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12595 results for: Keyword - Ann Williams
We found 11031 matches on Author, 1837 matches on Performance Comments, 454 matches on Event Comments, 56 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

8301
02 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: and following the song A Scene from The Electio Actor: Bannister, Gaudry, Mrs Love
Role: Poor Thomas Day Actor: Bannister, Gaudry, Suett
Role: Blow high Actor: Bannister
Role: To conclude with How merrily we live Actor: Bannister, Gaudry, Mrs Cargill
Role: Dick Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Cast
Role: Russet Actor: Bannister

Song: Between Acts 1st piece: a song-Miss Wright

8302
03 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free Mason

8303
07 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: A Fete A Medley

Performance Comment: As17810425, but Blow high-_; Dance of Sailors-_; Beviamo tuttre-_; Italian laughing song-_; Dance of Anticks-_; Dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses-_; How merrily we live-_; Hecate-_; SCENES I and II as SCENES I and II in A Fete, 25 Apr. SCENE III. A Storm and Shipwreck. Stand to your guns my hearts of oak-Bannister; SCENE THE LAST. An Irish Fair. Teague's Journey to London through Coventry-Moody; Dancing-the Miss Stageldoirs.
Cast
Role: Stand to your guns my hearts of oak Actor: Bannister
Role: Poor Thomas Day Actor: Bannister, Gaudry, Suett
Role: Blow high Actor: Bannister
Role: To conclude with How merrily we live Actor: Bannister, Gaudry, Mrs Cargill

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

8304
07 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farmers Return From London

Afterpiece Title: All for Love

Related Works
Related Work: Loves Contrivance, or, Le Medecin malgre Lui Author(s): Susanna Centlivre

Afterpiece Title: Phusimimesis or Resemblances of Nature

Performance Comment: SCENE I. Morning, a Landscape. The Rising of the Sun. Hunters preparing for the Chace. When Phoebus the tops of the hills, as17810425; SCENE II. A View of the Rock of Gibraltar, with the Fleet sailing to its Relief; The Storm-Reinhold; [SCENE III. Thunderstorm, Tempest and Shipwreck. Stand to your guns my hearts of oak-Bannister [of dl]; [SCENE IV. A Town Besieged (Painted by Carver; taken from Harlequin Every-where). The Enemies' Attack; the Destruction of the Fort; and an Engagement of the Troops, represented by Moving Figures. O what a charming thing's a battle-Cubitt; [After which a Grand Transparency, representing the famous Battle of Cressy, with the taking of the Bohemian standard by Edward the Black Prince, painted by Cipriani. To conclude with a trio-Davies, Mrs Morton, Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Stand to your guns my hearts of oak Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace or Harlequin Skeleton

Song: End II 2nd piece: The Huntsman's Sweet Halloo, as17810226; 4th piece: The Early Horn-Cubitt; Scene I: When Phoebus the tops of the hills, as17810425

8305
09 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Chit Chat

Afterpiece Title: Whod have Thought It

Related Works
Related Work: Second Thoughts are Best Author(s): Hannah Cowley

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Sports of the Green, as17810501

Song: As17810115

8306
14 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Related Works
Related Work: A School for Grey-Beards; or, The Mourning Bride Author(s): Hannah Cowley

Afterpiece Title: Phusimimesis

Cast
Role: Stand to your guns my hearts of oak Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton i

Cast
Role: Stand to your guns my hearts of oak Actor: Bannister

8307
15 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: Poor Thomas Day Actor: Bannister, Gaudry, Suett
Role: Blow high Actor: Bannister
Role: To conclude with How merrily we live Actor: Bannister, Gaudry, Mrs Cargill

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performance Comment: Captain Wilson-Bannister; Captain Greville-DuBellamy; Tipple (1st time)-Suett; Justice Benbow-Packer; Kilderkin-Chaplin; Putty-Helme; Ned-Phillimore; Major Benbow-Parsons; Eliza-Mrs Cargill.
Cast
Role: Captain Wilson Actor: Bannister

Dance: Scene the Last: The Butterfly, as17800921

8308
18 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: As17801023, but Lady Anne-Mrs Sharp; Dutchess of York-Miss Platt (of cg).
Cast
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Mrs Sharp

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Cast
Role: Russet Actor: Bannister

Dance: End: The Butterfly, as17800921

Entertainment: Monologue. After Dancing: Bucks have at ye All-Master Pulley; End afterpiece: an Epilogue-Master Benson

8309
18 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Related Works
Related Work: The Belle's Stratagem Author(s): Hannah Cowley

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: IV: Minuet de la Cour en Quatre-Holloway, Holland, Miss Francis, Miss Matthews; a Minuet-Harris, Miss Younge; End IV: a new Pastoral Dance-Harris, Miss Matthews

Ballet: End: St. David's Day. As17810501

Monologue: End II: The Humours of New-Market; with the Poney Races. Jockeys-Harris, Holland, Ratchford, Holloway; Ladies-Miss Besford, Miss Francis, Miss Matthews

8310
19 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Cast
Role: Anna Actor: Mrs Sharp

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Music: End: a favorite trio performed on a guittar (composed by Giardini) for a violin, guittar and Violoncello,-Crawford

8311
22 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Dance: As17810402

8312
23 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Farmers Return from London

