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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.

16226
10 January 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Cast
Role: Williams Actor: Ackman

16227
15 February 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabeus

Music: End Part I: A Solo-; End Part II: A Concerto on Violin-Sga Lombardini Sirmen

16228
27 February 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cure Of Saul

Music: As17710220

16229
01 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: End: Comic Dance, as17710416 but Daigville

16230
01 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Music: II: A Favourite Concerto on the Harpsichord-Hook

Ballet: End Opera: The Wapping Landlady and Double Hornpipe. As17710422

16231
06 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: II: A Comic Dance, as17710416

Entertainment: End: Burlesque Cantata, as17710504

16232
15 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Townly Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: II: Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford; V: The Fingalian Dance-Miss Besford. [See17591102.

Music: III: Concerto on Trumpet-Mas. Green (Scholar to Mr Jones)

16233
15 May 1771 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: I: The Cowkeepers-Mas. West, Miss West

16234
01 June 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels-Atkins

16235
28 June 1771 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Bath

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: As17710626

16236
02 October 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Midas

16237
09 October 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin's Invasion; or, A Christmas Gambol Author(s): William Boyce

16238
12 October 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

16239
24 October 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels, as17711008; V: Comic Dance, as17711021

16240
26 October 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin's Invasion; or, A Christmas Gambol Author(s): William Boyce

Dance: II: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

16241
05 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

16242
06 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

16243
09 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

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

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

16244
13 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

16245
18 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: A Dance call'd The Amusements of Strasburgh-Daigville, Sga Vidini, Daigvilles scholars

16246
19 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

16247
25 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

16248
29 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

16249
30 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Sir George Actor: Smith
Role: Whisper Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

16250
16 December 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Amelia

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17711008