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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr William Turner"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr William Turner")') 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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16248 results for: Keyword - Mr William Turner
We found 10808 matches on Author, 4580 matches on Event Comments, 2731 matches on Performance Comments, 613 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

16126
31 July 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir William Davenant; but Originally by the famous French Dramatick Poet Monsieur Moliere. [Genest, II, 352, surmises that the company probably acted Acts I, II, and V of The Playhouse to be Let.] Afterpiece: A Burlesque Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Playhouse To Be Let; With Sganarella, The Blacksmith Of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Playhouse To Be Let Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: Mock Pompey

Song:

Dance:

16127
11 December 1706 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Williams

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

16128
02 April 1707 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hall, Daughter to William Hall, who formerly had the Consort of Musick at his House in Norfolk-street. At 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the greatest Masters

16129
22 April 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Williams and Willer [Weller?]. Tickets delivered for Saturday 23 taken this night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Song: As17070327

Dance: As17070403

16130
05 June 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By William Taverner.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's The Mistress

Related Works
Related Work: The Disappointment: or, The Maid's the Mistress Author(s): William Taverner

16131
25 May 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See Tatler, 26 May. [In Daily Courant, 24 May, William Bowen announced that The Stratagem, advertised for this day as his benefit, is deferred and that tickets for it will be accepted on 1 June at Sganarell; or, The Cuckold in Conceit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

16132
06 February 1711 @ Southwark

Event Comment: Benefit William Mears and Friend Hale. In the Town Hall at St. Margaret's Hill, Southwark. Tickets 1s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

16133
06 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Ryder, Diary, pp. 359-60: Went to see the tragedy of Tamerlane which was acted with a new prologue in honour of King William and in memory of what he did for us. The play itself is good....Mills who acted the part of Bajazet did it mighty well and expressed that furiousness and rage and malice and ambition admirably well in his gesture at the end, but, which is his distinguishing character, very well kept up throughout. I observed in the general that the manner of speaking in our theatres in tragedy is not natural. There is something that would be very shocking and disagreeable and very unnatural in real life. Persons would call it theatrical, meaning by that something stiff and affected

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

16134
28 February 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: '[By William Taverner.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well If It Takes

Related Works
Related Work: Tis Well if it Takes Author(s): William Taverner

16135
23 December 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit William Cobston. By Subscription

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

16136
23 February 1720 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit William Douglass, commonly called the Black Prince. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Singing-Mrs Fletcher; Concerto-Matthew Dubourg; Solo-Kytch

16137
09 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit William Mills and Chetwood, Prompter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Dance: Shaw, Weaver, Boval, Lally, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe

16138
08 May 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit William Mills and Chetwood

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Dance: Desnoyer, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Mrs Tenoe

16139
16 February 1722 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit William Douglas, commonly call'd Prince. Tickets 5s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-Castrucci, Kytch

16140
07 May 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit William Mills and the Prompter. Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Tenoe

16141
06 March 1723 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit William Douglas, commonly call'd Prince. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Violin-Michael Christian Festin; Lute-Francisco Weybough; Hautboy-Kytch [but see hay]

16142
29 April 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Williams. By Her Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Constancy

Dance: Shaw, Topham, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe; particularly Myrtillo-

Related Works
Related Work: Small Talk; or, The Westminster Boy Author(s): William Shield

16143
03 August 1724 @ Richmond

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. N.B. Tickets given out for The Merry Wives of Windsor will be taken at this Play. [See Daily Post, 3 Aug., for Penkethman's celebration at Richmond on 1 Aug., the anniversary of the Hanoverian succession to the throne, and British Journal, 8 Aug., for an account of William Marshall, of lif, as an anti-Hanoverian demonstrator on 1 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Related Works
Related Work: The Stage Coach Opera Author(s): William Chetwood

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper

Song:

16144
13 November 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command.Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. The King, Queen, Prince William, and three Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

16145
23 November 1731 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince of Wales, Prince William, three eldest Princesses, Duke of Lorrain present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

16146
30 November 1731 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, Prince William, Princess Royal, the young Princesses, and Duke of Lorrain present. See also Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 115.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

16147
28 April 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Singing in Italian-Roberts

Dance: TThe Masques-Essex, Thurmond, Houghton, Lally Jr, F. Tench, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson, Miss Williams, Mrs Delorme, Miss Mears, Mrs Rogers

Performance Comment: Tench, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson, Miss Williams, Mrs Delorme, Miss Mears, Mrs Rogers.
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Fourth: With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff Author(s): William Shakespeare

16148
17 August 1732 @ Tottenham Court

Event Comment: At Rayner-Walker Booth. [Prince William and Princesses Mary and Louisa present, also His Excellency Ach Mahomet, Ambassador from Algiers.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Wife Well Manag'd; Or, Cuckoldom Prevented

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Harlequin; or, The Life and Death of Dr Faustus

16149
19 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On this day died Mrs William Mills

Performances

16150
31 May 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Set to Musick after the Italian Manner. The Habits and Decorations entirely New. [Probably by Eliza Haywood and William Hatchett, with music by Arne.] 7 p.m. 5s., 3s., 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Opera Of Operas; Or, Tom Thumb The Great

Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): William Hatchett