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15711 results for: Keyword - Henry Williams
We found 13307 matches on Author, 2263 matches on Performance Comments, 1264 matches on Performance Title, 791 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

15651
21 November 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Related Works
Related Work: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: End: The Recruits, as17721117

15652
04 June 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nabob

Performance Comment: As17730517, but Parts-Mrs Williams, Mrs _Gardner.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Mrs Williams, Mrs _Gardner.

Afterpiece Title: Cupid's Revenge

Dance: End: As17730602

15653
17 February 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mrs Greville ill new piece deferr'd. A Christmas Tale after this night will be laid aside for sometime (playbill). Paid Chorus 4 nights (this incl.) #8 2s; Extra Guitars and Flutes 2 nights (this inc) #2.; Mr Wrighten on note #12 12s.; Mrs Weston's Debt & Costs to Rd Williams #4 17s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #210 18s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Christmas Tale

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

15654
16 May 1774 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bankrupt

Performance Comment: Parts-Foote, Kennedy Jun. (from Dublin, first time here), Fearon, Aickin, Davis, Jacobs, Bannister, Lloyd, Jones, Courtney, Everard, Johnson, Weston, Mrs Williams, Miss Ambrose, Miss Platt, Mrs Jewell; Prologue-Foote.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Related Works
Related Work: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: End: Giorgi's scholars

15655
30 May 1774 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nabob

Performance Comment: Parts-Foote, Weston, Wilson, first time (from Edinburgh), Kennedy, Follett, Griffith, Owenson, Fearon, Davis, Jacobs, Jones, Castle, Lloyd, Courtney, Mrs Williams, Miss Ambrose, Mrs Palmer, Mrs Gardner.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: As17740516

15656
28 July 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Bath

Performance Comment: As17750612 but Parts-Williams, _Davis.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Williams, _Davis.

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: The Haymakers-

15657
07 November 1775 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Didone

Dance: As17751104

Ballet: Le Triomphe D'Euthime sur Le Genie de Liba. As17751104

15658
16 February 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Performance Comment: As17760212, but Vocals-Mrs Williams, Mrs +Masters; Dance-Zuchelli, Sga Vidini.
Cast
Role: Vocals Actor: Mrs Williams, Mrs +Masters

15659
01 February 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: As17761015

15660
24 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17761123

15661
15 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

15662
21 December 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Spendthrift; or, A ChristmasGambol

15663
08 January 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2, attributed to Richard Brinsley Sheridan (see G. W. Williams in Studies in Philology, XLVII, 1950, 619-28). Synopsis of action (W. Randall, 1779) lists no parts]: The Overture and Music entirely new. With new Scenes, Machines, Dresses and Decorations. All the Scenery, Machinery, &c. designed by DeLoutherbourg and executed under his direction. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. [For a discussion of this pantomime see Theatre Survey, II, 54-66.] Public Advertiser, 24 Feb. 1779: This Day is published an Account of The Wonders of Derbyshire and the Songs (6d.). Receipts: #225 19s. (223.18.0; 2.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire; or, Harlequin in the Peak

15664
23 February 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

15665
23 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: The Dockyard-Dagueville, Master Dagueville, Holland, Miss Valois

15666
05 April 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Ladies; Or, The Levee Of Lovers

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Lendrick, Davis, Burton, Whitaker, Jackson, Parker, Moorland, Robertson, Parsley, Robins, Barrett, A Young Lady (1st appearance [unidentified]), Miss Costello, Miss Brangin, Miss Jackson, Miss Williams, A Young Lady (1st appearance [unidentified]), Mrs Baker; Occasional Prologue- [Burton (Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.)]; Epilogue-.

Afterpiece Title: No Wit Like A Woman's

15667
14 April 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: The Artifice

15668
31 January 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Sinope

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free-Mason

15669
23 March 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Music: End Part I: concerto on the hautboy-LeBrun; End Part II: concerto on the violin-Salomon (1st public performance in this Kingdom)

Entertainment: Monologue.End Oratorio: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Henderson (Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.); , accompanied with new Airs, Chorus-Dr Arnold, under whose direction the whole Music will be conducted

15670
27 September 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: In Act III of mainpiece song [Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen] by Vernon. [This was sung again by Vernon on 9 Oct., but in all subsequent performances by Williams (or Williames; see17811020).]

Performance Comment: [This was sung again by Vernon on 9 Oct., but in all subsequent performances by Williams (or Williames; see17811020).] hathi.

15671
27 October 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jupiter And Alcmena

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

15672
10 November 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Related Works
Related Work: Arthur and Emmeline Author(s): Henry Purcell

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Song: As17811022

15673
03 January 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Circassian

Afterpiece Title: Lun's Ghost; or, The New Year's Gift

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Wright, Grimaldi, Delpini, Burton, Suett, Lamash, R. Palmer, Phillimore, Spencer, Norris, Nash, Williams, Fawcett; Mrs Love, Miss Simson, Miss Barnes, Miss Palmer, Miss Collett. Cast not known .

Dance: In afterpiece by Zuchelli, Miss M. Stageldoir, &c

Related Works
Related Work: Miss Lucy in Town Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Country Madcap in London Author(s): Henry Fielding

15674
16 March 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

15675
06 May 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Wife; Or, The Female Gallant

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Barrett, Swords, Johnson, Jackson, Barnes, Lyon, Alfred, Morris; Miss Atkinson, Mrs Sauley, Miss Brice, Miss Churchill, Miss Williams. Cast not known. With a Prologue and Epilogue .

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyer Nonsuited

Dance: End of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Middleton

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms; End of Act V The Merry Roundelay, both by Miss Hemet

Monologue: 1782 05 06 End of afterpiece Bucks have at ye All by Middleton

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