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2512 results for: Keyword - W. Bates
We found 1613 matches on Performance Comments, 464 matches on Author, 367 matches on Roles/Actors, 313 matches on Event Comments, and 34 matches on Performance Title.

926
26 April 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: Gamester-Reddish; Stukely-Palmer; Jarvis-Aickin; Bates-Packer; Dawson-J. Aickin; Lewson-Cautherly; Mrs Beverly-Mrs Canning, first time; Charlotte-Miss Hopkins; Lucy-Miss Platt.
Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

Dance: V: The Mountaineers, as17730930

927
16 May 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild, Hamilton, Holtom, Bates, Thompson. Mainpiece acted but once these 15 years. [See 23 April 1750.] Receipts: #27 12s. 6d. Charges #70 9s. Deficit to each beneficiary #8 11s. 3d., cover'd by tickets (Account Book): @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value@Wilde 26 103 124 #34 7s.@Hamilton 38 68 89 #28 12s.@Holtom 22 64 83 #23 8s.@Bates 21 109 170 #38 12s.@Thompson .. 35 130 #18 5s.@Total 107 379 596 #170 16s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Cast
Role: Orchan Actor: Bates

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Monologue: Interlude.End: True Blue. As 3 May

Dance: End I Farce: Minuet-Blurton, Miss Stede

928
17 September 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Meeting of the Company

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: Whittle-Parsons; Kecksey-Dodd; Sir Patrick-Moody; Bates-Baddeley; Newphew-Cautherly; Thomas-Weston; Widow (With an Epilogue Song)-Mrs Greville.
Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Baddeley

Dance: I: The Irish Fair-Atkins, Mrs Sutton

929
11 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Lee; Johnson-Lewis; Smith-Clarke; Others-Dunstall, Quick, Clinch, Lewes, Whitefield, DuBellamy, Baker, Davis, Fearon, Cushing, Thompson, Hollingsworth, Wewitzer, Fox, Bates, Burton, Miss Dayes, Miss Pearce, Miss Besford, Miss Barsanti; With Suitable Dances-, Machinery, Decorations, a Reinforcement of Mr Bayes's New Raised Troops.
Cast
Role: Others Actor: Dunstall, Quick, Clinch, Lewes, Whitefield, DuBellamy, Baker, Davis, Fearon, Cushing, Thompson, Hollingsworth, Wewitzer, Fox, Bates, Burton, Miss Dayes, Miss Pearce, Miss Besford, Miss Barsanti

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

930
21 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: Oakly-Bensley, first time; Major Oakly-Shuter; Charles-Wroughton; Lord Trinket-Lewis[, first time; Russet-Dunstall; Sir Harry-Quick; O'Cutter-Fox; Tom-Hollingsworth; Paris-Wewitzer; John-Bates; Harriet-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Freelove-Mrs Pitt; Toilet-Miss Pearce; Mrs Oakly-A Lady[, first appearance on English Stage [Mrs Hunter]., first appearance on English Stage [Mrs Hunter].
Cast
Role: John Actor: Bates

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: II: The Provencale, as17740928

931
02 December 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of An Hour

Performance Comment: Parts by: Shuter, Bensley, Clarke, Lee Lewes, Quick, Dunstall, Miss Pearce, Mrs Green, Mrs Bulkley. With a New Prologue and Epilogue. Sir Hector Strangeways-Shuter; Brownlow-Bensley; Col. Ormsby-Clarke; Bussora-Lee Lewes; Orson-Quick; Pillage-Dunstall; James-Bates; Jenny-Miss Pearce; Lady Di Strangeways-Mrs Green; Zelida-Mrs Bulkley; With a New Prologue by Kelly-Lee; Epilogue by Kelly-Mrs Bulkley (Edition of 1774).
Cast
Role: James Actor: Bates

Dance: I: The Vintage Festival, as17741007; End Opera: The Irish Lilt-Aldridge, Miss Valois. [See17731005]

932
02 January 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: Beverly-Reddish; Dawson-Usher; Stukeley-Palmer; Jarvis-J. Aickin; Bates-Packer; Lewson-Cautherly; Charlotte-Miss Hopkins; Lucy-Miss Platt; Mrs Beverly-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jacket; or, The New Years Gift

