental, Crying Comedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Performance Comment: Butler-Edwin; The Squire-Lamash; Mrs Candy-Mrs Love; Polly Pattens-Mrs Jewell.
Cast
Role: The Squire Actor: Lamash

Dance: End II: Tambourine Dance, as17790602 End: a new dance, The Country Wake-Master and Miss Byrn

1939
14 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2]: Written by the Author of Tony Lumpkin in Town [John O'Keeffe. Text (1st authorized) published in Cumberland's British Theatre, Vol. XXXI]. The Music and Overture composed by Dr Arnold [with airs adapted from Philidor and Guglielmi (Public Advertiser, 17 Aug.)]. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Cast
Role: Sir William Douglas Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Performance Comment: The Characters by Parsons, Edwin, Wood, Baddeley, Lamash, Jackson, Stevens, Kenny, Bannister, Mrs Lefevre, Miss Harper. Cast from Public Advertiser, 17 Aug.: Cranky-Parsons; Bowkitt-Edwin; Bouquet-Wood; Vinegar-Baddeley; Idle-Lamash; Orator Mum-Jackson; John-Stevens; Signor Arionelli-Bannister; Dolce-Mrs Lefevre; Cecilia-Miss Harper; Kenny. Kenny.

Dance: As17790610

1940
04 December 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Cast
Role: Sir William Woodley Actor: King
Role: Sir Harry Granger Actor: Lamash
Role: Mrs Williams Actor: Mrs Colles
Related Works
Related Work: Feudal Times; or, The Banquet Gallery Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Performance Comment: Byron-Vernon; Sir Harry Muff-Dodd; General Worry-Parsons; Spy-Baddeley; Gardeners-Fawcett, Chaplin, Holcroft; Jenny-Mrs Wrighten; Narcissa-Mrs Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Muff Actor: Dodd

1941
06 December 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #146 5s. 6d. (113.6.0; 32.11.0; 0.8.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Performance Comment: As17791204, but Epilogue-_[and thereafter].and thereafter].
Cast
Role: Sir William Woodley Actor: King
Role: Sir Harry Granger Actor: Lamash
Role: Mrs Williams Actor: Mrs Colles
Related Works
Related Work: Feudal Times; or, The Banquet Gallery Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

1942
07 December 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Cast
Role: Sir William Woodley Actor: King
Role: Sir Harry Granger Actor: Lamash
Role: Mrs Williams Actor: Mrs Colles
Related Works
Related Work: Feudal Times; or, The Banquet Gallery Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders Of Derbyshire

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Wright, Grimaldi, Waldron, R. Palmer, Burton, Chaplin, Gaudry, Miss Simson, Miss Abrams, Miss G. Abrams, Mrs Love, Mrs Gaudry, Miss Kirby, Mrs Bradshaw, the Miss Stageldoirs, Miss Collett.

1943
08 December 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Cast
Role: Sir William Woodley Actor: King
Role: Sir Harry Granger Actor: Lamash
Role: Mrs Williams Actor: Mrs Colles
Related Works
Related Work: Feudal Times; or, The Banquet Gallery Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performance Comment: Lovel-Lamash; Sir Harry's Servant-Dodd; Duke's Servant-Palmer; Freeman-Fawcett; Lady Charlotte-Mrs Colles; Lady Bab-Mrs Davies; Kitty (with a song)-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Sir Harry's Servant Actor: Dodd

Dance: II afterpiece: Mock Minuet-Palmer, Miss Pope

1944
09 December 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. The Stratagem and The Critic [both announced on playbill of 8 Dec.] are unavoidably obliged to be deferred till to-morrow. Receipts: #106 15s. 6d. (75.11.0; 30.6.6; 0.18.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Cast
Role: Sir William Woodley Actor: King
Role: Sir Harry Granger Actor: Lamash
Role: Mrs Williams Actor: Mrs Colles
Related Works
Related Work: Feudal Times; or, The Banquet Gallery Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: o's The Dupe

1945
05 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every-where

Dance: As17791229

1946
26 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every-where

1947
01 February 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Cast
Role: Sir William Woodley Actor: King
Role: Sir Harry Granger Actor: Lamash
Role: Mrs Williams Actor: Mrs Colles
Related Works
Related Work: Feudal Times; or, The Banquet Gallery Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Wright, Grimaldi, Delpini, Burton, Wrighten, Philimore, Williams, Norris, Miss Kirby, Miss Collett

1948
17 February 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Cast
Role: Sir William Woodley Actor: King
Role: Sir Harry Granger Actor: Lamash
Role: Mrs Williams Actor: Mrs Colles
Related Works
Related Work: Feudal Times; or, The Banquet Gallery Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Wright, Grimaldi, Delpini, Burton, Wrighten, Philimore, Williams, Norris, Miss Kirby, Miss Collett

1949
21 February 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #186 5s. (140.12; 27.10; 0.12; tickets: 17.11) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Cast
Role: Sir William Woodley Actor: King
Role: Sir Harry Granger Actor: Lamash
Role: Mrs Williams Actor: Mrs Colles
Related Works
Related Work: Feudal Times; or, The Banquet Gallery Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Wright, Grimaldi, Delpini, Burton, Wrighten, Philimore, Williams, Norris, Miss Kirby, Miss Collett

1950
14 April 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: End II: As17791013