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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Miss Hillyard"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Miss Hillyard")') 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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14856 results for: Keyword - Miss Hillyard
We found 13749 matches on Performance Comments, 4402 matches on Performance Title, 1719 matches on Event Comments, 394 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

251
19 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Cast
Role: Advocate Actor: Miss Hillyard

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: OOld England forever , with chorus-Leveridge

Dance: New Comic Dance between Pantaloon and his Enamorata,-Picq, Mlle Bonneval; Chacone, as17411230; concluding with: La Provencale, as17420212

252
23 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Audrey Actor: Miss Hillyard

Dance: I: The Peasants, as17420210; III: Minuet (by desire)-Destrade, Mlle Auguste; New Comic Dance, Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

Song: II: Ruddier than the Cherry, out of Acis and Galetea (Set by Handel),-Reinhold; IV: True Blue-Roberts

253
28 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Miss Hillyard

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Cast
Role: Mauxalinda Actor: Miss Young

Dance: II: Chacone, as17411230; V: New Comic Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste

Song: II: Under the Greenwood Tree-Salway

Entertainment: By desire The Cries of London-Salway

254
29 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Hillyard

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Waltz, Thompson, Mrs Wright, Miss Davies
Role: the Villagers Actor: Waltz, Thompson, Roberts, Miss Davis included in the Metamorphoses of Harlequin pantomime
Role: Eurydice Actor: Miss Young
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Miss Davies, Miss Short.

Dance: LLouvre, Minuet-Dupre, a scholar of his

255
01 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Miss Hillyard

Dance: II: Les Savoyardes-Villeneuve, Sga Domitilla; III: Rigadone Provencale, as17420226; IV: Minuet-Villeneuve, Mlle Bonneval; V: The Peasants, as17420210

256
03 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Cast
Role: Honoria Actor: Miss Burgess

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Miss Hillyard

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17420430 V: Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

Song: II: Under the Greenwood Tree-Roberts; End Farce: a Gregorean Song-Stoppelaer

Entertainment: IV: Cries of London-Salway

257
04 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Miss Hillyard

Song: Songs in Masonry-Salway, Bencraft; Arra my Judy (by desire)-Stoppelaer

Entertainment: CCries of London-Salway

Dance: PPantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

258
06 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17420216, but Scentwell-Miss Ferguson; Miranda-Mrs Hale.
Cast
Role: Scentwell Actor: Miss Ferguson

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Miss Hillyard

Dance: As17420505

Entertainment: CCries of London-Salway

259
08 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Cast
Role: Mrs Farthingal Actor: Miss Hillyard

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Lasses Actor: Dupre, Lestrande, Davenport, Mlle Maudet, Mlle Renos, Miss Short

Dance: NNew Scots Dance, as17420401

Ballet: RRural Assembly. As17420121, but Shepherdesses-Mlle _Rhenos, Mlle _Maudet

260
10 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Cast
Role: Fool Actor: Miss Ferguson

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Miss Hillyard

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17420210; Comic Dance-Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs LeBrun; Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

261
14 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Performance Comment: As17420119, but Wishwell-Mrs Hale; Old Atall-Harrington; Strut-Stoppelaer; Situp-Miss Davies.
Cast
Role: Situp Actor: Miss Davies.

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Miss Hillyard

Dance: II: As17420510; IV: Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

Song: AArrah my Judy-Stoppelaer

Entertainment: CCries of London-Salway

262
21 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Cast
Role: Advocate Actor: Miss Hillyard

Afterpiece Title: Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Lasses Actor: Dupre, Lestrande, Davenport, Mlle Maudet, Mlle Renos, Miss Short

Song: OOld England forever, with the chorus-Leveridge

Dance: III: The Italian Peasants-Froment; V: Louvre, concluding with a Minuet-Froment, Mlle Auguste

263
29 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Helen Actor: Miss Hillyard
Role: Shade of Hero Actor: Miss Davis

264
12 November 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Hillyard

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Grand Ballet, as17421025

265
16 November 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Cast
Role: Mrs Squeamish Actor: Miss Hillyard

Dance: LLa Provencale, as17421001; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Peasants, as17421102

266
19 November 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Cast
Role: Mrs Squeamish Actor: Miss Hillyard

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; La Provencale, as17421001; Grand Ballet, as17421108

267
26 November 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast
Role: Juletta Actor: Miss Hillyard

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing, as17421025; La Villageoise, as17421006; Grand Ballet, as17421108

268
01 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Cast
Role: Mrs Squeamish Actor: Miss Hillyard

Dance: LLes Boufons du Cour, as17421120; Dutch Skipper, as17421025; Musette, Tambourine-Janneton Auretti; Grand Ballet, as17421108

269
04 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast
Role: Juletta Actor: Miss Hillyard

Dance: LLes Boufons du Cour, as17421120; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17421120

270
09 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Hillyard

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Musette-Picq, Sga Domitilla; Grand Ballet, as17421108

271
14 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Cast
Role: Mrs Squeamish Actor: Miss Hillyard

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; The Happy Lovers, as17421006; La Provencale-Picq, Mlle Auguste

272
27 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Proserpine Actor: Miss Hillyard
Role: 3rd Sylvan Actor: Miss Hillyard
Role: Country Lads and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Delagarde, Destrade, Miss Dodson, Mlle Maudet, Miss Short

273
30 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Cast
Role: Mrs Squeamish Actor: Miss Hillyard

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Peasants-Villeneuve, Mlle August; Le Rendezvous Gallant,as17421217

274
01 January 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17421009, but Lady Macduff-Mrs Stevens; The Vocal parts-Miss _Davis; All the Dances proper to the play-.
Cast
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: Miss _Davis

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Country Lads and Lasses Actor: Mrs Jackson, Miss _Dodson.
Role: Proserpine Actor: Miss Hillyard
Role: 3rd Sylvan Actor: Miss Hillyard

275
04 January 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast
Role: Juletta Actor: Miss Hillyard

Afterpiece Title: Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Country Lads and Lasses Actor: Mrs Jackson, Miss _Dodson.
Role: Proserpine Actor: Miss Hillyard
Role: 3rd Sylvan Actor: Miss Hillyard