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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.

14401
18 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Berrisford and Cridland, Watson, Smith &c. Tickets deliver'd by Berrisford and Humphreys will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Dance: II: The Provancalle, as17631014

14402
16 May 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith (box-office-keeper) and Cridland (box-keeper). Tickets deliver'd by Berrisford, Chinnaw, Humphreys, and Carlton will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: End: Comic Dance, as17660207

14403
25 September 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [M$Mrs King was formerly Miss Baker (Genest, V, 115).] Paid Watson and Smith (Box Office Keepers) #20 (Drury Lane Treasurer's Book). [This was operating cash, returned 4 June 1767.] Receipts: #135 14s. 6d. (Drury Lane Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

14404
10 April 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Rec'd from Stanley and Smith for use of the organ #21, and for coals burnt at the oratorios #2 2s. (Account Book). Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: As17670306

14405
24 April 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. House charges #74 10s. [Profit to Havard #131 13s.] Paid Medlam (smith's) bill #79 13s.; printer's bill #8 12s.; 5 Trumpets, 2 Flutes #1 15s.; Chorus singers #2 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #216 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Dance: End: A Comic Dance-Duquesney, Mrs King, as17670302

14406
07 October 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Performance Comment: As17671005, but Others-R. Smith, _DuBellamy (playbill), although $DuBellamy remains in Public Advertiser.
Cast
Role: Others Actor: R. Smith, _DuBellamy

14407
19 February 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By command of their Majesties. Pit and Boxes to be put together. Tickets will be deliver'd this day at the Office in the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries will be opened at Half an Hour after Four. Pit and Boxes at Five. To Begin at Half after Six. House Charges to Stanley and Smith #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: CConcerto on Organ-Stanley

14408
02 March 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. House Charges received from Stanley and Smith #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joseph

Related Works
Related Work: The Reformation Author(s): Joseph Arrowsmith
Related Work: Have at All; or, The Midnight Adventure Author(s): Joseph Williams

Music: As17680219

14409
17 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Receiv'd from Stanley and Smith for use of the Organ this season #21; for coals burnt at Oratorios #2 2s. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: Serenata Geminiane, Third Opera,-Sg Paganini

14410
17 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. The Tragedy Altered by Dr Hawkesworth. Part of Pit will be Laid into the Boxes. [Winston MS 10, from O. Smith from the Town & Country Magazine, suggests Oroonoko--Fleetwood, son of the late manager, and brother to the gentleman who appeared about Nine years ago at dl.] Charges #66 19s. Balance to Bensley #51 15s. 6d. plus #113 15s. from tickets (Box 416; Pit 59; Gallery 9). Paid Younger for writing parts #6 3s. 4d. Receipts: #118 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: The Garland, as17681028

14411
17 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [W+Winston MS 10 notes that O. Smith suggests Miss Spencer. Winston suggests Mrs Greville. The Town and Country Magazine (From Theatre No XIII): "Mrs Gladeau...has appeared as Rosetta in Love in a Village." Comments that she does not know much about music but "has a pleasing voice and an agreeable figure and will probably be a valuable acquisition to the stage. Received with applause."] Receipts: #217 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Gibson

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: II: Dutch Dance, as17691111

14412
17 March 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority and Particular Desire. For the Son of an Officer, fifty Years in Commission. Tickets delivered by Smith and Sharpless for the 15th and Monday the 19th will be admitted. N.B. As Regularity, at least, will be attempded, it is hoped no Gentleman will ask admittance behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: Wits Led by the Nose; or, A Poet's Revenge Author(s): William Chamberlayne
Related Work: The Lady’s Revenge; or, The Rover Reclaim'd Author(s): William Popple

Afterpiece Title: The Whim; or, The Hospital Fools

Entertainment: I+Interlude. Three Old Women Weatherwise-

14413
26 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Charges #64 15s. 6d. Balance to Shuter #109 8s., plus #85 17s. from tickets (Box 200; Pit 239). Woodward, Mrs Yates and Smith paid their balances (Account Book). Receipts: #174 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Gibson

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: II: The Lamplighters, as17691005; II of the Comedy: The Dutch Milkmaid Dance=, as17691111

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London-; Epilogue Riding upon an Ass-Shuter

14414
31 January 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Performance Comment: As17701120, but Love_; Beggars-Mrs Smith.
Cast
Role: Beggars Actor: Mrs Smith.

