principal boy

British  

noun

1. the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman

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principal boy

The queen's "Bond-girl" acting role, for example, can be traced to Elizabeth's little-known teenage penchant for amateur theatricals at Windsor Castle, when she apparently used to play the principal boy.

From Reuters ● Jul. 29, 2012

She drilled the chorus, trained the dancers, coached the speakers, arranged the costumes, and during rehearsals, at any rate, was sometimes stage-manager, pianist, prompter, dancing mistress, Lord Chamberlain, and principal boy, all combined.

From The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil

Her uncle, sitting back silently in his big arm-chair, with the quiet twinkle in his keen eyes, remarked, "And you will look like the principal boy at a pantomime."

From The Rhodesian by Gertrude Page

She was still playing principal boy in the pantomime—a gay, gallant Prince, in plumed cap and tights.

From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill

Here she was the inevitable principal boy of the burlesques.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon