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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Dan Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Dan 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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12329 results for: Keyword - Dan Williams
We found 10791 matches on Author, 1671 matches on Performance Comments, 443 matches on Event Comments, 66 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

7376
28 April 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jacket

Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Atkins, Mrs Sutton.

Dance: II: A New Pastoral Dance-Lariviere, Mrs Sutton; IV: Comic Dance-Lariviere, Mrs Sutton; V: (By Particular Desire) The Louvre, Minuet-Froment, Mrs Sutton (his scholar)

7377
29 April 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: with Dancing Actor: Giorgi, Lauchery, Mrs Sutton

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: III: The Pirates, as17750422

7378
01 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Cautherly; Euphrosyne-Mrs Barree, first appearance this stage; Spirit-Davies; Brothers-Lamash, Wheeler; Lady (With Song, Sweet Echo)-Mrs Baddeley; Bacchanals-Vernon, Bannister, Fawcett, Kear, Legg, Carpenter, Blanchard, Master Blanchard; Bacchants-Mrs Davies, Mrs Love; Pastoral Nymph, Sabrina-Mrs Scott; In Act II, a Dance- incident to the piece.
Cast
Role: a Dance Actor: incident to the piece.

Dance: I: The Grand Provencalle Dance, as17750202

7379
02 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Smith, Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [The change in benefit piece from Cymbeline and the Wish remains unexplained. (See 22 and 27 April.) Larpent MS 387 is the Wish, scene a Sultan's Gardenv. Parts: Ammath; Nourjahad; Mandana; Zelia and Sanbeg. It seems never to have been performed.] Paid licenses for Bob Ton & Inflexible Captive, & Book #4 5s. 6d. Receipts: #119 1s. Charges: #67 12s. Profits to Mrs Smith: #51 9s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Cast
Role: Dancing Actor: Como, Atkins, Giorgi, Sga Crespi.

Dance: II: The Pirates, as17750422

7380
09 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Related Works
Related Work: St. Patrick's Day; or, The Scheming Lieutenant Author(s): Richard B. Sheridan

Entertainment: End: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Massey

Dance: After Entertainment: The Humours of Blackwall, as17750429

7381
12 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Contrast; or, The Jew and Married Courtezan

7382
12 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Daguville (ballet master) and Helme (principal dancer). The Englishman in Paris deferr'd on account of Woodward's Indisposition

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: A New Comic Dance call'dThe Country Macaroni Assembly-Daguville, Daguville's Scholar; in which (by Desire) Minuet-Helme, Sga Vidini; End Opera: A New Dance call'd The British Bacchanalian , or The Hop-Pickers, an Interlude of Singing and Dancing,-Helme, Sga Vidini; in which The Wooden Shoe Dance- introduced by Daguville

Ballet: II: A New Grand Historical Dance of Warriors, call'd Boadicea Queen of Britain. Queen-Mrs Daguville; her Two Daughters-Miss Ross, Miss Armstrong (Scholars to Daguville); Helme, Daguville

7383
15 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: III: Sg Giorgi's Scholars

7384
17 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Cast
Role: With The Postillion Dance incidental to the Actor: Giorgi, Atkins, Mrs Sutton
Role: Concluding with Country Dance Actor: .

Song: III: The Favourite Song of Gramachree Molly-Mrs Wrighten

7385
18 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: With a Grand Dance of Fantastic Spirits Actor:
Role: The Other Dances Actor: Como, Giorgi, Sga Crespi.

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

7386
18 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: II: A Minuet-Daguville, Miss Macklin; End: The Vintage Festival, as17741007

7387
20 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus-Lewis; Jachimo-Bensley, first time; Cloten-Booth; Cymbeline-L'Estrange, first time; Pisanio-Wroughton; Bellarius-Clarke; Guiderius-DuBellamy; Arviragus-Whitefield; Lucius-Fearon; French Gent.-Davis; Philario-Chaplin; Doctor-Thompson; Queen-Mrs Hull; Imogen-Mrs Lessingham; In Act II a Masquerade Scene-; with dancing and Singing-Mrs Baker (playbill).
Cast
Role: with dancing and Singing Actor: Mrs Baker

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: The Enchantress, as17750201

7388
23 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: V: The Pirates, as17750422

7389
25 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Related Works
Related Work: St. Patrick's Day; or, The Scheming Lieutenant Author(s): Richard B. Sheridan

7390
26 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: V: The Pirates, as17750422

7391
27 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: The Pilgrim, as17750503

7392
29 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: III: A New Comic Dance -Langrish, as17750429 End: The Enchantress, as17750201

7393
01 June 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Related Works
Related Work: St. Patrick's Day; or, The Scheming Lieutenant Author(s): Richard B. Sheridan

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17741202

7394
14 July 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eldred

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: Tambourine Dance-

7395
07 August 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: The Tambourine Dance-

7396
23 September 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: The Theatrical Candidates

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

7397
25 September 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day; or, The Scheming Lieutenant

Related Works
Related Work: St. Patrick's Day; or, The Scheming Lieutenant Author(s): Richard B. Sheridan

7398
28 September 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Theatrical Candidates

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

7399
30 September 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Hawthorne-Vernon; Justice Woodcock-Parsons; Sir William-Aickin; Eustace-Davies; Young Meadows-Dodd; Hodge-King; Margery-Mrs Wrighten, frist time; Lucinda-Mrs Jewell, first appearance on this stage; Rosetta-Mrs Smith; Deborah-Mrs Love; in I, a Country Dance incident to the piece-.
Cast
Role: a Country Dance incident to the piece Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Theatrical Candidates

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Performance Comment: Griskin-Parsons; Jemmy Twinkle-Whitfield; Sotherton-Lamash; Cupid (with song)-Mas. Blanchard; Landlady-Mrs Love; Miss Griskin-Miss Jarratt; Chamberlain-Burton; Filagree-Mrs Bradshaw; Miss Flack-Mrs Davies; Chambermaid-Miss Platt; With a Postillion Dance incidental to the piece,-Giorgi, Lauchery, Mrs Sutton; To conclude with a Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: With a Postillion Dance incidental to the p Actor: Giorgi, Lauchery, Mrs Sutton
Role: To conclude with a Country Dance Actor: .

7400
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

Related Works
Related Work: St. Patrick's Day; or, The Scheming Lieutenant Author(s): Richard B. Sheridan