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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Rees"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Rees")') 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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1005 results for: Keyword - Rees
We found 1583 matches on Roles/Actors, 242 matches on Performance Comments, 13 matches on Performance Title, 9 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

876
19 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lover's Vows

Cast
Role: Farmer Actor: Rees

Afterpiece Title: Saturday Night at Sea

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Entertainment: Monologue End: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Mrs Pope

877
22 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good-natured Man

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Afterpiece Title: The Hermione

Cast
Role: Carpenter Actor: Rees
Role: Midshipman Actor: Rees

Song: End: A Chapter of Fashions (never performed; written by T. Dibdin Jun.)-Munden; The Tight Little Lads of the Ocean (never performed; written by the Author of The Bundle of Proverbs)-Fawcett

878
14 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Liberal Opinions

Cast
Role: Bailiff Actor: Rees

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Afterpiece Title: The Horse and the Widow

Dance: As18000501

Song: As18000501

879
16 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Liberal Opinions

Cast
Role: Bailiff Actor: Rees

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Afterpiece Title: The Horse and the Widow

Dance: As18000501

Song: As18000501

880
23 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

Cast
Role: Trusty Actor: Rees

Dance: In 1st piece: Hornpipe-Cuerton; End 2nd piece: The Minuet de la Cour, a Favorite Scotch Pas Deux-Klanert, Mrs Watts

881
24 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Cast
Role: Trusty Actor: Rees

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: In course of Evening: Love thou maddening Power-Mrs Trevor; Old Towler-Incledon

882
28 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wives As They Were, And Maids As They Are

Afterpiece Title: St

Cast
Role: Carpenter Actor: Rees
Role: Midshipman Actor: Rees

Afterpiece Title: The Hermione

Cast
Role: Carpenter Actor: Rees
Role: Midshipman Actor: Rees

Song: End I 1st piece: a Song-Master Gray; End II: The Muffin Man (Written by T. Dibdin, and composed by Moorehead)-Dighton (1st appearance on this stage); End 1st piece: the celebrated Laughing Song-Dighton

883
29 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Afterpiece Title: The Hermione

Cast
Role: Carpenter Actor: Rees
Role: Midshipman Actor: Rees

Song: End IV: Old Towler-Incledon; End: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; The Fight off Camperdown-Townsend

884
03 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Cast
Role: Flummery Actor: Rees

885
05 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lover's Vows

Cast
Role: Farmer Actor: Rees

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Song: End II: The Fox Stag and Hare (written by T. Dibdin, and composed by Davy)-Incledon; End IV: The Anchor Smiths-Townsend; End: The Red Cross Knight-Incledon, Linton; afterpiece: I am a jolly gay Pedlar, as18000308Come every jovial fellow, as18000308O ever in my bosom live-Miss Wheatley, Mrs Atkins

Entertainment: End: a Variety of Imitations-Rees

886
06 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter of Naples

Afterpiece Title: St

Cast
Role: Carpenter Actor: Rees
Role: Midshipman Actor: Rees

Song: End: the following songs illustrative of the Whims and Sports of Bartholomew Fair: Raro Raro-Delpini; The Wind blew fresh and fair-Townsend; By the gaily circling Glass-Linton; a New Song (composed by Walsh, and written in Commemoration of His Majesty's Providential Escape [from assassination; see dl, 15 May])-Incledon

887
10 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Ben Budge Actor: Rees

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: III: Hornpipe in Fetters-Blurton

888
11 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Cast
Role: Jacob Actor: Rees

Afterpiece Title: The Turnpike Gate

Cast
Role: Sailors Actor: Rees, Klanert

Dance: End: New Hornpipe-a Young Lady (1st appearance in public [Miss Rogers]); End I afterpiece: A Scotch Pas Deux-Jackson, Miss Bologna

Song: After 1st dance: The Little Farthing Rushlight-Master Standen

889
31 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Entertainment: Imitations End: Theatrical Imitations Serious, Comic, Vocal, and Rhetorical,-Rees; Duologue End afterpiece: Hobby@Horses Describing the Statesman's Hobby, the Ladies' Hobby, the Lawyer's Hobby, the Physician's Hobby, the Manager's Hobby, and R. Palmer's own Hobby,-R. Palmer, Iliff

890
12 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Song: End I afterpiece: a song (composed by Giordani)-Miss George

Entertainment: End: Imitations-Rees

891
26 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: A Nicknackatory

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Cast
Role: Officers Actor: Williamson, Rees, Abbot, Wilde, Rayner, King

Dance: 2nd piece to conclude with: Highland Festivity, as17951125

Song: 1st piece: Vocal Parts-Linton, Williamson, Blurton, Street, Abbot, Holland, Rees, Lee, Little, Miss Logan, Miss Ives, Miss Leserve, Miss Walcup, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Masters, Mrs Watts

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Monsieur Tonson (Founded on Fact, and recited at Free-Mason's Hall, last Winter, with universal Applause)-Fawcett

892
22 May 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Village Fete

Afterpiece Title: The School for Wives

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Song: In: Chorusses, as17970518; End II 2nd piece: The Sea Storm by G. A. Stevens (Cease rude Boreas blust'ring railer)-; End IV: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; In 3rd piece: Come every jovial Fellow-Gray, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; O ever in my bosom live-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain

Entertainment: End 2nd piece: a variety of Imitations-Rees (1st appearance this season [i.e. as imitator])

893
12 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lie Of The Day

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Song: In Course Evening: The Storm-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue End II: personal address to the Audience in a Poetical Composition-O'Keeffe (written by Himself for the Occasion); End: Imitations-Rees

894
13 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End I: Hornpipe-Miss Rogers (2nd appearance on any stage see18000611); In course Evening: by Permission of the Proprietors of the Royal Circus, a new Anacreontic Pantomimical Ballet, composed by Byrne, The Animated Statue Principal Characters-Byrne, Mrs Byrne, Platt, Mrs Watts, the three Miss Adams', Master Byrne

Song: End: Laughing Song-Dighton

Entertainment: After Singing: Imitations-Rees (positively his last appearance on any stage)

895
12 September 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Cast
Role: Robbers Actor: Bannister, Davies, Chapman, Rees, Mathews, Chambers, Lyons, Abbott

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

896
09 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival

Cast
Role: Britons strike home Actor: Bannister, Incledon, Follett, Blurton, Lee, Letteney, Reeve, Rees

Afterpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

897
03 February 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magician No Conjurer

Cast
Role: Countrymen Actor: Thompson, Cross, Rees

Afterpiece Title: Lovers' Quarrels

898
04 February 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magician No Conjurer

Cast
Role: Countrymen Actor: Thompson, Cross, Rees

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

899
07 February 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magician No Conjurer

Cast
Role: Countrymen Actor: Thompson, Cross, Rees

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

900
28 April 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Notoriety

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Cast
Role: Shepherds Actor: Powel, Follett, Linton, Cross, Rees, Noble, Letteney, Rowson, Blurton, Milburne, Simmons, Coombes

Entertainment: Monologues Preceding: [a New Address, She Couldn't Help It-[by Harley]; End: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Mrs Esten; [Imitations End II: Dramatic Imitations [Comic, Vocal and Tragic,-Mrs Wells