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789 results for: Keyword - Boy's Choir
We found 334 matches on Performance Title, 326 matches on Performance Comments, 184 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

701
28 September 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

702
22 February 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus announced, but possibly not acted

703
03 March 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

704
09 May 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance: I: Passacaille-Miss Robinson; II: Peirette-Mrs Brett; III: Polonese-Miss Robinson, Rainton; IV: Harlequin-Rainton; V: Spanish Entry-Miss Robinson

Music: II: Serenade on Violin-Roger , to his Mistress in the Character of Pierot

705
03 June 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Dance: Miss Robinson

706
14 November 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

707
19 November 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

708
31 March 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance:

709
06 May 1731 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

710
31 October 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: King and no King; or, The Polish Squabble

Dance: IV: A new Scots Dance by Miss Wherrit. V: Two Pierrots by D'Vallois and J. Delagarde

711
01 April 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: I: English Maggot by S. Lally and Mrs Walter. II: La Badine by Lally, Mlle Grognet, S. Lally, Davenport, Topham, Olbeldiston, Mrs Walter, Mrs D'Lorme, Mrs Anderson. III: Two Pierrots by Poitier and Lally. IV: Mimut by Mlle Grognet in Boy's Cloaths and Mrs Anderson. V: La Badinage Champetre by Lally, Mrs Walter, S. Lally, Davenport, Topham, Olbeldiston, Mrs D'Lorme, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Anderson, Miss Palms

712
27 April 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Mad Captain

Dance: III: Harlequin and Harlequinette by Mons Leblanche and Mlle Larini Violante, the first time of their Performances since their arrival in this Kingdom. V: Louvre in Boy's Cloaths by Mlle Larini Violante

Song: IV: Mimick Song (by Desire) by Stoppelaer

713
28 August 1734 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: III: By Mr Delawn

Song: II: Wasever Nymphlike Rosamondby Miss Hill. V: A Song by a Gentleman

714
09 July 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

715
14 January 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Music: I: Handel's Overture of Ariadne. II: Charke's Medley Overture

Dance: II: French Peasant by Shawford. IV: Scot's Dance

Song: III: Cbast Lucretia. V: Roast Beef Song

716
14 July 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Disappointment; or, The Miser Outwitted

717
19 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Saraband-Miss Wright, Miss Morrison; II: French Peasant-Master Ferg, Miss Wright, Scholars to Leviez; AII: La Pieraite-Leviez, Mrs Thompson; IV: Grand Ballet in Comic Characters-the Lilliputians; V: Minuet-Leviez, Mrs Walter

Song: II: Beard

718
22 August 1741 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Duke; Or, The Conjuror's Bastard; With The Comical Humours Of Captain Tipple

Afterpiece Title: The Matrimonial Squabble; or, A Cure for Jealousy

Ballet: TThe Infernals (Grand Ballet). 1st Fury-Bencraft; Attendants-Clough, Richards, Gray, Wright, Bembridge, Spackman

719
08 December 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

720
22 October 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #40 (Cross). [The Epilogue Occasioned by the Two Occasional Prologues published in the General Advertiser. Fifty-one lines ending: @"No more shall either rack his brains to teaze ye@But let the Contest be who most shall please ye." [In the form of a story, mocking Garrick and Berry]: "Once on a time two boys were throwing dirt@A gentle youth was one, and one was somewhat pert.@Each to his Master with his tale retreated,@Who gravely heard their different parts repeated,@How Tom was rude, and Jack poor lad ill treated."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: III: New Running Footmen's Dance, as17501020; IV: Hornpipe-Mathews, the Little Swiss

721
12 March 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti, Harvey, Mad Camargo

722
22 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This day at noon will be published at 6d. A Letter to Mr Henry Woodward, Comedian, occasioned by his letter to the Inspector. by Simon Partridge, the facetious Cobbler of Pall Mall, and son to the late Mr Partridge, famous for his dispute with Isaac Bickerstaff. "Barbarian to attack, a chymist, Critick, Journalist, and Quack" (Anon). Printed for H. Jeffrey in Pope's Head Alley, Cornhill. [Another mock defense of Hill, casting opprobrium on him in the manner of the eightenth-century bully boys of the bathroom. A second edition of Sampson Edwards' Letter to Woodward appeared this day. See Comment, 9 Dec.] Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: TThe Italian Gardeners, as17521221; Le Matelot Basque, as17521005

723
08 April 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

724
17 December 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

725
03 February 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Taken from a Midsummer Night's Dream written by Shakespear. The Songs from Shakespear, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Lansdown, Hammond. Music-Smith. [First edition Text by John Christopher Smith; see Garrick to James Murphey French, Dec. 1756; H. Walpole to R. Bentley 23 Feb. 1755.] Besides our own Singers, we had Sg Guadagni, Sga Passerini, Miss Potier [i.e., Mrs Vernon], and Savage's Boys. Very great Applause; Sabatini danced after it and fell down, not hurt (Cross). [See A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Hands of Garrick and Colman, G. W. Stone Jr, PMLA (June 1939).] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fairies

Dance: CComic Dance-Sabatini, Sga Sabatini, Sabatini jun, his first time