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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.

1526
04 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Jaques de Boys Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Related Works
Related Work: The Humourists Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Song: V: song-Miss Leak

1527
15 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Jaques de Boys Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

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

1528
15 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Cast
Role: Thessalus Actor: Klanert

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter Actor: Gray
Role: Of the ancients its speaking Actor: Johnstone
Role: The moment Aurora Actor: Incledon
Role: The Midnight Watch Actor: Incledon
Role: Sure an't the World a Masquerade Actor: Johnstone, Chorus.
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: Spectre of the Bleeding Nun Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

Song: II: Grand Triumphal Entry and Vocal Parts Entry of Alexander into Babylon, as17990409

Cast
Role: The Death of Admiral Benbow Actor: Incledon.

1529
18 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #389 3s. 6d. (385.9.6; 3.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Cast
Role: accompanied on the violin Actor: Mountain.

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Performance Comment: As17990327but added: Duetto-Emery, Rees; Young William was a Seaman true-Incledon; A Bundle of Proverbs-Munden; Of the ancients its speaking-_; Dear Mary adieu-_; The Midnight Watch-_; Poor Orra come from distant shore-_.
Cast
Role: I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter Actor: Gray
Role: Of the ancients its speaking Actor: Johnstone
Role: The moment Aurora Actor: Incledon
Role: The Midnight Watch Actor: Incledon
Role: Sure an't the World a Masquerade Actor: Johnstone, Chorus.
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter Actor: Gray
Role: Of the ancients its speaking Actor: Johnstone
Role: The moment Aurora Actor: Incledon
Role: The Midnight Watch Actor: Incledon
Role: Sure an't the World a Masquerade Actor: Johnstone, Chorus.
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: Spectre of the Bleeding Nun Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

Dance: 2nd piece: Scotch Reel-Blurton, Mrs Watts

1530
20 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Rival Soldiers, advertised on playbill of 19 Apr.] Receipts: #205 17s. (203.17; 2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Cast
Role: accompanied on the violin Actor: Mountain.

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Cast
Role: I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter Actor: Gray
Role: Of the ancients its speaking Actor: Johnstone
Role: The moment Aurora Actor: Incledon
Role: The Midnight Watch Actor: Incledon
Role: Sure an't the World a Masquerade Actor: Johnstone, Chorus.
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter Actor: Gray
Role: Of the ancients its speaking Actor: Johnstone
Role: The moment Aurora Actor: Incledon
Role: The Midnight Watch Actor: Incledon
Role: Sure an't the World a Masquerade Actor: Johnstone, Chorus.
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: Spectre of the Bleeding Nun Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

1531
22 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter Actor: Gray
Role: Of the ancients its speaking Actor: Johnstone
Role: The moment Aurora Actor: Incledon
Role: The Midnight Watch Actor: Incledon
Role: Sure an't the World a Masquerade Actor: Johnstone, Chorus.
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: Spectre of the Bleeding Nun Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

1532
24 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Cast
Role: accompanied on the violin Actor: Mountain.

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter Actor: Gray
Role: Of the ancients its speaking Actor: Johnstone
Role: The moment Aurora Actor: Incledon
Role: The Midnight Watch Actor: Incledon
Role: Sure an't the World a Masquerade Actor: Johnstone, Chorus.
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: Spectre of the Bleeding Nun Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

1533
25 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Jaques de Boys Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Cast
Role: Baron Ruthenwolf Actor: Barrymore
Role: Andrew Actor: Wathen

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: V: a song, as17990214

Entertainment: Monologue End: The Picture of a Play House; or, Bucks have at ye all-R. Palmer; Vaudeville II 3rd piece: Military Manoeuvres-; The Dead March-; the Ceremony Shooting a Deserter-

Performance Comment: Palmer; Vaudeville II 3rd piece: Military Manoeuvres-; The Dead March-; the Ceremony Shooting a Deserter-.
Cast
Role: The Dead March Actor:
Role: the Ceremony Shooting a Deserter Actor: .

1534
25 April 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Cast
Role: accompanied on the violin Actor: Mountain.

