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1085 results for: Title - The Children; or, Give Them Their Way

1
28 April 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Children; or, Give Them their Way

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

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25 August 1701 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Dance: [By] 6 Companies of Rope Dancers; who] [are joyned in one, they being the greatest Performers of Men, Women, and Children, that could be found beyond the Seas, where will be performed such wonderful variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack Rope, the Sloaping Rope-; [you will see a wonderful Girl of 10 years of Age, who walk backward up the sloaping Rope-Girl of 10 years[, driving a Wheel-barrow behind her; [also you will see the Great Italian Master, who not only passes all that has yet been seen upon the low Rope, [but he Dances[ without a Pole upon the Head of a Mast [as high as the Booth will permit, and afterwards stands upon his Head on the same-Great Italian Master; [You will also be entertained with the many Conceits of an Italian Scaramouch, who Dances on the Rope [with 2 Children and a Dog in a Wheel-barrow, and a Duck on his Head-Italian Scaramouch

Dance: Such variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack/Rope, Tumbling, as has never been seen in this Fair before-

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18 October 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Dance: Serious and Comic Dancing-two Children Scholars of M Ballon, lately arriv'd from the Opera at Paris [M and Mlle Salle]; [particularly Two Punchanellos, Two Harlequins and a Dame Ragonde-; The Harlequins-the two Children

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19 October 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Woman's Revenge; Or, A Match In Newgate

Song: Mrs Fitzgerald

Dance: The two Children; Dame Ragonde-Cook, Moreau, Newhouse; with Harlequin, Harlequiness-the Children

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17 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Imposter

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Music: I: Concerto on Flute-a Child five years of age (1st time of his appearing on any stage); III: Another piece of music-the Child

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22 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: I: Overture to Rodelinda on Flute-the Child; III: Music-the Child

Dance: V: Savoyards, as17480920

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03 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Music: I: Scots Sonato on Flute-the Child; IV: A Piece of Music on Flute-the Child

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027; III: The Savoyards, as17480920

Ballet: V: Vertumnus and Pomona. Cooke, Anne Auretti

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09 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Music: I: Scots Sonato-the child; IV: Piece of Music-the Child

Dance: III: New Comic Dance call'd Italian Cabaret-Matthews, Mrs Addison

Ballet: V: Vertumnus and Pomona. As17481103

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23 January 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Music: I: Concerto on Flute-a Child; III: Piece of Music-the Child

Dance: II: New Scotch Dance, as17490118; V: Savoyards, as17480920

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01 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: a Ca Comic Dance The Neopolitans-Lefevre, Mlle Prudhomme, the French Children; and a Dance in Demi@Characters-Lefevre, Mlle Prudhomme, the French Children (1st appearance on the English Stage)

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25 January 1662 @ The Red Bull Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

12
November 1681 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Count; Or, A New Way To Play An Old Game

13
05 March 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

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06 March 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

15
07 March 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

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09 March 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

17
11 March 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

18
February 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

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20 August 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Dance: Tollet's Ground-Essex, Mrs Lucas; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bignell; Dame Ragondes and her 8 Children-Nevelong, 8 more; The Right Irish Trot-Goodwin

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24 August 1702 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rope Dancing

Entertainment: they being the greatest Performers of Men, Women and Children that can be found beyond the Seas, so that the World cannot parallize them for Dancing on the Low/Rope, Vaulting on the High/Rope, Walking on the Slack and Sloping Ropes-the Famous Company of Rope-Dancers out-doing all others to that Degree, that it has highly recommended them, both in Bartholomew Fair and May Fair last, to all the best persons of Quality in England. And by all are owned to be the only amazing Wonders of the World, in every thing they do: 'tis there you will see the Italian Scaramouch dancing on the Rope, wiph a Wheel-barrow before him, with two Children and a Dog in it, and with a Duck on his Head; who sings to the Company and causes much Laughter

21
01 June 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Song: Several new Songs-Mrs Hodgson; A New Song by way of Ballad, call'd The Misses' Lamentation for want of their Vizard Masks in the Play/house-Mr Boman

Dance:

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25 January 1705 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Like Master Like Man

Song: That celebrated Dialogue-Boman, Pack, A Drunken Officer and a Town Miss, originally performed in The Mad Lover; A Country Dialogue-Mrs Willis, Short; A new Trumpet Song composed by Eccles-Davis

Dance: The last new Entry-Firbank, Firbank's Scholar; Blowsabella-Prince, Mrs Clark; Comic dances-Prince, others; A Right Irish Trot-a child of five years

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17 December 1705 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: As17051212

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04 August 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Debauchee; Or, A New Way To Pay Old Debts

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14 May 1712 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music, in the Opera of Dioclesian, with several Additions composed by the Immortal Henry Purcel, which, for the Beauty of Expression, Excellency of Harmony, and Grandeur of Contrivance, gives a first Place to no Musical Opera in Europe-; Several Entertainments on the Irish Harp-the famous Mr Morphy