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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.

926
25 October 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear, And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: As17431004, but Father Benedict-Blakes; Tom-Gray.
Cast
Role: Father Benedict Actor: Blakes
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Yates

Song: I, III: Sullivan

Dance: As17431022

927
28 October 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Father Benedict Actor: Blakes
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Yates

Song: II, IV: Sullivan

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Richard II Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: As17431015

928
14 November 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Father Benedict Actor: Blakes
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Yates

Song: As17431029

Dance: V: As17431013

929
24 November 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Martin

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Woodward
Role: Father Benedict Actor: James

Dance: SScotch Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

930
06 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Woodward
Role: Father Benedict Actor: James

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17431124

931
02 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Dr Clancy. "The Day returns, but not to me returns," Milton. This Gentleman being deprived of the Advantages of following his profession; and as the writing he had produced for the stage could not be brought out this season, the Master of the Playhouse has been so kind as to favour him with a Benefit Night: It is therefore hoped, that as this will be the first instance of any person laboring under so heavy a deprivation, performing on the stage, the Novelty, as well as the Unhappyness of his case, will engage the favour and protection of a British Audience. Note: Tickets to be had at the Temple-Exchange Coffee House in Fleet Street; Tom's Coffee House in Cornhill; St. James Coffee House, St. James's Street; Child's Coffee House, St. Paul's Churchyard and the Chapter Coffee House in Paternoster Row. Places for Boxes to be Taken at the Stage Door of the Theatre. [General Advertiser, 4 April, publish'd a fifty-six Prologue (licensed) Intended for Oedipus, acted for the Benefit of the Very Ingenious Dr Clancy, written by Mr Lockman.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Performance Comment: Tiresias the Prophet-Dr Clancy who is Blind; Oedipus-Delane; Creon-Bridges; Adrastus-Mills; Haemon-Havard; Phorbas-Berry; Aegeon-W. Giffard; Manto-Miss Budgell; Citizens-Yates, Taswell, Neale, Morgan, Arthur, Dunstall, Collins; Ghost of Laius-Woodburn; Diocles-Winstone; Pyracmon-Turbutt; Alcander-Blakes; Dymas-Green; Jocasta-Mrs Roberts; Euridice-Mrs Mills.
Cast
Role: Tiresias the Prophet Actor: Dr Clancy who is Blind

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Father Benedict Actor: Blakes
Role: Schoolboy Actor: Yates

932
16 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit LaLauze. At the Desire of several persons of Quality. Tickets to be had of LaLauze at the Widow Gwinn's near the Castle Tavern, Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Related Works
Related Work: The Shepherd's Lottery Author(s): William Boyce

Dance: Several entertainments-LaLauze (being his first attempt of that kind these two years); particularly: II: The Amorous Swain; or The Rival Nimphs-Lalauze, Mlle Bonneval, Mrs Delagarde; III: Serious Dance-Cooke; IV: Les Jardiniers Suedois-Lalauze, Mlle Domitilla, Cooke, Mlle Bonneval; (By Desire) after Farce:, a Ball Dance call'd The Louvre,concluding with a Minuet-Lalauze, Lalauze's a boy scholar, Mlle Bonneval

Song: V: To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold, Bencraft

Related Works
Related Work: Blue-Beard; or, Female Curiosity! Author(s): George Colman, the younger

933
26 March 1745 @ James Street

Event Comment: A Tragedy not acted these Twenty Years. Benefit a Person under Misfortunes. [See 31 Dec. 1727.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolytus

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

934
23 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit LaLauze. Mainpiece not acted this season. By particular Desire of several persons of Quality. Tickets of LaLauze, at Widow Gwinn's, near the Castle Tavern in Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Cooke, Sga Campioni; IV: La Gondalier-Cooke; V: Minuet-LaLauze, Sga Campioni; followed by a Ball Dance call'd the Louvre, concluding with a Minuet-a Boy (scholar to LaLauze), Sga Campioni

935
14 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Cast
Role: Father Martin Actor: Taswell

Dance: II: Mechel; IV: Mlle Mechel

Song: V: a Chorus song- [set by Handel, for the Gentlemen Volunteers of the City of London, Stand around, my brave boys written by John Lockman (Deutsch, Handel, p. 624)]

936
18 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: II: Lowe; IV: Stand by my brave boys-Lowe

Dance: III: Mlle Mechel

937
27 February 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: Between the Acts: the two Masters Granier, Miss Granier; Hornpipe-Williams

Song: Several favourite songs-Miss Medina

938
04 March 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Kennedy and Miss Smith. [Prices 3s., 2s., 1s.] Tickets at Kennedy's, No. 2 Lambeth St.; at Miss Smith's, next door but One to the Old Playhouse in Ayliffe St.; King Harry's Head, Red Lyon St., and at the Taphouse of the Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: By Desire,a Hornpipe, Wooden Shoe Dance-Banberry

939
03 October 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

940
02 December 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Song: As17461124

Dance: As17461124

941
03 December 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17461124

942
04 December 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17461124

943
11 December 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17461124

944
12 December 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17461124

945
18 December 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17461124

946
29 December 1746 @ James Street

Event Comment: A Concert, etc. Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. [The usual synopsis of the play is given.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Anna Bullen; Or, Virtue Betray'd

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

947
31 December 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17461124

948
03 February 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17461124

949
12 February 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17461124

950
13 February 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: Mr Miles, Mrs Miles, Master Morgan, Miss Baker