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2257 results for: Keyword - Benjamin Johnson
We found 1374 matches on Performance Comments, 656 matches on Author, 407 matches on Event Comments, 13 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

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12 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Never acted before. The Whole Play being new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief Or The Husbands Cure

Related Works
Related Work: The Wife's Relief; or, The Husband's Cure Author(s): Charles Johnson

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20 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Henry Cromwell to Alexander Pope, 7 Dec.: We have had a poor comedy of Johnson's (not Ben) which held seven nights, and has got him three hundred pounds, for the town is sharpset on new plays (Pope, I, 136)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief

Related Works
Related Work: The Wife's Relief; or, The Husband's Cure Author(s): Charles Johnson

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07 November 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Successful Pyrate

Related Works
Related Work: The Successful Pyrate Author(s): Charles Johnson

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05 January 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Victim

Related Works
Related Work: The Victim Author(s): Charles Johnson

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25 February 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sultaness

Related Works
Related Work: The Sultaness Author(s): Charles Johnson

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16 January 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Masquerade

Related Works
Related Work: The Masquerade Author(s): Charles Johnson
Related Work: The Masquerade: or, An Evening’s Intrigue Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

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09 January 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Alter'd from the Comedy call'd As You Like It, Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Forest

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Forest Author(s): Charles Johnson

33
11 December 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [by Charles Johnson.] With New Habits. [See Preface for an account of the noisy reception of the play, and Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 61, for Hervey's amusing account of the first night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medea

Related Works
Related Work: Medea Author(s): Charles Johnson

34
17 April 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bridgwater. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A new Ballad Opera. [By Charles Johnson. Apparently not published.] The Rehearsals of The Ephesian Matron having obliged Mr Bridgwater to a close Attendance, he humbly hopes his Friends will excuse his not being able personally to wait on them

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry IV Part I

Performance Comment: King-Mills; Prince-Wilks; Glendower-Cibber; Hotspur-Bridgwater; Falstaff-Harper; Northumberland-Bowman; Worcester-Corey; Douglas-W. Mills; Vernon-A. Hallam; Poins-Watson; Mortimer-Paget; Blunt-Oates; Francis-R. Wetherilt; Hostess-Mrs Willis; Kate-Mrs Booth; Carriers-Johnson, Cibber Jr.
Cast
Role: Carriers Actor: Johnson, Cibber Jr.

Afterpiece Title: The Ephesian Matron

Related Works
Related Work: The Ephesian Matron Author(s): Charles Johnson

Dance: HHighland Lass-Miss Robinson

Ballet: TThe Masques. Harlequin Petit Maitre-Essex; Mademoiselle-Mrs Walter; Punches-Thurmond, F. Tench; French Peasant-Houghton; French Peasant Woman-Mrs Delorme

35
11 December 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Charles Johnson.] Preface: I had the Mortification to see this Play acted the first Night, and to hear the Characters of Mother Lupine and her Women disapprov'd by several of the Audience, who, as if they thought themselves in bad Company, were very severe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caelia Or The Perjurd Lover

Related Works
Related Work: Caelia; or, The Perjur'd Lover Author(s): Charles Johnson

36
10 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Mainpiece: Altered from [Charles] Johnson. Not acted these 20 years. Afterpiece: In 2 Acts; Carefully revised, and every exceptionable Passage expunged. [Author and speaker of Prologue unknown.] Receipts: #289 2s. (195/1; tickets: 94/1) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief Or The Husbands Cure

Related Works
Related Work: The Wife's Relief; or, The Husband's Cure Author(s): Charles Johnson

Afterpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Dance: As17820409

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01 May 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Miss Farren, "but on account of the sudden indisposition of Miss Farren her part in the play was read by Mrs Ward, who gave it with great effect, and having studied Miss Farren's manner, was a very tolerable substitute" (Diary, 2 May).] Afterpiece [1st time; C 3, by John Philip Kemble]: Taken from [The Country Lasses; or] The Custom of the Manor [by Charles Johnson]. Diary, 6 May 1789: This Day is published The Farm House (1s.). And see 6 May. Receipts: #165 3s. (125.12.0; 34.18.6; 4.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Appearances

Afterpiece Title: The Farm House

Related Works
Related Work: The Country Lasses: or, The Custom of the Manor Author(s): Charles Johnson

38
27 March 1724 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson, lately from Ireland. Tickets 5s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Overture to Radamistus-; Three songs out of Julius Caesar-Kytch; Three Violin Concertoes-Johnson; The Cuckoo-Johnson; Concerto for Two French Horns by Handel-; Trumpet Piece-

39
11 July 1745 @ Shepherd's Market, Mayfair

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson, a Distiller, and Adams. 6 p.m. Which will be perform'd by a set of Gentlemen and Ladies who never performed on any stage before. [Usual formula of the concert.] Prices 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy or The Miller Bit

Song: I: Johnson; IV: A new Song in Praise of the Duke of Cumberland-Mr Johnson

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Adams; V: A dance representing Trade in General-Adams

Music: II: German Flute-a Gentleman

40
05 July 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Sack Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Cross

41
07 July 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Sack Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: As17150705

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21 July 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Wife Or The Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Sack Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: As17150705 Spanish Entry, Punch-Shaw

43
23 August 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Sack Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Song: Proud Woman, I Scorn You-Pack, Cook

Dance: Scaramouch-Thurmond Jr; Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Cross; Miller's Dance, as17150810

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31 August 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Wife Or A Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Sack Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: As17150823

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16 January 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Sack Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance:

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04 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Purgatory

Related Works
Related Work: The Humours of Purgatory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: As17151028

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06 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Purgatory

Related Works
Related Work: The Humours of Purgatory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: Moreau, Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Tully, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross

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27 January 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

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28 January 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

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29 January 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Afterpiece Title: Hobs Wedding