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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.

801
02 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Smith. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #103 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical History Of Don Quixote, Part Ii

Song: Leveridge, Rawlins, Cook, New Boy

Dance: As17150425 Also Dutch Skipper-delaGarde, Miss Russell; Harlequin and Two Punches-duPre, Moreau, Bovil

802
03 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Russell. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts. #83 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Beau Demolished

Song: A Pastoral-Leveridge, the New Boy

Dance: As17150425

803
06 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sea Voyage; Or, Commonwealth Of Women

Song: Leveridge, Rawlins, New Boy

Music: As17150502

Dance: As17150502

804
09 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Song: The New Boy

Music: A New Piece of Musick (never perform'd before)-Bannister, the two Bastions, Stockdale

Dance: delaGarde, Moreau, Bovil, Mrs Bullock (the late Miss Russell); Swedish Dal Karl and His Wife-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock

805
10 May 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: Thurmond, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell

806
10 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Song: Leveridge, the New Boy

Dance: delaGarde, duPre, Moreau, Bovil, Mrs Bullock; Also Swedish Dal Karl and His Wife, as17150509

807
13 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wood. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Weekly Pocket, 14 May: There has been a great Disturbance at...Lincoln's-Inn-Fields this Week, by the Means of some Gentlemen, who were in the Interest of the other House, and made Use of Catcalls to interrupt and ridicule their Theatrical Entertainments; but the Disturbers of the Peace were soon silenc'd. Receipts: #125 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Song: Trumpet Song-the little boy; the Instrumental part-Mr Grenoust; Vocal Part-Mr Rawlins

Music: Violin solo-Matthew Dubourg

Dance: delaGarde, Bovil, Mrs Bullock; Harlequin and a Countryman-; Swedish Dal Karl and His Wife, as17150509

808
18 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Schoolding and Mrs Rogers. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #59 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage Hater Match'd

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-Leveridge, Reading, New Boy

Dance: As17150512; Swedish Dal Karl and His Wife, as17150509

809
03 June 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Rawlins and Cook. Tickets for The Amorous Widow taken this Day. Receipts: #66 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Song: Dialogue between a Drunken Smith and his Wife-Cook, Newberry; Trumpet Song-Rawlins never perform'd on that Stage before; Two/Part Song-The Two Boys never perform'd but once before

Dance: As17150512; Also Dutch Skipper-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock

810
14 June 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Pit Doorkeepers. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: [By Benjamin Griffin.] Never perform'd before. Receipts: #100 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Valentinian

Cast
Role: Valentinian Actor: Thurmond being the first Time of his Acting since his Arrival from Ireland

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Song: Cook, Rawlins, Little Boy

Dance: delaGarde, duPre, Mrs Bullock; Scaramouch and French Peasant-a Gentleman for his own Diversion

811
01 October 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Song: The Boy

Dance: As17150930; Punchanello-Shaw

812
22 October 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #39

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Song: Randal, the Boy; Trumpet Song-Mrs Fletcher,accompanied Mr Granno

Dance: Spanish Entry, Dutch Skipper-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock; Punchanello-Shaw

813
27 October 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

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

Dance: As17151014

814
31 October 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Keating. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #64 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Song: The Boy; Trumpet Song, as17151022

Dance: delaGarde, Moreau, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross

815
05 November 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Song: Mrs Fletcher, Randal, the Boy

Dance: As17151029

816
18 November 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Petticoat Plotter

Song: Randal, the Boy

Music: A flute solo-John Baston

Dance: delaGarde, Thurmond Jr, Shaw, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Cross

817
12 December 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Song: Randal, the Boy

Dance: As17151104

818
03 February 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Woman's Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Song: Randal, Mrs Fitzgerald, the Boy

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Schoolding

819
23 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock Jr. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #19 14s. 6d. and tickets #71 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Song: Mrs Fitzgerald, The Boy

Dance: As17151217

820
02 May 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Smith and Corey. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #18 11s. 6d. and tickets #67 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens; Or, The Man Hater

Music: In it a Masque of Vocal and Instrumental Musick (compos'd by the late Mr Henry Purcell)-Leveridge, Cook, Reading, the Boy, Mrs Cross

Song:

Dance: Smith's Daughter who never perform'd on the Stage before

821
18 May 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Younger. By His Royal Highness's Command. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Dryden. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Song: A New Cantata-Turner

Music: A New Concerto on the Violin-Bitty

Dance: As17151122; Dutch Skipper-Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger

822
04 January 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was Alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

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

823
23 October 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline; Or, The Fatal Wager

Song: As17181006

Dance: delaGarde's Two Boys

824
05 May 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Gibbs, the Treasurer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Song: a Boy, who never perform'd on any Stage before

825
12 May 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Santlow; A new Dance-Miss Lindar, a Boy that never perform'd on the Stage before; Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith