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1565 results for: Keyword - The Little? Boy
We found 589 matches on Event Comments, 561 matches on Performance Title, 519 matches on Performance Comments, 3 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

351
12 December 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17461124

352
18 December 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17461124

353
29 December 1746 @ James Street

Event Comment: A Concert, etc. Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. [The usual synopsis of the play is given.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Anna Bullen; Or, Virtue Betray'd

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

354
31 December 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17461124

355
03 February 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17461124

356
12 February 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17461124

357
13 February 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: Mr Miles, Mrs Miles, Master Morgan, Miss Baker

358
24 April 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Song: I: Freedom and Ease a song in the Anacreontic Style-Leveridge; II: A Cantata call'd Who will buy my Heart by Stanley-Beard; IV: Mirth gives Courage-Leveridge; V: A Gratulatory Epilogue-Leveridge

Dance: III: As17461231; V: The English Boy and Girl [LaLauze's scholars; see17470423

359
04 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Dupre and Roberts on a one-half value of tickets and minimum charge basis. Receipts: #12 6s. 6d. leaving a deficit for the minimum charge of #14 11s. 6d. Tickets: Dupre #45 13s. (Boxes 36; Pit 191; Gallery 80); Roberts #78 19s. (Boxes 50; Pit 359; Gallery 126). Half value of total #62 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Cast
Role: Hothead Actor: Marten

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Song: II: Liberty Alone-(from the Oratorio of Judas Maccabaeus sung by Roberts); IV: Come Smiling Liberty-Roberts

Dance: III: Peasant Dance-Matthews, Miss Vandersluys; V: The English Boy, English Girl

360
06 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Marten and White. Receipts: #15 8s., plus #157 16s. from tickets, but the distribution unspecified. Charges #60. James White, however, paid over his half of the deficiency (#22 6s.) immediately (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Tickets sold at the door will not be admitted. (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: PPeasant Dance, as17470504; English Boy, English Girl

361
07 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: English Boy and Girl; By Desire, Hornpipe-Matthews

362
12 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Benefit on one-half value of tickets basis to nine ticket holders. The General Advertiser notice lists beneficiaries as Harrington (Prompter); Stede, Carr, Mrs Bland, Mrs Rowley.] Tickets deliver'd by Mrs Daniel, Mrs Dumont, &c will be taken. /For Box Pit Gallery Value Half-Value/Harrington 7 29 22 #8 6s. #4 3s./Stede 7 52 59 #15 9s. #7 14s. 6d./Carr 6 53 46 #14 1s. #7 0s. 6d./Mrs Rowley 27 77 44 #22 14s. #11 7s./Mrs Dumont 36 31 32 #16 17s. #8 8s. 6d./Mrs Bland 9 56 91 #19 15s. #9 17s. 6d./Mrs Dupre 5 33 42 #10 8s. #5 4s./Mrs Daniel .. 45 109 #17 13s. #8 16s. 6d./Mrs Hitchcock 34 58 31 #20 6s. ........./Totals 131 434 476 #145 9s. #62 11s. 6d./ [Mrs Hitchcock seems to have received the full value of her tickets.] This Day is Publish'd A Treatis on the Passions so far as they regard the stage, with a critical inquiry into the Theatrical Merit of Mr G k, Mr Q n, and Mr B y, the first considered in the part of Lear, the last two oppos'd in Othello. By S. Foote, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: The English Boy, English Girl

363
13 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: The English Boy and Girl; Also, by desire, a Minuet-Rector, Mrs Gondou

364
14 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command. Present the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Prince George, Prince Edward, and Prince William, with the Lady Augusta and Lady Elizabeth (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #87 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Queen Katherine Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: With the Representation of the Coronation o Actor:
Role: Also the Military Ceremony of the Champion in W Actor: and all other decorations proper to the play.-General Advertiser.
Role: and all other decorations proper to the play. Actor: General Advertiser.

Dance: The English Boy and Girl

365
08 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

366
26 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

367
03 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Music: I: Scots Sonato on Flute-the Child; IV: A Piece of Music on Flute-the Child

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027; III: The Savoyards, as17480920

Ballet: V: Vertumnus and Pomona. Cooke, Anne Auretti

368
06 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: with a new Masquerade Dance proper to the p Actor: .
Role: Apothecary Actor: Simpson
Role: with a new dance proper to the play Actor: Cooke, Miss Janneton Auretti.

Afterpiece Title: School Boy

369
20 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: There has been sometime in rehearsal the Emperour of the Moon, alter'd into two acts, which will be perform'd on Monday next, with the Music, New Dances, Scenes, Machines and other Decorations. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #130 9s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: with a new Masquerade Dance proper to the p Actor: .
Role: Apothecary Actor: Simpson
Role: with a new dance proper to the play Actor: Cooke, Miss Janneton Auretti.

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

370
15 March 1750 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Rivals; or, The School Boy

371
27 October 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: Schoolboy-Shuter; Major Rakish-Dunstall; Young Rakish-Anderson; Benedict-Holtom; Friendly-White; Tom-R. Smith; Lettice-Mrs Baker; Lady Morelove-Mrs Pitt.
Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Shuter

372
16 December 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: As17551027, but onlySchoolboy-Shuter.
Cast
Role: onlySchoolboy Actor: Shuter.
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Shuter

Dance: LLes Peasants Gallant, as17551203; also By Desire Fingalian Dance, as17551126

373
12 February 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: This day Published The Englishman Returned from Paris, as it is performed at Covent Garden. By Samuel Foote, Esq: Printed for Paul Vaillant, at 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Thessalus Actor: Anderson
Role: In which will be introduc'd the Triumphal Entry Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Shuter

Dance: As17551114; Fingalian-Miss Hilliard

374
02 March 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Shuter

Dance: New Ballet call'd% Les Statues Animees-Guerin, Mlle Capdeville

375
17 November 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage; Or, The Innocent Adultery

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: Schoolboy-Shuter; Major Rakish-Dunstall; Lady Manlove-Mrs Pitt.
Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Shuter

Dance: As17561023

Song: Mrs Chambers