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17810426

8313
12 June 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement Or An Adventure At Margate

Performance Comment: Characters by Bannister, Wilson, Edwin, Wood, Lamash, Massey, Baddeley, Palmer, Mrs Webb, Miss Hale, Miss Harper. Cast adjusted from text (T. Cadell, 1781): Surat-Bannister; Sir James Juniper-Wilson; Etiquette-Edwin; Melville-Wood; Spruce-Lamash; Crab-Massey; Cathartic-Baddeley; Shuffle-Palmer; Lady Juniper-Mrs Webb; Fidget-Miss Hale; Amelia-Miss Harper; Occasional Prologue-Palmer.
Cast
Role: Surat Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Cast
Role: Cadwallader Actor: Bannister
Role: Poet Actor: Bannister Jun.

Dance: End I: Dance-Master Byrn, Miss Byrn

8314
17 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Of Shakespeare

Performance Comment: ACT I. Filial Piety, as17810807 ACT II. Parental Tenderness, as17810807, but Gloster-Miss Francis; [ACT III. Ambition, as17810807 ACT IV. Love, in the Tomb Scenev in Romeo and Juliet [parts of V. i and iii]. Romeo-Bannister Jun.; Friar Lawrence-Gardner; Capulet-Webb; Apothecary-Barrett; Paris-R. Palmer; Montague-Massey; Juliet-Mrs Cargill (1st appearance in Tragedy).
Cast
Role: Romeo Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Hamlet Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Young Actor

Performance Comment: In which various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical,-Bannister, Bannister Jun.
Cast
Role: Vocal and Rhetorical, Actor: Bannister, Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Bannister, Wilson, Wood, Blissett, Massey, Ledger, Edwin, Miss Harper. Cast adjusted from playbill of 28 June 1780: Captain Wilson-Bannister; Major Benbow-Wilson; Captain Greville-Wood; Justice Benbow-Blissett; Kilderkin-Massey; Ned-Ledger; Tipple-Edwin; Eliza-Miss Harper.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Bannister, Wilson, Wood, Blissett, Massey, Ledger, Edwin, Miss Harper. Cast adjusted from playbill of 28 June 1780: Captain Wilson-Bannister
Role: Captain Wilson Actor: Bannister

Entertainment: Cento, as17810807

Cast
Role: Actor: Bannister Jun.

Song: End I of 1st piece: Admiral Benbow (in the character of a Sailor)-Bannister; End III: Moderation and Alteration-Edwin

8315
18 September 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: King Richard-Smith; Richmond-Palmer; Buckingham-Aickin; Tressel-Farren; Catcsby-Packer; Lord Stanley-Chaplin; Norfolk-Fawcett; Lieutenant of the Tower-R. Palmer; Ractcliffe-Wright; Lord Mayor-Phillimore; Prince Edward-Master Pulley; Duke of York-Master Langrish; King Henry-Bensley; Lady Anne-Mrs Sharp; Dutchess of York-Mrs Booth; Queen-Mrs Hopkins .
Cast
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Mrs Sharp

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performance Comment: Dick-Bannister Jun.; Gargle-Wrighten; Simon-Burton; Watchman-Fawcett; Spouters-R. Palmer, Holcroft, Griffiths, Phillimore, Norris, Williams, Helmc, &c; Wingate-Baddeley; Charlotte-Miss Simson .
Cast
Role: Dick Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Spouters Actor: R. Palmer, Holcroft, Griffiths, Phillimore, Norris, Williams, Helmc, &c

8316
24 September 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Marriage Act

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene incident to the Play and a Minuet by Aldridge and Miss Besford. [These were included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Song: End of Act iv of mainpiece Juliet's Funeral Procession with the Solemn Dirge. Vocal Parts by Mattocks, Reinhold, Davies, Robson, J. Wilson, Baker, Darley, Doyle, Simpkinson; Miss Harper, Mrs Martyr, Miss Morris, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Kennedy

8317
01 October 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free Mason

Song: As17810924

8318
08 October 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free Mason

Song: As17810924

8319
13 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Principal Bacchanals Actor: Bannister, Du-Bellamy, &c

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17811004

8320
15 October 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free Mason

Song: As17810924

8321
24 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Cast
Role: Grimbald Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Song: As17811022

8322
05 November 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Smith; Macduff-Brereton; Duncan-Packer; Ross-Aickin; Malcolm-R. Palmer; Donalbain-Master Pulley; Banquo-Farren; Hecate-Bannister; Witches-Parsons, Moody, Baddeley; Lady Macduff-Mrs Sharp; Lady Macbeth-Miss Sherry .
Cast
Role: Hecate Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Song: Mainpiece: With the original Music composed by Matthew Locke, with full Chorusses and additional Accompaniments, by Bannister, Williams, Chaplin, Fawcett, Holcroft, Phillimore, Helme; Miss Simson, Miss Barnes, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Granger, the Miss Stageldoirs, Miss Collett

8323
06 November 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

8324
06 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill. The playbill retains Henderson, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Wroughton's.]. Account-Book, 19 Nov.: Paid Holcroft in full for his [two] Benefit Nights for Duplicity #100. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duplicity

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

8325
08 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17811101; End of Act IV The Arcadian Festival by Aldridge and Miss Besford