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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.

8626
26 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day; Or, The Marriage Of Figaro

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

8627
28 October 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: The Country Girl Actor: Mrs Jordan

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Crouch. The rest of the Vocal Parts by Williames, Danby, Fawcett, Wilson, Chaplin, Alfred, Newbold

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece The Market-Day [originally entitled The Market], as17851024

8628
29 October 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Song: As17851001, but added: Danby; omitted: Miss George

8629
01 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: The Country Girl Actor: Mrs Jordan

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Dance: As17851028

8630
01 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

8631
02 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

8632
02 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Masquerade Dance incident to the Play; End of mainpiece The Wapping Landlady by Blurton, Rayner, Miss Besford

8633
03 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau; Or, Our Way In France

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

Dance: End of mainpiece The Wapping Landlady, as17851102

8634
07 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron

Dance: In afterpiece, as17851018

8635
08 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

8636
08 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: As17851103

8637
09 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Pope; Governor-Davies; Blandford-Hull; Captain Driver-Fearon; Stanmore-Cubitt; Jack Stanmore-Palmer; Hotman-Thompson; Daniel-Quick; Aboan-Aickin; Charlotte Weldon-Mrs Bates; Lucy-Mrs Lewis; Widow Lackit-Mrs Webb; Imoinda-Mrs Inchbald .
Cast
Role: Daniel Actor: Quick

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: As17851103

8638
10 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17851017

8639
10 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece The Recruiting Serjeant [performers not listed (see17851007)]; End of mainpiece new dance, The Piping Pedlar, by Byrn and Mrs Goodwin

8640
11 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "The great powers of Mrs Jordan cannot be better displayed than in the wonderful contrast of her Country Girl and Viola. In one all archness and vivacity; in the other serious, gentle, tender and sentimental" (Public Advertiser, 16 Nov.). [In afterpiece the playbill retains Parsons as Sir Anthony Halfwit, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Wilson's. "Parsons was taken suddenly ill & J. Wilson read his part" (MS annotation on British Museum playbill, in Harris, 11).] Receipts: #108 12s. (79/11/0; 28/13/6; 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Performance Comment: Sir Andrew Ague-cheek-Dodd; Sir Toby Belch-Palmer; Orsino-Staunton; Sebastian-Bannister Jun.; Fabian-R. Palmer; Antonio-Wrighten; Clown (with the original Epilogue Song)-Suett; Malvolio-Bensley; Viola-Mrs Jordan (1st appearance in that character); Maria-Mrs Brereton; Olivia (with songs)-Mrs Crouch .
Cast
Role: Viola Actor: Mrs Jordan

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Dance: As17851103

8641
11 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

Dance: End of mainpiece The Piping Pedlar, as17851110

8642
12 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Dance: End of mainpiece The Piping Pedlar, as17851110, but added: Ratchford

8643
14 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery

Song: End of Act IV of mainpiece Juliet's Funeral Procession with the Solemn Dirge. Vocal Parts by Johnstone, Brett, Meadows, Cubitt, Darley, Doyle, Pemberton; Mrs Bannister, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Miss Orme, Mrs Gray, Miss Francis, Miss Cranfield, Mrs Kennedy

8644
15 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Dance: As17851112

8645
16 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Cast
Role: Viola Actor: Mrs Jordan

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

8646
16 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Dance: As17851112

8647
17 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery

Song: As17851114

8648
18 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 1 Jan. 1781]. A Dramatic Entertainment of Singing, Dancing, and Dialogue, in Honour of Shakespeare. In which will be introduced a Pageant, the music by Dibdin. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "The Jubilee is now worn out and of no repute" (Public Advertiser, 21 Nov.). [For a complete account of the original production in 1769 see Christian Deelman, The Great Shakespeare Jubilee, 1964, pp. 280-86.] Receipts: #241 9s. (199/16/0; 39/8/6; 2/4/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: Cast not listed. [Cast from General Evening Post, 19 Nov.; Morning Post, 19 Nov.; Public Advertiser, 7 and 27 Dec. 1785; Morning Post, 22 Dec. 1786: Bumpkin-Parsons; Irishman at Stratford-Moody; Country Girl-Mrs Wrighten. In Pageant: Cupid-Master Canlets; Iachimo-Palmer; Malvolio and Posthumus-Bensley; Touchstone-King; Richard III-Kemble; Romeo-Bannister Jun.; Hamlet-R. Palmer; Sir Hugh Evans-Parsons; Doctor Cains-Baddeley; Sir Andrew Aguecheek-Waldron; Lear-Wrighten; FalstafT-Chaplin; Henry V-Barrymore; Coriolanus-Phillimore; Edgar-Dodd; Macbeth-Williames; Antony-Staunton; Tragic Muse-Mrs Siddons [whose "car was fitted up exactly in the stile of the picture of the Tragic Music by Sir Joshua Reynolds"]; Comic Muse-Mrs Cuyler; Lady Macbeth-Miss Kemble; Beatrice-Miss Pope; Volumnia-Mrs Brereton; Cleopatra-Mrs Wilson; Rosalind-Mrs Jordan; Queen in Richard III-Mrs Hopkins; Cordelia-Miss Collins; Venus-Mrs Crouch. Vocal Parts by Bannister, Dignum, Suett, Chapman, Fawcett.] hathi. hathi.
Cast
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Jordan
Related Works
Related Work: The Goldsmiths Jubilee; or, London's Triumph: Containing, A Description of the several Pageants: On which are Represented, Emblematical Figures, Artful Pieces of Architecture, and Rural Dancing: with the Speeches Spoken on each Pageant. Author(s): Thomas Jordan

8649
18 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Dance: As17851103

8650
19 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Song: As17851029