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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.

2001
02 July 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Dramatic Proverb with Songs [1st time; mf 2, by Charles Dibdin, based on the unpublished L'Aveugle Pretendu, by Louis Francois Archambault, dit Dorvigny. MS: Larpent 594; not published; synopsis of plot in European Magazine, July 1782, p. 67]. The Music by Dr Arnold. 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: None are so Blind as Those Who Won't See

2002
06 July 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Medea and Jason [also announced on playbill of 5 July] cannot be performed on account of the Indisposition of Mme Dagueville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Cast
Role: Sir William Douglas Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Cast
Role: Sir Felix Friendly Actor: Wilson

Dance: As17820613

2003
22 August 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Cast
Role: Sir William Douglas Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Cast
Role: Landlord of the Horns at Highgate Actor: Wilson
Role: Giant of the Causeway Actor: Master Brett
Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's Causeway Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17820817

2004
31 August 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Cast
Role: Sir William Douglas Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Cast
Role: Landlord of the Horns at Highgate Actor: Wilson
Role: Giant of the Causeway Actor: Master Brett
Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's Causeway Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17820826

2005
07 October 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act II of mainpicce, as17820917; In afterpiece, as17820921

2006
19 October 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Cast
Role: Sir Andrew Ague Actor: Cheek-Dodd
Role: Sir Toby Belch Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Sir William Worthy Actor: Aickin

2007
29 October 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Smith; Sir Brilliant Fashion-Dodd; William-Baddeley; Sideboard-Burton; John-Phillimore; Sir Bashful Constant-King; Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Bulkley; Muslin-Miss Pope; Lady Constant-Mrs Brereton; Mignionet-Miss Hale; Widow Belmour (with a song)-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Sir Brilliant Fashion Actor: Dodd
Role: Sir Bashful Constant Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Sir William Worthy Actor: Aickin

2008
16 November 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Thomas Hull; also ascribed to Samuel Jackson Pratt. Author of Prologue unknown. Epilogue by S. J. Pratt. {Miscellanies, 1785,1,271). MS: Larpent 603; not published]: With a grand Masquerade Scene, and Decorations incident to the Piece. Receipts: #234 17s. (223/13/0; 11/1/6; 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Interview

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Sir William Worthy Actor: Aickin

2009
28 November 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Alchymist

Cast
Role: Sir Epicure Mammon Actor: Chaplin

Dance: As17821003

2010
29 November 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [not acted since 3 Oct. 1776]. The Conscious Lovers, and the new Farce of The Best Bidder, announced for to-morrow, are obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Parsons. "We left the Theatre with the precise Impressions a Theatre ought to leave--We were perhaps more good, at any Rate certainly we felt more fond of Goodness" (Public Advertiser, 30 Nov.). "Mrs Siddons, in the third act of the Fair Penitent, was so far affected, with assuming the mingled passions of pride, fear, anger, and conscious guilt, that I might appeal to the spectators, whether, in spite of the rouge which the actress is obliged to put on, some paleness did not shew itself in her countenance" (Davies, II, 56). Receipts: #262 17s. (247/2/0; 15/10/0; 0/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Sir William Worthy Actor: Aickin

2011
05 December 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Smith; Aim well-Brereton; Foigard-Moody; Bonniface-Aickin; Sir Charles Freeman-R. Palmer; Sullen-Wrighten; Gibbet-Wright; Scrub-Dodd; Cherry-Miss Pope; Dorinda-Mrs Brereton; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Love; Gipsey-Miss Simson; Mrs Sullen-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Sir Charles Freeman Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Sir William Worthy Actor: Aickin

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece, as17820917

2012
08 January 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Cast
Role: Sir John Restless Actor: Lee Lewes
Role: Sir William Belmont Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

2013
16 January 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Castle of Andalusia; afterpiece of BARNABY Brittle, both announced on playbill of 15 Jan.] Receipts: #320 15s. 6d. (315/14/0; 5/1/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Cast
Role: Sir John Restless Actor: Lee Lewes
Role: Sir William Belmont Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Cast
Role: Another Irishman Actor: Mahon

Dance: As17821231

2014
29 January 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Samuel Jackson Pratt. Prologue and Epilogue probably by the author]. Receipts: #210 7s. (190/11; 19/11; 0/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Vanity