933
20 April 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Palmer. The Entertainment, a New Poetical Interlude (never perform'd there) Alter'd from Prior's Nut Brown Maid, by Mr Bates, With a New Air and Chorus. Music by Dr Arne. Receipts: #203 12s. Charges: #68 2s. 6d. Profits to Palmer: #13 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Baddeley

Dance: The Sailors Revels, as17740920

Monologue: End of Play: Henry and Emma. Henry-Brereton; Eugenius-Palmer; Venus-Mrs Smith; Emma-Mrs Baddeley

934
19 December 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: Gamester-Reddish; Stukely-Palmer; Jarvis-Aickin; Bates-Packer; Dawson-Usher; Lewson-Brereton, first time; Cbarlotte-Miss Hopkins; Lucy-Miss Platt; Mrs Beverley-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-LaRiviere, Fontaine, Sga Crespi, Mrs Sutton

935
15 January 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Performance Comment: Scapin-Wilson, first time; Thrifty-Cushing; Leander-Young; Octavian-Thompson; Shift-Wewitzer; Sly-Bates; Gripe-Quick; Lucia-Mrs Masters; Clara-Mrs Poussin.
Cast
Role: Sly Actor: Bates

Dance: End Tragedy: Mirth and Jollity, as17760102

936
27 April 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: Thomas(to be imitated after the manner of Weston)-A Young Gentleman, first appearance on any stage; Whittle-Wilson; Kecksey-Lee Lewes; Sir Patrick-Mahon; Bates-Fearon; Nephew-Young; Widow Brady (with an Epilogue Song)-Mrs Lessingham.
Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Fearon

Monologue: Interlude. Taken from The Register Office. End of Play, By Particular Desire and for that night only. The New Character-Mrs Gardener , her first appearance here these 2 years; Melpomene-Miss Francis

Entertainment: After Interlude: Epilogue-Lee Lewes in the character of Harlequin (Written by late Dr Goldsmith) which will conclude with an escape thro' the Tub, as in the Pantomime of Mother Shipton

Dance: End Epilogue: The Merry Sailors, as17760314

937
30 April 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Quality

Performance Comment: Foppington-Woodward; Young Fashion-Lee Lewes; Sir John Friendly-Young; Bull-Booth; Lory-Cushing; Coupler-Thompson; Porter-Fearon; Shoemaker-Jones; La Varole-Wewitzer; Taylor-Bates; Mendlegs-Ledger; Sir Tunbelly Clumsy-Wilson; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Sempstress-Mrs White; Miss Hoyden (with a Song)-Mrs Wilson , first appearance that stage.
Cast
Role: Taylor Actor: Bates

Dance: End: Mirth and Jollity, as17760102

938
01 May 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Baddeley

Dance: V: A Comic Dance, as17760415

939
04 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets deliver'd by Mrs Lampe, and Mrs Jones, Mrs Masters (formerly Miss Lalauze), Besford, Miss Cranfield, Bates, Widow Wise, Widow Emery, and Ledger, and those deliver'd for She Stoops to Conquer will be taken. Doors open half past 5. To begin at half past 6 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Quality

Cast
Role: Taylor Actor: Bates

Dance: I: A Minuet-Holloway, Miss Cranfield; II: A Minuet-Dagueville, Mrs Masters (Daughter of the late Mr Lalauze)

940
17 September 1776 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: Whittle-Parsons; Kecksy-Johnson; Nephew-L'Estrange; Bates-Fearon; Thomas-Waldron; Sir Patrick O'Neal-Palmer; Irish Widow, with Epilogue song-Mrs Greville.
Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Fearon

Entertainment: End: Bucks Have at Ye All-Palmer

941
14 November 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ethelinda; Or, The Royal Convert

Afterpiece Title: The Seraglio

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Mattocks, Reinhold, Quick, Dunstall, Leoni, Miss Dayes, Mrs Green, A Young Lady (who never appeared on any stage) (Miss Wewitzer), Miss Brown. Cast from text (T. Evans, 1776): Abdallah-Mattocks; Reef-Reinhold; Venture-Quick; Goodwill-Dunstall; Frederick-Leoni; Hassan-Baker; Gunnel-Bates; Williams-Thompson; Polly-Miss Dayes; Curtis-Mrs Green; Elmira-Miss Wewitzer; Lydia-Miss Brown.
Cast
Role: Gunnel Actor: Bates