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Cast
Role: I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter Actor: Gray
Role: Of the ancients its speaking Actor: Johnstone
Role: The moment Aurora Actor: Incledon
Role: The Midnight Watch Actor: Incledon
Role: Sure an't the World a Masquerade Actor: Johnstone, Chorus.
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter Actor: Gray
Role: Of the ancients its speaking Actor: Johnstone
Role: The moment Aurora Actor: Incledon
Role: The Midnight Watch Actor: Incledon
Role: Sure an't the World a Masquerade Actor: Johnstone, Chorus.
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: Spectre of the Bleeding Nun Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

1535
09 May 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #402 19s. (389.15; 13.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: What Is She

Performance Comment: As17990427, but Prologue-_ [and thereafter]. Epilogue as17990427 .and thereafter]. Epilogue as17990427 .

Afterpiece Title: The Horse and the Widow

Cast
Role: Chorus of Soldiers and Followers in the Black Fore Actor: Oddwell, Clarke, Sawyer, Curties, Little, Thomas, Everett, J. Linton, Smith, Lee
Role: Chorus of Guards in the Castle Actor: Linton, Street, Abbot, Kenrick, Silvester, Jones, Fairclough, Tett, Russel.

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter Actor: Gray
Role: Of the ancients its speaking Actor: Johnstone
Role: The moment Aurora Actor: Incledon
Role: The Midnight Watch Actor: Incledon
Role: Sure an't the World a Masquerade Actor: Johnstone, Chorus.
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: Spectre of the Bleeding Nun Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

1536
17 May 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Jaques de Boys Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Song: End I: Sweet Lillies of the Valley-Dignum; End IV: My Friend is the Man I'd copy through Life (written by Miles Peter Andrews, Esq., composed by Hook)-Dignum; V: a song, as17990214

1537
27 May 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter Actor: Gray
Role: Of the ancients its speaking Actor: Johnstone
Role: The moment Aurora Actor: Incledon
Role: The Midnight Watch Actor: Incledon
Role: Sure an't the World a Masquerade Actor: Johnstone, Chorus.
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: Spectre of the Bleeding Nun Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

1538
30 May 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [3rd piece in place of The Norwood Gipsies, advertised on playbill of 29 May.] Receipts: #163 16s. (157.13; 6.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Horse And The Widow

Cast
Role: accompanied on the violin Actor: Mountain.

Afterpiece Title: Lover's Vows

Cast
Role: Seamen Actor: Clarke, William, Drunken Negro-Simmons, Servants, Negro Boy-Master Standen, Lieut. Maynard, Sailors, Nancy, Servants, Orra, Ismena. For the three assigned parts see Songs, below.
Role: Drunken Negro Actor: Simmons, Servants, Negro Boy-Master Standen, Lieut. Maynard, Sailors, Nancy, Servants, Orra, Ismena. For the three assigned parts see Songs, below.
Role: Negro Boy Actor: Master Standen, Lieut. Maynard, Sailors, Nancy, Servants, Orra, Ismena. For the three assigned parts see Songs, below.
Role: While the jolly grog Actor: Townsend, Hill, Linton, Street, Abbot
Role: with Black Actor: Beard's Ship at a Distance. Grand cabin by Moonlight. No longer heave the heart@felt sigh-Hill, Miss Gray
Role: No longer heave the heart@felt sigh Actor: Hill, Miss Gray

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

1539
15 October 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Jaques de Boys Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

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

Song: As17991001

1540
21 November 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Merchant of Venice [advertised on playbill of 20 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. Receipts: #122 8s. 6d. (66.11.0; 54.6.6; 1.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Jaques de Boys Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: As17991001

1541
12 February 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: mother of Agnes Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

1542
13 February 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #488 14s. 6d. (484.7.6; 4.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: mother of Agnes Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

1543
17 February 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Performance Comment: As18000212, but added to Domestics-Wilkins, +Banks, +Ashwin; Nuns of the Convent of St. Claire-Miss? +Bologna, Mrs +Blurton.
Cast
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: mother of Agnes Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

1544
24 February 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Jaques de Boys Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: Of Age To-morrow

Song: As17991001

1545
24 February 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: mother of Agnes Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

1546
03 March 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: mother of Agnes Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

1547
17 March 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: mother of Agnes Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

1548
20 March 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: mother of Agnes Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

1549
24 March 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: Choral Boys Actor: Master Ramage, Master Goodwin, Master Little, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Platt, Master Speare, Master Sawyer
Role: mother of Agnes Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor: mother to Agnes-Mrs Follett

1550
16 April 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Jaques de Boys Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: Of Age To-morrow

Song: V: song-Miss Leak