14415
28 September 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The first payroll of the season was met this night. It includes 91 actors, actresses and dancers, plus 36 named servants to the theatre and 4 groups (women dressers, charwomen, guards, and barbers). The pay period covered was for 3 days. It came to #168 2s. 6d. The highest paid actor for this period was Ross at #8 5s.; the highest paid actress, Mrs Yates at #8 6s. 6d.; the highest paid dancer, Fichar at #3. The lowest paid in each category were: actors: C. Smith and Hollingsworth at 7s. 6d. apiece; actresses, 11 who receiv'd 10s. each (Mrs Ferguson, Evans, White, Allen, Cockayne, &c.); Dancers: 11 who receiv'd 15s. apiece (male) and 2 (female) who receiv'd 12s. 6d. apiece. The highest paid servant listed was Stables at 15s., and the lowest the charwomen.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

14416
30 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Doe, Claridge and John Smith each 15s. for performing 6 nights in the Ass and Hog [Mother Shipton] to the 18th inst. (Account Book). Receipts: #32 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

14417
27 July 1772 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Performance Comment: As17720624, but to avoid confusion full cast listed. Foote, Robson, Aickin, Baddeley, F. Gentleman, Davies, Parsons, Weston, Castle, Lloyd, Lings, Dancer, Smith, Vowell, Jacobs, Farrell, Pierce, Mrs Gardner, Mrs Jewell%.

Afterpiece Title: Cupid's Revenge

Dance: As17720615

14418
20 October 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mrs Smith made her first Appearance in Sylvia a pretty Innocent looking figure a Sweet Voice & very proper for the Character She had vast Applause & very deservedly. (Hopkins Diary). [Macmillan note from Kemble differs slightly in wording.] Receipts: #125 2s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

14419
13 April 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Love. Recd Messrs Stanley & Smith 11 Oratorio Nights at #28 per night Candles Oyl &c. #347 12s.; Paid 11 nights Rent for Oratorios #88 (Treasurer's Book). [The Apology for Apologies is Larpent MS 351. Satire upon "Indispositions" of principal performers, suggests what would happen if other professions (law, medicine) substituted stand-ins with no other apology than is made in the theatrical profession.] Receipts: #168 8s. Charges: #64 12s. Profits to Love: #103 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Entertainment: After: (For that Night only) An Apology for Apologies-King

Dance: The Sailors Revels, as17720919

14420
12 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Burkinyoung (smith) #5 9s. 6d. Receipts: #88 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Midas

14421
02 March 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Oratorio by Benjamin Stillingfleet, words adapted from Milton, set to Music by John Christopher Smith (Biographia Dramatica)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Paradise Lost

Music: As17740218

14422
03 January 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Gentleman who played Hamlet identified by Winston MS 11 (from O. Smith) as Lewis Hallam, from America, brother to Mrs Mattocks.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

14423
21 February 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Tragedy [by Edmund Smith] not acted these 20 years. [See 1 Nov. 1756.] The Characters New Dress'd. [The Barrys had revived it at dl the year before.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End Tragedy: Rural Merriment, as17741209

14424
23 February 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Mrs Lowe@and@Co. (glaziers) #17 11s. 6d.; Hatsell, (mercer) #142 3s.; Scott (copper laceman) #16 11s.; Marshall & Co., (plumbers) #27 8s.; Ireland (upholsterer) #43 4s.; Stacy (colourman) #18 16s.; Gardner (shoemaker) #36 11s.; Barrow & Co. (oil) #103, 13s.; Thomson (smith) #27 8s.; Cubitt (tinman) #24 15s. Receipts: #143 5s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jacket

Dance: II: Grand Provencalle Dance, as17750202

14425
16 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Braganza [announced on playbill of 15 Apr.] is oblig'd to be deferr'd on Account of Smith's Indisposition. Receipts: #121 14s. (94.12; 25.18; 1.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Cast
Role: William Actor: Baddeley

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Cast
Role: William Actor: Everard