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by King, Palmer, Dodd, Brereton, Baddeley, R. Palmer, Parsons; Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Wrighten, Miss Phillips, Miss Farren. [Cast from text in the author's Miscellanies (T. Becket, 1785), Vol. n: Sir Hercules Caustic-King; Sighwell-Palmer; Lord Frolic-Dodd; Valentine Onslow-Brereton; Secondhand-Baddeley; Scrape-R. Palmer; Alderman Ingot-Parsons; Scurry-Phillimore; Servants-Chaplin, Kenny, Alfred, Spencer; Widow Wherret-Mrs Bulkley; Lady Blaze-Mrs Hopkins; Pucker-Mrs Wrighten; Helena Caustic-Miss Phillips; Ophelia Wyndham-Miss Farren.] Prologue spoken by Palmer. Epilogue spoken by Miss Farren . Prologue spoken by Palmer. Epilogue spoken by Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: : Sir Hercules Caustic Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Sir William Worthy Actor: Aickin

2015
31 January 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece, as17821003; End of Act II, as17820917

2016
06 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Clandestine Marriage [announced on playbill of 4 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Parsons. Afterpiece: To conclude with a perspective Representation of the Camp at Cox-Heath [see 15 Oct. 1778]. Receipts: #145 4s. (99/7/0; 45/4/6; 0/0/0; tickets not come in: 0/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performance Comment: Gage-Waldron; O'Daub-Moody; Mons. Bluard-Baddeley; Sir Harry Bouquet-R. Palmer; William (1st rime)-Barrymore; Serjeant Drill (1st time)-Staunton; Nancy-Mrs Wells; Nell-Mrs Wrighten. The other Characters by Burton, Fawcett, Wrighten, Wright, Chaplin, Kenny, Phillimore, Norris, Alfred, &c.; Miss Wright, Miss Simson, Miss Collett . Miss Wright, Miss Simson, Miss Collett .
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Bouquet Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Wrighten. The other Characters by Burton, Fawcett, Wrighten, Wright, Chaplin, Kenny, Phillimore, Norris, Alfred, &c.
Related Works
Related Work: First Faults Author(s): Maria Theresa De Camp

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece, as17821003; End of Act II, as17821016

2017
28 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Mainpiece: Not acted these 12 years [acted 6 Apr. 1772. In mainpiece the playbill assigns Fainlove to Miss Collett, but on the Kemble playbill her name is deleted; the substitute name has been cut by the binder. In afterpiece Miss Collett is retained as Patie, but her name is again deleted, and a MS annotation substitutes Miss M. Stageldoir's]. Receipts: #220 7s.(67/10; 26/1; 0/2; tickets: 126/14) (charge: #107 9s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Performance Comment: Humphry Gubbin-Dodd; Sir Harry Gubbin-Baddeley; Mr Tipkin-Parsons; Pounce-Aickin; Clerimont Sen.-Packer; Capt. Clerimont-Brereton; Mrs Clerimont-Mrs Ward; Aunt-Mrs Hopkins; Fainlove-?; Jenny-Miss Tidswell; Biddy Tipkin-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Gubbin Actor: Baddeley

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Sir William Worthy Actor: Aickin

Dance: As17821214

2018
07 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Sir Solomon Sadlife Actor: Parsons
Role: Sir Harry Atall Actor: Fawcett

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Sir William Worthy Actor: Aickin

Dance: End of Act iv of mainpiece The Butterfly, as17830426

2019
09 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Sir William Worthy Actor: Aickin

Dance: As17830505

2020
23 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Sir William Worthy Actor: Aickin

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

2021
11 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Cast
Role: Head Boy of the Marine Society Actor: Master Edwin
Role: Officer in the Camp Actor: Wood
Role: Emperor of the Quacks Actor: Bannister Jun.
Related Works
Related Work: The Genius of Nonsense Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece The Nosegay by Mr and Miss Burn [and see17830604

2022
14 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Performance Comment: As17830610 but omitted: Goddess of Health [i.e. Miss Hooke acted only the Genius of Nonsense] .
Cast
Role: Head Boy of the Marine Society Actor: Master Edwin
Role: Officer in the Camp Actor: Wood
Role: Emperor of the Quacks Actor: Bannister Jun.
Related Works
Related Work: The Genius of Nonsense Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17830611

2023
18 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [Miss Logan is identified on playbill of 28 June 1784.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: As17830611

2024
25 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: As17830611

2025
03 July 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17830702