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4818 results for: Keyword - the Young People
We found 3123 matches on Performance Comments, 750 matches on Author, 711 matches on Event Comments, 687 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4526
04 May 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: For the Encouragement of a Young Author. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #11 15s. 6d; tickets #13 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Cast
Role: Theseus Actor: Boheme

4527
12 June 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Richard Savage.] Edition of 1724: I think it my Duty also, to return Thanks to the Town, for their favourable Reception of this Play; and for the Applause their Indulgence bestow'd on the Performance of the Young Actors: Particularly for my own Success, in a double Capacity, as Actor and Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

4528
05 December 1723 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: London Journal, 14 Dec.: The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, the Earl and Countess of Albemarle, and a great Number of Gentry were present. [See also 23 Nov.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performance Comment: The young Gentlemen of Mr Weston's Academy.

4529
10 February 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By command of their Royal Highnesses, the young Princesses. Receipts: #151 19s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

4530
22 May 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And for the Entertainment of his Excellency Hegabdelcader Perez, Embassador from the Emperor of Fez and Morocco

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

Performance Comment: Wilks, Mills, Johnson, Wilks Jr, Norris, Harper, Penkethman, Mrs Thurmond, Mrs Younger, Mrs Heron, Mrs Baker, Miss Tenoe.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Hill, who never appear'd on this Stage before

4531
13 October 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Norris Jr, alias the Young Jubilee Dicky. Boxes 5s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

Dance: To be express'd in tne great Bills

4532
14 May 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Ray, May, Mrs Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: As17250511

4533
02 February 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Richard West.] Preface: I shall offer but one Reason more...why this Tragedy did not succeed; and that is, It was not heard. A Rout of Vandals in the Galleries intimidated the young Actresses, disturb'd the Audience, and prevented all Attention

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hecuba

4534
08 March 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King, Prince and Princess of Wales, and the young Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

4535
15 March 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King, Prince and Princess of Wales, and the young Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Scipio

4536
06 May 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Brett and Mrs Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Dance: I: Pastoral-Boval, Mrs Brett; III: La Peirrette-Roger, Mrs Brett; V: A new Saraband, Minuet-Boval, Mrs Brett

4537
14 April 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Norris and Young Rainton. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Dance: LLe Badinage Champetre-; A new Dance, Le Jeuness-

4538
13 December 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written Originally by Shakespear. [By Lewis Theobald.] Theophilus Cibber: [Booth's] Illness...returned soon after his playing King Henry VIII. He was then studying the Part of Julio in the Double Falsehood; he rehearsed it several times,-when the Play begin ready for acting, he was prevented appearing in it, by a Relapse into his former Indisposition.-The Part was supplied a few Nights by Mr Charles Williams (a promising Player, who died young) to whom Mr Booth had given the Part to study, as doubting the Certainty of his being able to appear in it himself: But, at Mr Theobald's Entreaty (backed by many Gentlemen and Ladies) he good-naturedly (but fatally) disregarded his Indisposition, which was then an intermitting Fever, and acted that Part from the fifth to the twelfth Night; which was alas! the last time of his Appearance on tle Stage.-Lives and Characters, pp. 82-83

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Double Falshood; Or, The Distrest Lovers

Related Works
Related Work: Double Falsehood; or, The Distrest Lovers Author(s): Lewis Theobald

4539
14 December 1727 @ Westminster School

Event Comment: His Royal Highness the Duke present. Mainpiece: By Terence. Afterpiece: Imitated from the Phormio by Moliere, and translated into English by Mr Otway, with some Alterations; acted by the younger King's Scholars

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phormio

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Performance Comment: The Scholars of the School; A New Prologue, Epilogue , address'd to his Royal Highness-.

4540
16 February 1728 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Performance Comment: The young Noblemen of the Westminster School. Julius Caesar-Lord Danby; Mark Anthony-Roberts; Brutus-Master Hay; Cassius-Lord Middlesex; Portia-Lord Dorset's son; Octavius-another of Lord Dorset's sons.
Cast
Role: Octavius Actor: another of Lord Dorset's sons.

4541
11 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. [There is some confusion concerning this performance. Daily Journal advertises The Fortune Hunters for its second performance, but Rich's Register gives The Beggar's Opera, 33d time; this numbering is recongnized in the bills by 16 March.] Receipts: money #35 2s.; tickets #115 17s. Probable attendance: boxes, 41 by money and 247 by tickets; stage, 12 by money; pit, 59 by money and 203 by tickets; slips, 6 by money; first gallery, 66 by money and 203 by tickets; second gallery, 74 by money. Tickets for Volpone will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

4542
20 June 1728 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Young Gentleman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

4543
14 November 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: UUniversal Spectator, 16 Nov.. On Thursday last one Leigh, a young Lad belonging to...Drury-Lane, was descending in a Machine, at the Rehearsal of the New Entertainment of Perseus and Andromeda, when the same was let down with such a Force, that the poor Boy broke both his Arms

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

4544
16 May 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Orphan Children of the late Mr Farquhar. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Tickets for Roberts, Mrs Moore, and Young Leigh taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Lover's Opera

4545
09 August 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. [The Epilogue is printed in Daily Post, 12 Aug., which added: There was a very handsome Audience, and the young Actors were dismiss'd with general Applause.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance:

Music: Harpsichord-Magnes

4546
04 March 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Cecilia Young, a Scholar of Signor Geminiani, who never yet sung in Publick. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. 6d. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

4547
12 May 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Young Author. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance:

4548
19 August 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of the King of the Cherokees, the Prince, the four Generals, and the young Captain, lately arrived from South Carolina. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

4549
13 October 1730 @ no theater listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performance Comment: Miss Young.

4550
04 March 1731 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cecilia Young. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert