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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Chesire Boy"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Chesire 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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779 results for: Keyword - Chesire Boy
We found 335 matches on Performance Title, 315 matches on Performance Comments, 185 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

251
23 April 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Peasants-French Boy and Girl; II: A new Grand Dance-Mlle Roland; III: Je ne scay quoy-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; IV: Kilkenny-Glover, Mlle Roland; V: Scotch Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

252
24 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Tambourine-Master Gillier; a Boy of Six and Scholar of Muilment, his first appearance on the stage. II: Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: A new Serious Dance-Muilment; IV: Minuet-Master Gillier, Miss Morrison; V: Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; In Afterpiece: Muilment

Song: I: Beard; IV: English Captain (as1740032m-Beard

253
25 April 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Minuet-Master Gillier, Miss Morrison; IV: Swiss Dance-the French Boy and Girl; V: Scotch Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

254
28 April 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers

Dance: I: Peasants-French Boy and Girl; II: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; End Afterpiece: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

Song: The Songs in Masonry as usual-

255
30 April 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great

Dance: In Afterpiece: A new dance-the French Boy and Girl; Scotch Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

256
16 May 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers

Dance: SSwiss Dance-the French Boy and Girl; Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

257
20 May 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: I: A Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; II: Swiss Dance-the French Boy and Girl; III: Kilkenny-Glover, Mlle Roland; IV: Je ne scay quoy-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

258
21 May 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Grand Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; IV: Swiss Dance-the French Boy and Girl; V: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

259
19 September 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: MMiller and Wife, The Swiss-M Michel, Mlle Michel (the French Boy and Girl); Villeneuve, Miss Oates

260
24 September 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: MMiller and Wife, The Swiss-French Boy and Girl

261
05 May 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Wooden Shoe Dance-French Boy, lately arrived; IV: Comic Dance-Richardson, Mlle Ozanne; V: Pierots-Richardson, Delagarde

262
22 August 1741 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thamas Kouli Kan, The Persian Hero; Or, The Distress'd Princess: With The Descent Of Harlequin From The Sun, And His Adventures On Earth

Entertainment: Singing, Dancing-Chettle, Mrs Dunstall; And the surprizing Performances of the famous little Prussian Posture Boy, lately arrived from Berlin

263
26 September 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: TThe Swiss-M Mechell, Mlle Mechell (the French Boy and Girl) 1st time; The Peasant-M Mechell

264
27 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Song: AA Chacon a Boire-Leveridge

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Lalauze, Delagarde

265
02 November 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: Schoolboy-Woodward; Major Rakish-Hippisley; Young Rakish-Hale.
Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Woodward

Dance: II: Two Pierrots, as17411027

Song: III: A Chacun a Boire-Leveridge

266
11 December 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Woodward

Dance: I: A Scotch Dance, as17411130; II: Comic Dance, as17411209; III: Matelot, as17411209; V: Hornpipe-Taylor

Song: IV: Mr Bennet

267
16 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Woodward

Dance: As17420215

268
01 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Woodward

Dance: LLa Provencale, as17420212; Chacone, as17411230; Tyrolean Dance, By Command, as17420206

269
21 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: A New Peasant Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste; III: A New Dance call'd the Quarrelling Lovers Reconciled-Dubuisson, Mlle Bonneval; IV: New Comic Dance, as17420419 V: A New Dance call'd Les Matelots-Dubuisson, Mlle Bonneval

270
03 May 1742 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

271
26 August 1742 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humours Of Covent Garden; Or, The Covent Garden Tragedy

Afterpiece Title: The Universal Monarch Defeated; or, The Queen of Hungary Triumphant

Entertainment: While the booth is filling, the Audience will be diverted by Curious Performances-Ruffian Boy

272
19 November 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: Schoolboy-Woodward; Major Rakish-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Woodward

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; La Provencale, as17421001; Grand Ballet, as17421108

273
03 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Woodward

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17421120

274
22 December 1742 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17421213

275
04 May 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Woodward

Dance: TThe Happy Lovers, as17421006; Tambourine-Cooke