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15862 results for: Keyword - Henry Williams
We found 13652 matches on Author, 2263 matches on Performance Comments, 1264 matches on Performance Title, 791 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

13701
29 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Lovers Quarrels

Related Works
Related Work: Cephalus and Procris: With The Mistakes Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter of Naples

Performance Comment: Henry (the Deserter)-H. Johnston; [Simpkin-$Bologna Jun. (see18000527)] Louisa's Father-Lewiss; Jailer-Hawtin; Country Lads-Platt, Blurton, Wilde, L. Bologna, Curties, Lee; Skirmish-Delpini; Jenny-Mrs Mills (1st appearance in that character); Louisa's Mother-Mrs Whitmore; Lasses-Ms Watts, Ms Follett, Ms Bologna, Ms Cox, Ms L. Bologna, Ms Norton, Ms Carne; Louisa-Mrs H. Johnston (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Henry Actor: H. Johnston

Entertainment: Vaudeville In course Evening: an entire New Song, The Seaman's Lamentation for the Loss of the Royal Charlotte (The Words by G. S. Carey, and composed by Mazzinghi)-Incledon; Dancing-Mr and Master Michell (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh; 1st appearance)

13702
29 November 1666 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Henry Muddiman, 29 Nov. 1666: The Players have upon great proffers of disposing a large share to charitable uses prevailed to have liberty to act at Both Houses, which they begin this day (CSPD, Charles II, clxxcii, 6, in Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 250). A manuscript prologue for the opening of the theatre in Bridges Street is in J. Payne Collier's MS Restoration Stage History, Part I, p. 106, in the Houghton Library, Harvard. The Diary of John Milward, Esq., ed. Caroline Robbins (Cambridge, 1938), p. 49: This day at my coming to the House [of Commons] it moved that plays might be tolerated and acted in the common theatres, and whether any members of the House of Commons should be admitted to go to acts of the playhouses, but it was not resolved

Performances

13703
17 December 1677 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Henry Savile to the Earl of Rochester, 17 Dec. 1677: I had allmost forgott for another argument to bring you to towne that a French troop of comaedians bound for Nimeguen were by adverse winds cast into this hospitable port and doe act at Whitehall soe very well that it is a thousand pittyes they should not stay, especially a young wench of fifteen, who has more beauty and sweetnesse than ever was seen upon the stage since a friend of our left it (HMC, Bath MSS., 1907, II, 161). W. J. Lawrence (Early French Players in England, pp. 148-49) identifies the French actress as Francoise Pitel, later Mlle Raisin

Performances

13704
20 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Henry Cromwell to Alexander Pope, 7 Dec.: We have had a poor comedy of Johnson's (not Ben) which held seven nights, and has got him three hundred pounds, for the town is sharpset on new plays (Pope, I, 136)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief

13705
17 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Henry II oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Clarke's Illness. [Bensley took his part in Alexander the Great.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

13706
01 April 1786 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Perseo

Dance: End of Act I New Divertissement, as17860311End of Opera a new Ballet (composed by D'Egville) L'Amour Jardinier by Vestris, Fabiani, Sga Carolina Pitrot, Mlle Mozon, the two Mlles Simonet, Duquesney Jun., Henry, Michel, Mlle Baccelli

Performance Comment: , Henry, Michel, Mlle Baccelli .

13707
10 December 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Resolution

Dance: A new Ballad Dance-Leppi

13708
24 September 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Brooms

Afterpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: May Day or The Little Gipsy

13709
01 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theyve Bit The Old One Or The Scheming Butler

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: May Day or The Little Gipsey

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: an Epilogue Address portraying the Characteristic Jealousies of the Spaniard, the Italian, the Dutchman, the Frenchman, & the Englishman,-Mrs Mattocks

13710
09 November 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Management

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

13711
22 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good natured Man

Related Works
Related Work: The Fathers; or, The Good Natur'd Man Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Afterpiece Title: The Hermione

Song: End: A Chapter of Fashions (never performed; written by T. Dibdin Jun.)-Munden; The Tight Little Lads of the Ocean (never performed; written by the Author of The Bundle of Proverbs)-Fawcett

13712
03 September 1679 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

13713
02 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady Or Harlequins Opera In The Manner Of A Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Part-Penkethman, Bullock, Lacy, W. Giffard, W. Williams, Huddy, Smith, Collet, Bardin, Mrs Thomas, Mrs Mountfort, Mrs Giffard, Mrs Palmer; but edition of 1730 lists: Ballad-Penkethman; Meanwell-W. Giffard; Modely-Bullock; Drama-Lacey; Mrs Foible-Mrs Mountford; Mrs Sprightly-Mrs Giffard; Prattle-Mrs Palmer; Merit-W. Williams; Smooth-Mrs Thomas; Hackum-Huddy; Whim-Smith; Trifle-Collet; Voice-Bardin; Harlequin-Burney.
Cast
Role: Part Actor: Penkethman, Bullock, Lacy, W. Giffard, W. Williams, Huddy, Smith, Collet, Bardin, Mrs Thomas, Mrs Mountfort, Mrs Giffard, Mrs Palmer
Role: Merit Actor: W. Williams

Dance: Burny, Sandham, Eaton, R. Williams as Harlequin, Scaramouch, Punch, Pantalon

Performance Comment: Williams as Harlequin, Scaramouch, Punch, Pantalon.

13714
22 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

13715
19 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unfortunate Lovers

13716
29 June 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part Ii

13717
01 July 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part I

13718
03 July 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part I

13719
04 July 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part Ii

13720
05 July 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part I

13721
06 July 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part Ii

13722
08 July 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part I

13723
09 July 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part Ii

13724
10 July 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part I

13725
11 July 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part Ii