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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Young Gent"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Young Gent")') 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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4694 results for: Keyword - Young Gent
We found 3137 matches on Performance Comments, 750 matches on Author, 686 matches on Performance Title, 563 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

901
23 December 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: Several Entertainments-the Three young Graniers

902
18 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Amazons Actor: Miss Young, Miss Allen, Miss Ferguson, Miss Hippisley, Miss Morrison

Dance: III: (By desire) the Two Pierots, as17500108, but-LaLauze, Dennison his apprentice, being his 1st appearance on the stage; IV: Grand Scots Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; End of Play: Louvre, Minuet-Master Settree, a Young Lady who never appeared before, both scholars of Mr Lalauze

903
29 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Song: The Song of Sweet Echo-a young Gentleman who never sung on any stage before

904
17 April 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: Biddy-a Young Gentlewoman who never appear'd upon any stage; Flash-Dyer; Puff-Dunstall; Tag-Mrs Vincent; Fribble-Shuter, with a song in character.
Cast
Role: Biddy Actor: a Young Gentlewoman who never appear'd upon any stage

Entertainment: I: Cries of London-Shuter

Music: II: A Trio taken out of Florizel and Perdita,-Shuter, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young

Dance: IV: Italian Peasants, as17531120; End: Epilogue in Florizel and Perdita-Shuter, by Desire, in character of a Pedlar

905
01 April 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: I: The Italian Fishermen-Sg and Sga Sabatini; III: New Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini; V: A Peasant Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini, Sabatini the younger

906
22 April 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini; IV: A Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini, Sabatini the Younger; V: A Minuet-Leviez, Miss Macklin

907
13 May 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Morris; End of Play: A Minuet-Shawford, Mrs Vernon

Song: I: Miss Young

908
19 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Related Works
Related Work: The Tobacconist Author(s): Francis Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Song: I: Miss Young

909
02 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Tamer Tam'd

Song: I: Miss Young

Dance: II: A Comic Dance [dancers unspecified]-; III: A Hornpipe-Harrison; IV: A New Comic Dance-

910
05 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Cast
Role: Young Mirabel Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Song: I: Miss Young; IV: Beard

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Walker

911
09 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Performance Comment: Beau-Austin; Toyman-Burton; First Gentleman-Ackman; Second Gentleman-Sturt; Third Gentleman-Walker; Old Men-Taswell, Clough; Ladies-Miss Minors, Miss Hippisley, Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Mills; After which a Hornpipe-Choice Spirit from Comus's Court.
Cast
Role: First Gentleman Actor: Ackman
Role: Second Gentleman Actor: Sturt
Role: Third Gentleman Actor: Walker

Song: I: Miss Young

Dance: AA Comic Dance-

912
21 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: I: Miss Young

913
25 January 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Pigmalion; or, The Statue Metamorphosed

Afterpiece Title: , B, By Desire, The Battle of Rosbach, the whole to conclude with Bryan's song in honour of that day sung by Kear

Dance: I: Rural Dance-Master Settree, Miss Twist; III: Scots Dance-Froment, Miss Wilkinson

Song: III: Scots Song-Lauder; IV: young Italian Gentlewoman, 1st appearance on any stage

914
16 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: III: (By Desire) Cymon and Iphigenia-Beard; [It had been advertised in advance, but this night in Act III] Cantata-Miss Young

915
18 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: By Particular Desire, an Ode call'd The Fair Monitor-Miss Macklin; , in which accompanied on the Harpsichord-Miss Macklin The Words by a Young Lady, the Music compos'd by Mr Arne Jr

Dance: A Minuet-Noverre, Miss Macklin

916
05 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Miss Young

917
13 November 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: The Spanish Dance, as17581014

Song: III: A Cantata-Miss Young

918
23 November 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess; Or, The History Of Dioclesian

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan (a Masque)

Performance Comment: Zaida-a Gentlewoman Mrs Abegg, who never appeared before.
Cast
Role: Zaida Actor: a Gentlewoman Mrs Abegg, who never appeared before.

Dance: The Original Dances-Delaistre, Granier, Lucas, Leppie, Dumai, Desse, Rochford, Gosly, Mlle Capdeville, Miss Hilliard, Mrs Granier, Mrs Viviez, Mrs Leppie, Mrs Jansolin, Miss Dawson, Mrs Dulies, Miss Vallois; and several New Songs adapted to the Opera, set by Arne-Lowe, Mattocks, Legg, Baker, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young

919
14 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss E. Young.

Song: III: A Cantata-Miss Young

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp (an Entertainment). Officer-Blakes; Prussian Soldiers-the comedians; Characters of the dance-Grimaldi, Giorgi, Sga Lucchi, Mrs Vernon

920
11 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Song: III: A Cantata-Miss Young

921
13 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Song: IV: Miss Young

Dance: III: The German Hunters, as17580916

922
19 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: III: The German Hunters, as17580916

Song: IV: Miss Young

923
14 February 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Song: III: A Cantata-Miss Young

924
02 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: II: A Bacchanalian Song-Beard; V: The new Dialogue of Jenny and Kate-Beard, Miss Young

925
21 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Heiress; or, The Antigallican

Performance Comment: Actors only listed, but Captain Hardy-Yates; Dash-Palmer; Briton Sr-Burton; Briton Jr-Packer; Harriot-Miss Barton; Laetitia-Miss Hippisley; Mrs Spruce-Mrs Bradshaw; Lady Everbloom-Mrs Simpson; Worthy-Beard; Servants, Visiting Ladies-Brownsmith, Miss Bride, Miss Arabella Young, Miss Simson, Mrs Smith (MacMillan). The Music compos'd by Mr Arne Jr.
Cast
Role: Visiting Ladies Actor: Brownsmith, Miss Bride, Miss Arabella Young, Miss Simson, Mrs Smith

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Harrison, a Young Gentleman Harrison's Scholar; End: A Minuet-Two of Harrison's Scholars