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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Master Benjamin Hallet"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Master Benjamin Hallet")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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2864 results for: Keyword - Master Benjamin Hallet
We found 1326 matches on Performance Comments, 1037 matches on Performance Title, 432 matches on Event Comments, 373 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1151
06 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Performance Comment: By Children-Cross. Fairy Queen-Miss Pope; Statue-Master Roger; Cynthia-Miss Simson; Oberon-Master Simson.
Cast
Role: Statue Actor: Master Roger
Role: Oberon Actor: Master Simson.

Entertainment: A Cento on the Birth@day of Shakespeare , selected from his own Works, by particular Desire-Master Simson

Dance: LLouvre and Minuet-Master Simson, Miss Simson

1152
12 January 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: Song in Praise of the King of Prussia-Kear

Dance: RRural Courtship, The Wooden Shoes-Master Settree, Miss Twist

1153
25 January 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Pigmalion; or, The Statue Metamorphosed

Afterpiece Title: , B, By Desire, The Battle of Rosbach, the whole to conclude with Bryan's song in honour of that day sung by Kear

Dance: I: Rural Dance-Master Settree, Miss Twist; III: Scots Dance-Froment, Miss Wilkinson

Song: III: Scots Song-Lauder; IV: young Italian Gentlewoman, 1st appearance on any stage

1154
06 March 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Insolvent; Or, Filial Piety

Afterpiece Title: The Faggot Binder

Dance: II: Colin and Phebe-Master Settree, Miss Twist

1155
11 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Spanish Dance-Poitier Jr, Sga Banti; II: New Peasant Dance-Master Banti, Miss Wilford, her 1st on the stage, both scholars to Poitier Sr; III: A Dutch Dance-Poitier Jr, Sga Banti; IV: A Wooden Shoe Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville; V: A Minuet-Poitier, Sga Banti

1156
10 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: As17571007, but Occasional Prologue-Master and Miss Simson.
Cast
Role: Occasional Prologue Actor: Master and Miss Simson.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: A Minuet, Louvre-Master Simson, Miss Simson

1157
16 September 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: A comic Dance call'd The German Hunters-Master Settree, Miss Twist

1158
17 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: TThe Threshers, as17581016; Hornpipe-Master Cartwright, a Child nine years old

1159
23 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17590417 but Hamlet-Mossop; Guildenstern-Scrase; Laertes-Austin; Ophelia-Miss Macklin; a new Dramatic Epiloguea Dialogue-Master Simson, Miss Simson; the Prologue-_.
Cast
Role: a new Dramatic Epiloguea Dialogue Actor: Master Simson, Miss Simson

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Fribble Actor: Master Simson
Role: Flash Actor: Master Atkins
Role: Puff Actor: Master Hurst
Role: Jasper Actor: Master Pope
Role: Louvre Actor: Master Simson, Miss Simson.

Dance: II: Louvre, Minuet-Master Simson, Miss Simson

1160
28 June 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Fribble Actor: Master Simson
Role: Flash Actor: Master Atkins
Role: Puff Actor: Master Hurst
Role: Jasper Actor: Master Pope
Role: Louvre Actor: Master Simson, Miss Simson.

Dance: II: A New Dutch Dance, as17590515; V: Hornpipe-Master Mathews, a child of 5 years of age

1161
06 September 1759 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Strattaggemma

Dance: Miss Burn, Master Callois [Cawley]

1162
07 September 1759 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Strattaggemma

Dance: PPantomime Dance-Master Callois, Miss Burn will dance every night during the continuance of the Gardens

1163
23 April 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman Is A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Dance: II: A Dance-Sg and Sga Giorgi; III: A Dance-the two Master Rogers, Miss Rogers; V: The Cow Keepers, as17600313

1164
15 May 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: HHornpipe-Master Wallace1st appearance, a student of Walker

1165
05 June 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Instrumental parts-the best performers

Dance: A Minuetby Particular Desire,-Sga Asselin, Noverre; A new Terzetta-Miss Capitani, Miss Capitani's brother (six years old), Master Teriot

1166
29 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: King Edward Actor: Master Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Entertainment: M$Mr Foote's Epilogue to the Minor-Master Summers, a child 4 years old

1167
16 June 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Dance: PPantomime Dance-Master Rogie, Miss Capitani, from the Opera

1168
02 July 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Citizen

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: Entertainments of Dancing-Master Rogie, Miss Capitani

1169
17 October 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

Dance: A Comic Dance-Master Rogie, Miss Capitani. As17610912

1170
11 April 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Music: End of Opera: A Piece on the Harp-Master Bromley, a Blind Youth, 1st performance on any Stage

1171
09 June 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Dance: Miss Capitani, Master Rogers

1172
01 August 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: II: A Serious Dance-Miss Street (scholar to Ghendi); V: The Venetian Gardeners-Master Rogier, Miss Street

1173
05 August 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Englishman Return'd From Paris

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: I: The Venetian Gardeners-Rogier, Miss Street; II: The Provincial Dance-Master Clayton, Miss Street (Apprentices to Mr Gerhardi)

1174
11 August 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: As17630801, but Physician-Castle; Amaryllis-Miss Read; Chloris-Mrs Osborne; Lightning-Master Summers; [?-] Pearce. Pearce.
Cast
Role: Lightning Actor: Master Summers

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: VVenetian Gardeners, as17630808; Provincial Dance-Master Clinton, Miss Street

1175
15 August 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: VVenetian Gardeners, as17630810; New Comic Dance-Master Clinton, Miss Street