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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "The Boy"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "The 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 - The 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.

351
22 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Widow And No Widow

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Hitchcock

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17790610

352
26 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Widow And No Widow

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Hitchcock

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17790610

353
27 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Widow And No Widow

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Hitchcock

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17790531

354
29 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Flitch of Bacon, announced on playbill of 28 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Widow And No Widow

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Hitchcock

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: End: The Country Wake, as17790609 End II afterpiece: As17790531

355
30 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Summer Amusement [announced on playbill of 29 July] cannot be performed on account of the indisposition of Miss Harper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Cast
Role: Tall Actor: Boy-R. Palmer
Role: Boy Actor: R. Palmer
Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: As17790610

356
04 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Widow And No Widow

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Hitchcock

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17790610

357
06 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Cast
Role: Tall Actor: Boy-R. Palmer
Role: Boy Actor: R. Palmer
Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town; or, The Dilettante

Dance: As17790610

358
07 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Widow And No Widow

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Hitchcock

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Dance: As17790618

359
12 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Summer Amusement [announced on playbill of 11 Aug.] cannot be performed on account of Parsons's Indisposition. [Afterpiece in place of The Citizen, announced on playbill of 11 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Widow And No Widow

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Hitchcock

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: As17790610

360
20 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Cast
Role: Tall Actor: Boy-R. Palmer
Role: Boy Actor: R. Palmer
Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17790531

361
26 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Cast
Role: Tall Actor: Boy-R. Palmer
Role: Boy Actor: R. Palmer
Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: As17790818

362
28 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Widow And No Widow

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Hitchcock

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

363
04 September 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Cast
Role: Tall Actor: Boy-R. Palmer
Role: Boy Actor: R. Palmer
Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17790610

364
05 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Cast
Role: Arpasia Actor: Mrs Bates. The usual Prologue spoken by Wroughton

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Wilson
Role: Boy Actor: Master Simmons.

Song: As17831104eggar's.

365
07 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Wilson
Role: Boy Actor: Master Simmons.

366
08 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; tc 5]: Altered from [The Picture, by Philip] Massinger [by Henry Bate; incidental music by William Shield. Prologue by William Pearce (see text)]. With New Dresses, Scenery, &c. Afterpiece: Written by O'Keeffe. London Chronicle, 10 Nov., prints the words of the Chorus, and also of a song sung by Quick, Poor Hillario, once so jolly, and of one sung by Mrs Martyr, Would you view the loveliest rose. Receipts: #209 16s. (205/3; 4/13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magic Picture

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Wroughton, Quick, Edwin, Wilson, Clarke, Hull, Whitfield, Davies, Jones; Mrs Bates, Mrs Wilson, Miss Piatt, Miss Younge. [Cast from text (T. and J. Egerton [et al], 1783: Eugenius-Wroughton; Hillario-Quick; Ubaldo-Edwin; Ricardo-Wilson; Eubulus-Clarke; Baptista-Hull; Ladislaus-Whitfield; Ferdinand-Davies; Honoria-Mrs Bates; Corisca-Mrs Wilson; Acanthe-Miss Platt; Sophia-Miss Younge. Jones is unassigned.] Prologue, not listed on playbill, spoken by Aickin (see17831114) . Prologue, not listed on playbill, spoken by Aickin (see17831114) .
Cast
Role: Acanthe Actor: Miss Platt

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Wilson
Role: Boy Actor: Master Simmons.

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a Grand Chorus [Crowned with conquest] by Bannister, Reinhold, Johnstone, Mattocks, Brett, Mahon, Doyle, Darley; Mrs Bannister, Mrs Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Kennedy. [For songs, see below.]

367
12 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #315 4s. 6d. (312/0/6; 3/4/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Wilson
Role: Boy Actor: Master Simmons.

368
13 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "With respect to Mrs Siddons, in [Act v of Douglas], there was no question about her superiority [to Mrs Crawford]; and her passions were displayed in the tones of harmony; her great rival seemed to me the first of a school, in latter periods much admired, which deemed discordance the natural ally of anguish, and tortured the ear to overpower the heart" (Boaden, Siddons, 11,76). Receipts: #289 9s. (284/0/6; 5/8/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performance Comment: Douglas-Lewis; Lord Randolph-Wroughton; Glenalvon-Aickin; Officer-Thompson; Old Norval-Henderson (1st appearance in that character); Anna-Mrs Morton; Lady Randolph-Mrs Crawford (1st appearance on this stage these 5 years) .

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Wilson
Role: Boy Actor: Master Simmons.

369
14 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magic Picture

Cast
Role: Acanthe Actor: Miss Platt

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Wilson
Role: Boy Actor: Master Simmons.

Song: As17831108

370
15 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Wilson
Role: Boy Actor: Master Simmons.

371
18 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magic Picture

Cast
Role: Acanthe Actor: Miss Platt

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Wilson
Role: Boy Actor: Master Simmons.

Song: As17831108

372
20 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Wilson
Role: Boy Actor: Master Simmons.

373
21 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magic Picture

Performance Comment: As17831108, but Prologue omitted [and thereafter] .
Cast
Role: Acanthe Actor: Miss Platt

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Wilson
Role: Boy Actor: Master Simmons.

Song: As17831108, but omitted: Doyle

374
22 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Wilson
Role: Boy Actor: Master Simmons.

375
27 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performance Comment: Evander-Henderson; Dionysius-Aickin; Philotas-Whitfield; Melanthon-Hull; Areas-Fearon; Greek Herald-Davies; Calippus-Thompson; Greek Soldier-Booth; Phocion-Wroughton; Erixine-Miss Platt; Euphrasia-Mrs Crawford (1st appearance in that character these 5 years) .

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Wilson
Role: Boy Actor: Master Simmons.