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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Boy"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Boy")') 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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1780 results for: Keyword - Boy
We found 1488 matches on Roles/Actors, 330 matches on Performance Title, 312 matches on Performance Comments, 180 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

951
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

952
04 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

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

953
06 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

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

954
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

955
12 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: The English Boy, English Girl

956
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

957
14 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Dance: The English Boy and Girl

958
08 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

959
26 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

960
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

961
06 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: School Boy

962
20 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

963
15 March 1750 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

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

964
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

965
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

966
12 February 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Shuter

Dance: As17551114; Fingalian-Miss Hilliard

967
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

968
17 November 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

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

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

969
31 March 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Shuter

Dance: As17570103

970
27 May 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Shuter

Dance: I: Country Lass, as17570512; II: Dutch Sailor, as17570525; III: Dutch Peasant, as17570512

971
21 February 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

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

Dance: SSicilian Peasants, as17571217

972
04 May 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Shuter

Dance: II: Tambourine-Miss Vallois; IV: Dutch Dance-Miss Vallois; End: By Particular Desire, The Roast Beef of Old England, as17580420

973
11 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The School-Boy

Dance: II: Hornpipe (2nd time)-Mlle Capdeville; IV: The Provincial Sailors, as17610508

974
23 April 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: I: A New Serious Dance-Miss Wilford, Miss Valois; II: Handel's Water Piece-, in which, by particular desire; Kettle@Drum-Mr Poitier; III: A New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Miss Wilford; IV: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212; V: The Academy for Dancing-Poitier, Mrs Vernon; in which will be introduc'd a Minuet-Miss Valois, in boy's Cloaths, Miss Wilford

975
31 August 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: School@Boy-Weston; Rakish-Shuter. Short bill, see17670807 .
Cast
Role: School@Boy Actor: Weston

Dance: End: Miss Froment