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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.

14351
24 March 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Music: Solo on Violin by a Youth of 13 Years, who never performed in public before, a scholar of Signor Catanio

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17350311 By Lally, S. Lally, Mlle Salle

14352
06 October 1735 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

14353
01 March 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Charles The First; An Historical Play

14354
02 May 1737 @ Castle Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-some of the Best Performers in the Operas; particularly a Solo, Concerto on the Violoncello-Caporale; a Solo, Concerto on the Violin-Collet; several Songs-Savage; and at the End of each Part: will be perform'd one of Handel's Coronation Anthems- with Voices and Instruments

14355
13 March 1741 @ Castle Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The Vocal Part-Lowe; the First Violin-Jackson; several Grand Trumpet Pieces-Valentine Snow; a Concerto, a Solo-Jackson's Brother, a lad eleven years of age

14356
06 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: I: A Concerto, as17420105; II: The Drunken Peasant-Phillips; III: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; IV: Les Matelotes, as17411208

Ballet: V: Les Satires Puny. As17420106

14357
18 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Les Savoyards-Villeneuve, Sga Domitilla; La Provencale, as17421105

14358
06 May 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: TThe Happy Lovers, as17421006; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Grand Comic Ballet, as17430407

14359
21 February 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Regulus

14360
21 March 1744 @ Crown and Anchor Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Friendship

14361
27 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

14362
11 December 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Song: Lowe, Miss Edwards

14363
20 February 1745 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

14364
07 October 1746 @ Southwark

Event Comment: NNew Theatre, Bowling Green. A Concert, etc. [repeated in all notices for this theatre]. Benefit Mrs Williams</a>, Miss Pattocks, Mrs Smith 7 p.m. Prices 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: RRussian Sailor Dance-Phillips

Song: Mrs Bennet, Cunningham

14365
19 March 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

14366
30 March 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marry Or Do Worse; Or, No Wit Like A Woman's

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Song: I,IV: Lowe

Dance: II: Muilment; III: The Mechels; V: Salomon, Sga Padouana, Salomon's Son

14367
24 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

14368
21 December 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Flora

14369
20 January 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Music: I: By Desire, a piece of Music-the Child

Dance: II: Savoyards, as17480920; V: New Scotch Dance, as17490118

14370
20 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: SSavoyards, as17480920

14371
27 February 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

14372
16 February 1750 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'opera Du Gueux

Performance Comment: Dubutin-Costo; Delateur-Fern; Tourneclef-Smith; Comedian-Johnson; Gueux-Edwards; Mathieu [Dubutin in Daily Advertiser]-Daniel; Laronneau-Jackson [Morgan in earlier notices]; Jaques-Brown; Henry du Chemin-Johnson; Mme Delateur-Mrs Knight; Mlle Manon@Delateur-Miss Davis; Mlle Cajoleuse-Miss Rawlinson [Mrs Jackson in earlier notices]; Dorothee Coureuse-Mrs Anderson; Mlle Grondant-Mrs Butler; Babeau Catin-Miss Stevens; Janneton du Plongeon-Mrs Knight; Mlle Sans Corps-Miss Cotterel [Mrs Williams</a> in earlier notices]; Susanne Pimpante-Mrs Daniel; Manon Effrontee-Mrs Adams; Diane de la Friperie-Mrs Knight; Mlle Lucie-Miss Talbot.

Dance: HHornpipe-Greniere; End: Dance al la Ronde in the French Manner,-the Characters of the Opera

14373
22 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: CComic Dance, as17500221; Venetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

14374
18 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: HHornpipe-Mathews, the Little Swiss

14375
20 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Matthews and James. Rec'd Cash #44 9s., plus #116 12s. from tickets. Total #161 1s. Paid Mr Barsanti for music by order of Garrick #1 11s. 6d. Paid Mr Williams</a> 1!2 year's rent K: passage #11 15s. (Treasurer's Book). Mr Mills bury'd at St Marks [Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: I: Fingalian Dance-McNeil; II: Black Joke-the Little Swiss, Miss Foulcade; III: Grand Scotch Dance, as17491031; IV: Hornpipe-Mathews; End of Play: Minuet-Mathews, Mad DeLaContri