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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Company of Children"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Company of Children")') 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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2595 results for: Keyword - Company of Children
We found 1972 matches on Event Comments, 440 matches on Performance Title, 253 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

126
27 April 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Dance: End II: Wooden Shoe Dance-Sandham's Children; III: Muzette-Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; IV: Turkish Dance-Thurmond, Boval, Lally, Haughton, Duplessis

127
05 May 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Dance: I: Muzette-Rainton, Miss Robinson; III: Wooden Shoe Dance-Sandham's Children; IV: Dutch Skipper-Sandham; V: La Pierette-Roger, Mrs Brett

Music: II: Corelli's 8th Concerto-

128
25 May 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Dance: PPastoral-Lally, Mrs Walter; Peasant-Sandham's Children; Muzette-Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; Pierette-Roger, Mrs Brett

Music: CConcerto on the Little Flute-Baston

129
06 April 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: PPastoral-Miss Rogers, a Child of Nine Years of Age, Scholar to Mlle Salle, it being the first Time of her APpearance on the Stage; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Salle

130
04 August 1736 @ Tottenham Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Of Merlin, The British Enchanter; Or, The Child Has Found His Father

131
19 March 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: In I: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; I: Serious Dance, concluding with a Minuet-two Misses Scott; II: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; IV: Comic Dance-called Punch in Love with Dame Ragonde Accompanied by her Children-Nivelon, Lalauze, both in Wooden Shoes

Song: III: A New Song-Beard

132
19 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Music: With theOriginal Musick, carefully reviv'd,-Mrs Clive, Ray, Stoppelaer, Rainton, Este, Raftor, Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Willis, Mrs Marshall

Dance: II: Two Pierrots-Livier, Pelling; III: Punch's Dance-a Child of Six Years old that never performed on the Stage before; V: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve

Song: I: The Lady's Lamentation, as17370503

133
15 December 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Grand Ballet-Mlle Roland the Elder; II: Serious Dance-Master Charles Poitier; a Child of Five Years Old, the first time of his appearing on the Stage. III: Serious Dance-Poitier, Mlle Roland the Elder; IV: French Peasants-Poitier, Mlle Roland the Elder, Master Charles Poitier; End Afterpiece: Minuet-Poitier, Mlle Roland the Elder, Charles Poitier

Song: II: Duet-Mrs Lampe, Miss Young

Music: V: By Desire, a Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Poitier

134
09 February 1744 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Music: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Song: An English and an Italian Song-the sister of the above lady, a child of nine years; the whole to conclude with: the Coronation Anthem God Save the King-; Trumpet-Valentine Snow

135
10 March 1746 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Brett, the surprising voice of the famous African who sings several songs, with Mock Voices, particularly in Imitation of a young Child.; Juggling-Yates

136
08 September 1746 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Audlin; Or, The Merchant's Daughter Of Brastol; With The Comical Humours Of Roger, Antonio's Man

Song: Batt Platt, the original Mad Tom

Dance: Sig and Signora Capuchino, Mynheer Drollelo, being children lately arrived from Holland, who never appeared on any Stage

137
20 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: I: Flute solo-; III: Music-the Child

Dance: V: Savoyards-Matthews, Mrs Addison

138
06 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Music: II: By Desire a piece of Music-the Child

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17480920

139
22 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Music: CConcerto on Flute-the Child

140
25 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17480920

Music: SScotch Sonata on Flute-the Child

141
12 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Music: I: Scots Sonato on Flute-the Child

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore-; III: Italian Cabaret, as17481109; V: Vertumnus and Pomona-Cooke, Anne Auretti, Matthews

142
18 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Music: II: Scots Sonato on Flute-the Child

Dance: IV: Italian Cabaret, as17481109

143
23 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027; V: Vertumnus and Pomona, as17481112

Music: IV: Scots Sonato on Flute-the Child

144
25 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Music: I: Scots Sonato on Flute-the Child

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027; IV: The Sailors' Revels-Matthews; End: Vertumnus and Pomona, as17481112

145
26 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Music: V: Scots sonato on Flute-the Child

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17480920

146
28 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Music: III: Piece of Music By Desire-the Child

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027; IV: Savoyards, as17480920; V: Vertumnus and Pomona, as17481112

147
01 December 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Music: A Piece of Musick-the Child between the parts of the Auction

148
05 December 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Music: A Piece of Musick-the Child

149
26 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Emperour of the Moon

Music: A Piece of Music-the Child

Dance: TThe Sailors Revels-Mathews

150
10 January 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Music: I: (By desire) a piece of Music-the Child

Dance: III: Characters de la Dance-Cooke, Anne Auretti, Janneton Auretti; IV: Italian Cabaret, as17481109