Music: V: the Original Music for the Sacrifice by Purcell-

942
14 December 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: Whittle-Parsons; Kecksey-Dodd; Sir Patrick O'Neale-Moody; Bates-Baddeley; Nephew-Davies; Thomas-Burton; Widow Brady (with an Epilogue Song)-Mrs Greville.
Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Baddeley

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17761031

943
27 December 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: Prospero-Hull; Ferdinand-Mattocks; Stephano-Wilson; Trincalo-Quick; Caliban-Dunstall; Gonzalo-Fearon; Alonzo-L'Estrange; Sebastian-Robson; Antonio-Booth; Master-Thompson; Boatswain-Bates; Miranda-Miss Brown; Juno-Miss Dayes; Ceres-Miss Valois; Ariel-Mrs Farrell.
Cast
Role: Boatswain Actor: Bates

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolicks

Dance: In: Aldridge, Miss Valois, others [the dance was composed by Aldridge (Morning Chronicle, 26 Nov. 1779), and danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances]; In afterpiece: as17761226

944
08 January 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Performance Comment: Duke-Lee (1st appearance in that character); Angelo-Hull; Escalus-Fearon; Claudio-Wroughton; Provost-L'Estrange; Friar Peter-Davis; Thomas-Booth; Constable-Wewitzer; Clown-Dunstall; Abhorson-Bates; Barnardine-Jones; Lucio-Woodward; Mariana-Miss Leeson; Juletta-Mrs Whitefield; Francisca-Miss Green; Isabella-Mrs Jackson (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Abhorson Actor: Bates

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: As17770107

945
17 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: The Gamester-Reddish; Stukely-Palmer; Jarvis-Aickin; Bates-Packer; Dawson-Norris; Lewson-Farren; Charlotte-Miss Hopkins; Lucy-Miss Platt; Mrs Beverly-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Song: End: The Soldier tir'd With war's Alarms-Miss Abrams

946
03 September 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Henderson (1st appearance in this play [in London]); Justice Shallow-Blissett; Sir Hugh Evans-Parsons; Dr Caius-Jackson; Mr Page-Fearon; Master Slender-Bates; Fenton-R. Palmer; Host-Massey; Bardolph-Kenny; Pistol-Stevens; Robin-Master Hitchcock; Simple-Master Pulley; Ford-Palmer; Mrs Page-Mrs Davies; Ann Page-Mrs Colles; Hostess-Mrs Love; Mrs Ford-Mrs Lisley (late Miss Barsanti).
Cast
Role: Master Slender Actor: Bates

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

947
09 February 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: Sir Patrick O'Neale-Bailey; Whittle-Shepherd; Kecksy-Benson; Bates-Wallace; Thomas-Massey; Widow Brady (with the original Epilogue Song)-Mrs Massey.
Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Wallace

Song: Entertainments of singing-Mrs Mapples;, particularly the favourite song of The Soldier tir'd of war's alarms-Mrs Mapples

948
30 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Performance Comment: Biron (1st time)-Lewis; Count Baldwin-Clarke; Carlos-Whitfield; Belford-L'Estrange; Sampson-Dunstall; Friend-Smith; Pedro-Bates; Child-Miss Francis; Villeroy (1st time)-Wroughton; Nurse-Mrs Poussin; Isabella-Mrs Barry (1st appearance in that character at this theatre).
Cast
Role: Pedro Actor: Bates

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: 2nd piece: Aldridge. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Song: III: Epithalamium-; the vocal parts-Robson, Miss Dayes

949
09 April 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: Whittle-Benson; Kecksey-Shepherd; Nephew-Nelson; Bates-Bowles; Sir Patrick O'Neale-Bailey; Thomas-Massey; The Widow (with the Epilogue Song)-Mrs Massey.
Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Bowles

Entertainment: Monologue. End I afterpiece: an Epilogue-Master Benson

950
02 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: Whittle-Parsons; Sir Patrick O'Neale-Moody; Nephew-Davies; Bates-Baddeley; Thomas-Burton; Kecksey-Dodd; Widow Brady (with an Epilogue Song)-Miss Walpole (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Baddeley

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771111; End: Hornpipe-Miss Walpole; End I afterpiece: The Sailors' Revels, as17780425