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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Williams")') 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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14479 results for: Keyword - Williams.
We found 10791 matches on Author, 5263 matches on Roles/Actors, 1664 matches on Performance Comments, 434 matches on Event Comments, and 51 matches on Performance Title.

101
25 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: Several New Entertainments:A Dutch Dance-Mad Auguste lately arriv'd from Paris,; The Hungarian Peasants-Ferrere, Mad Auretti; Comic Dance-Devisse, Mlle Auguste

102
13 September 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Matthews, the Little Swiss

103
22 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Camargo

104
10 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Song: I: Mary Scot (by particular desire)-Beard; III: A Scots Cantata-Beard; IV: Hooly and Fairly-Beard

Dance: CCountry Amusements, as17540416

105
25 September 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Flora

106
18 February 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Proteus

107
13 May 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Walker

108
17 May 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: I: Pantomime Dance, as17560511; III: Fingalian Dance, as17551126; V: Italian Peasants, as17551126

Entertainment: IV: Cries of Dublin-Barrington

109
22 November 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

110
10 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

111
21 November 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Ballet: TThe Feast of Bacchus. As17581116

112
17 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Stevens, first time; Ford-Havard; Sir Hugh Evans-Williams, first time; Shallow-Weston; Mrs Ford-Mrs Pritchard; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Bradshaw; Dr Caius-Blakes; Page-Packer; Fenton-Scrase; Slender-O'Brien; Rugby-Marr; Mrs Page-Miss Haughton; Anne Page-Mrs Hippisley; Host-Philips; Simple-Vaughan; Pistol-Ackman; Bardolph-Clough; Nym-Watkins.
Cast
Role: Sir Hugh Evans Actor: Williams</a>, first time

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Song: Between the Acts: Randall; II: Mrs Vincent

Dance: III: Hearts of Oak, as17620421

Entertainment: By Particular Desire, Hippisley's Drunken Man-Weston

113
03 November 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

114
13 September 1766 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

115
22 October 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: I: Hearts of Oak-Giorgi, Mrs King

116
13 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: I: Hearts of Oak-Giorgi, Mrs King

117
01 April 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisals; or, The Tars of Old England

Dance: I: Comic Dance, as17701025

118
01 October 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: I: Comic Dance, as17710921

119
17 November 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: I: Comic Dance, as17720922

120
02 November 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: I: The Mountaineers, as17730930

121
01 October 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Meeting of the Company

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

Dance: I: A Dance-Giorgi's Scholars

122
20 December 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

123
28 March 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: I: The Frolick, as17741214

Entertainment: End Act III: The Cries of London-Shuter; End: an Epilogue, riding on an Ass-Shuter; After the Farce: (by Particular Desire) Observations in his Post Haste Journey to Paris-Shuter (playbill)

124
20 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Dance: I: The Pirates, as17750422

125
24 May 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cozeners

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Foote, Egan, Wilson, Aickin, Jacobs, Griffith, Everard, Weston, Mrs Williams</a>, Mrs Gardner, Miss Platt, Mrs Love, Mrs Wilson

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Performance Comment: Grub-Wilson; Counsel-Jones; George Bevil-Lane; Harry-Williams; Francis-Chaplin; Robin-Castevens; Chapeau-Whitefield; Emily-Miss Ambrose; Maid-Miss Platt; Mrs Grub-Mrs Gardner.