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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Revd Mr Bate"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Revd Mr Bate")') 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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6392 results for: Keyword - Revd Mr Bate
We found 4266 matches on Event Comments, 1536 matches on Performance Comments, 530 matches on Performance Title, 482 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

201
24 May 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Holtom, Bates and Hamilton; Tickets deliver'd by Thompson will be taken. Tickets sold at doors will not be admitted. Charges #64 10s. Deficit to each beneficiary #4 8s. 9d. covered by income from tickets. @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value@Wild 16 111 255 #46 3s.@Holtom 7 99 76 #24 4s.@Baks 33 145 #33 17s.@Hamilton 45 53 93 #28 10s.@Total 101 327 569 #132 14s.@ Cash advanc'd to Miss Miller as per note #90 (Account Book). Receipts: #46 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17730417 but Shylock (that night only)-Shuter; Gratiano-Dyer; Launcelot-Hamilton; Nerissa-Mrs Vincent; Duke-Morris; Salanio-Owenson; Salarino-Thompson; Tubal-Bates; Balthazar-Holtom; Old Gobbo-Saunders.
Cast
Role: Tubal Actor: Bates

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap

Dance: III: A New Dance-Langrish, Miss Besford, as17730426 IV: Hornpipe-Miss Stede, as17730522

202
06 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for W. Bates and Miss Ambrose. 3rd piece: The overture and the rest of the music composed by Fisher. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #232 17s. 6d. (105.17.6; tickets: 127.0.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Gazette Extraordinary

Afterpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: W. Bates.

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Performance Comment: Harlequin-W.? Bates; Justice-Messink; Gypsies-Baker, Simpkinson, Mrs Morton; Pierrot-Delpini; Maid-Mrs Sharpe; Justice's Wife-Mrs Willems; Pierrot's Wife-Miss Matthews; Colombine-Miss Cranfield.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: W.? Bates

Dance: 3rd piece: Dancing-Dagueville, Langrish, Miss Besford, Miss Matthews

Entertainment: [Vaudeville.]3rd piece: a Leap through a Cask on Fire-

203
12 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By desire of their Excellencies the Persian Ambassadors. Benefit for Booth, Egan & Bates. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #219 5s. (79.0; tickets: 140.5) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Performance Comment: See17801115, but Harlequin-W. Bates; Ferridon-Mrs Kennedy. [The other Characters as usual.]The other Characters as usual.]
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: W. Bates

204
16 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Wroughton as Richmond, and Webb as Lord Mayor. On the Kemble playbill both names are deleted. The name of Wroughton's substitute has been cut by the binder; who acted the part has not as yet come to light. A MS annotation substitutes Bates for Webb.] Receipts: #165 18s. (162/13/6; 3/4/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17821014, but Richmond-?; Lord Mayor-Bates .
Cast
Role: Lord Mayor Actor: Bates
Role: Oxford Actor: W. Bates

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

205
04 May 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bates. 1st piece: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon. 3rd piece: Not acted these 15 years [acted 18 Dec. 1771]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great; Or, The Rival Queens

Performance Comment: Alexander-Wroughton; Lysimachus-Farren; Hephestion-Davies; Clytus-Clarke; Roxana-Mrs Bates; Statira-Miss Younge (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Roxana Actor: Mrs Bates

Afterpiece Title: The Land of Enchantment

Cast
Role: Custom House Officer Actor: Bates

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: Vocal Parts [in Entry] by Johnstone, Brett, Doyle, Darley; Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Martyr, Miss Stuart, Mrs Bannister; End of 1st piece Moderation and Alteration by Edwin

206
19 May 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton and Bates. Tickets delivered for The Fox will be admitted. Receipts: #203 16s. (38.2.0; 25.7.6; 4.13.6; tickets: 135.13.0) (charge: #105 9s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: As17880109, but Sir Brilliant Fashion-Dodd; William-Bates.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Bates.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Collin's Ode on the Passions-Palmer

207
15 February 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Book of the opera to be had at the Theatre. A serious English Opera with music by Mr Bates. [These notes appear on all bills this season.] Well received but neglected (Victor, History of the Theatres, III, 63). [Altered from the Italian by Thomas Hull.] We hear a patent will be made out, in favor of an eminent English actor, who intends to establish a Playhouse at New York (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pharnaces

Related Works
Related Work: Pharnaces Author(s): William Bates

Dance: I: A Dance call'd The Coopers-Aldridge, Miss Baker; II: A New Comic Dance-Berardi, Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi, Miss Baker, Grimaldi

208
26 April 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee and Miss Slack. Comedy never performed, Alteration of Wycherley's play into two acts by Lee (Genest, V, 69). Tickets and places to be had of Lee at LaGrange's Medicinal Warehouse, in New St., Covent Garden; of Miss Slack, at Mr Bates', Charles St., Covent Garden; and at Stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: End: New Tambourine, as17640929

209
28 November 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Miss Hopkins first time Maria --well receiv'd Mrs Abington Spoke a New Epilogue in Character of Philly Nettletop great Applause (Hopkins Diary). Paid Mr Bate's bill for composing The Theatrical Candidates #32 11s. Receipts: #124 19s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Oaks

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

210
16 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Title Unknown

211
30 November 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers; Or, The Good Natur'd Man

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Baddeley

Dance: As17780919

212
15 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

213
14 November 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

214
November 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

215
December 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles; Or, Iphigenia In Aulis

216
January 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage-hater Matched

217
04 July 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Citizen Turned Gentleman

218
19 January 1683 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politiques

219
November 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deceiver Deceived

220
28 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

221
September 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Imposture Defeated; Or, A Trick To Cheat The Devil

222
09 July 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Courtship A La Mode

223
12 February 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Music: A piece of Instrumental Musick- to be perform'd on the Stage

Song: Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs; particularly a Two/part Song-Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs compos'd by the late Mr Henry Purcell

Song: Country Farmer's Daughter, Highland Lilt-the Devonshire Girl; The Whip of Dunbyn-Claxton; a new Entry-Mrs Campion, others; A Scotch Dance-Mrs Bicknell; a new Scaramouch Man and Scaramouch Woman-Laferry, Mrs Lucas

224
26 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Entertainment: Young Gentlewoman, as17100817; Likewise a Vaulting the Managed Horse-famous Master who never appear'd on the Publick Stage

Dance: Ladder Dance-; French Peasant-; Wooden Shoe-; Harlequin Scaramouch Cooper and Wife-

225
21 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register