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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr William Smith"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr William Smith")') 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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17426 results for: Keyword - Mr William Smith
We found 10821 matches on Author, 4811 matches on Event Comments, 4282 matches on Performance Comments, 806 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

13951
30 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred The Great

Music: I: Concerto on Violin-Pinto; II: Concerto on Hautboy-Vincent; Concerto on Organ-Arne Jr

13952
04 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oncerto Spirituale

13953
12 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Song: II: (By Particualr Desire) a Song-Miss Brent; IV: Nymphs and Shepherds in the Oratorio Alfred-Miss Brent

Dance: V: The Milkmaid's Holiday, as17590421

13954
28 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

13955
24 September 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Admission: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for Boxes to taken of Mr Sarjant at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Play to begin exactly at o'clock. [This information, appearing at the foot of each bill, will not be repeatdd hereafter, except for significant differences.] Receipts: #111 5s. Deficit brought over from last season accounts, Journal T. Folio, 182, #164 0s. 6d. Paid Mr Lambert 3 month's salary to 15 Aug. last #25 (Covent Garden Cash Book). [Goldsmith's Bee (1759, p. 9) remarks on the better business used by Lovegold in the French theatre than used at cg: "Lovegold [in France] in the height of his passion stops to pick up a pin, quilting it in his coat, and snuffs out an extra candle." Implies that such subconscious revelations of the character of the miser might well be used by the English.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

13956
27 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

13957
13 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Wat Actor: C. Smith
Role: Nimming Ned Actor: R. Smith
Role: Trueman Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17591012 End II: a New Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hillard; Hornpipe-Miss Dawson

13958
10 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Indsor

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

13959
31 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

13960
17 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

13961
02 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Comus Actor: Smith

13962
04 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Cast
Role: Valentine Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

13963
24 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Wat Actor: C. Smith
Role: Nimming Ned Actor: R. Smith
Role: Trueman Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: CCountry Dance-Characters of the Opera; A Hornpipe-Miss Dawson; End II: A New Dance call'd The Shepherdess-Miss Wilford

13964
14 April 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Galligantus

13965
15 August 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

13966
13 September 1760 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Advertisement

13967
17 October 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Dance: II: The Mad Doctor, as17601014

13968
30 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Comus Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

13969
07 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Dance: II: The Cow Keepers, as17601008

13970
16 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

Cast
Role: Riot Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheepshearing; or, Florizel and Perdita Author(s): William Shakespeare

Entertainment: After the Farce:(this night only) the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the: Order of British Bucks, with the Whimsical Behavior of Choice Spirits and M. Thurot's Trip to Carrickfergus-Mr Shuter. See17610326

Dance: The Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

13971
25 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Cast
Role: Theodosius Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: TThe Waggoners, as17610228

13972
26 October 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Arcadia; or, The Shepherd's Wedding

13973
03 November 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

13974
25 March 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Tom Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: TThe Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

13975
01 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe (With Alterations)

Ballet: II: A New Comic Dance, call'd The May Day Frolic. Country Girl-Miss Dawson; Chimney Sweeper-Mr Baltazar

Dance: End: New Hornpipe-Miss Dawson

Song: IV: Miss Young