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7795 results for: Keyword - Mr Ben Johnson
We found 4593 matches on Event Comments, 2635 matches on Performance Comments, 975 matches on Author, 542 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

551
24 November 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Related Works
Related Work: Volpone; or, The Fox Author(s): Ben Jonson

Dance: LLes Boufons du Cour, as17421120; Dutch Skipper, as17421025; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Grand Ballet, as17421108

552
04 February 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Related Works
Related Work: Volpone; or, The Fox Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace or Merlins Cave

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royale-Salway; Merlin-Leveridge; Diana-Miss Hillyard; Aerial spirits-Villeneuve, Mlle Auguste; Jupiter in character of Harlequin-Woodward; Mercury-Reinhold; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Pluto (Punch)-Dumont; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouche)-Destrade; Hercules (Brighella)-Delagarde; Apollo (Mezzitin)-Villeneuve; Mars (Leander)-Richardson; Pierrot-LaLauze.
Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Bencraft

Dance: PPantaloon and his Enamorata, as17421215; Tambourine-Cooke

553
08 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Dame Pliant Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Dance: II: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310 IV: A Comic Dance call'd La Florana-Checo, Chiaretta

Song: III: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond-Beard

554
21 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman in Misfortune. Tickets deliver'd out for tomorrow the 22nd, for the Play As You Like It will be taken this night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Dame Pliant Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Song: III: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Beard

Dance: II: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310 IV: La Florana, as17430408

555
07 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Dame Pliant Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Mrs Tawdry Actor: Miss Bennet.

Song: I: Lowe; IV: Beard

Dance: II: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, as17421201; La Florana, as17430408

556
16 December 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Subtle-Mills; Face-Cross; Sir Epicure-Berry; Lovewit-Turbutt; Ananias-Morgan; Tribulation-Taswell; Surly-Havard; Dapper-Green; Kastril-Neale; Dame Pliant-Miss Bennet; Doll Common-Mrs Cross; Abel Drugger-Cibber.
Cast
Role: Dame Pliant Actor: Miss Bennet
Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyers Feast

Dance: III: Italian Masquerade, as17431126

557
17 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone Or The Fox

Related Works
Related Work: Volpone; or, The Fox Author(s): Ben Jonson

Dance: Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

558
17 January 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Related Works
Related Work: Volpone; or, The Fox Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Yeoman Actor: Bencraft

559
28 January 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Dame Pliant Actor: Miss Bennet
Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

Dance: II: La Mariniere-Mlle Auguste; IV: New Serious Dance, as17440119

560
04 February 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Dame Pliant Actor: Miss Bennet
Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Cast
Role: Attendants on Hecate Actor: Morland, Bennet, Morgan

561
09 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. Tickets at Mills's House, Nassau St., Soho. Stage form'd into an amphitheatre and so enclosed as to prevent the Ladies taking cold. Afterpiece not acted for 15 years [but see 17 March 1732]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Dame Pliant Actor: Miss Bennet
Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew or The Merry Beggars

Song: BBritons Strike Home-Moreland

Dance: Muilment, Mlle Auguste; A Dance-Desse, Mrs Walter

562
06 November 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Garrick; Subtle-Bridges; Face-Cross; Sir Epicure-Berry; Lovewit-Turbutt; Ananias-Phillips; Tribulation-Taswell; Surly-Havard; Dapper-Green; Kastril-Neale; Dame Pliant-Mrs Bennet; Doll Common-Mrs Cross.
Cast
Role: Dame Pliant Actor: Mrs Bennet
Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Fortune Teller Author(s): Charles Johnson

563
22 December 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Dame Pliant Actor: Mrs Bennet
Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: II, IV: Lowe

564
10 January 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: II: Lowe

Dance: IV: Grand Dance, as17441217

565
08 February 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Rosamond

Dance: IV: Peasant's Dance-Muilment

566
11 February 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone Or The Fox

Related Works
Related Work: Volpone; or, The Fox Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

567
21 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Song: II: Lowe; V: The Subscription-Lowe

Dance: IV: Mechel

568
23 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Related Works
Related Work: Epicene Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: Orpheus-Beard; Rhodope-Mrs Lampe; Eurydice-A Young Gentlewoman who never appeared on any stage before; 1st Nymph, follower of Eurydice-Sga Campioni; Harlequin-Woodward; Colombine-Mrs Havard; Pantaloon-Arthur; Squire Gawky-Bencraft; Mrs Mannerly-Mrs Martin; Goody Gurton-Marten; Drudge (servant to Pantaloon)-Hippisley; Woman Dwarf-a French Boy; Country Lads-Villeneuve, Destrade, Delagarde, Dupre; Country Lasses-Mrs Duval, Mrs Phillips, Mrs LeBrun; Mrs Gondau; Rural Swain-Cooke; Nymph-Sga Campioni.
Cast
Role: Squire Gawky Actor: Bencraft

569
22 February 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Loverule Actor: Mrs Bennet

Song: II: Song-; III: Cantata-Lowe

570
08 March 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Related Works
Related Work: Epicene Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Squire Gawky Actor: Bencraft

Dance: To conclude with New Comic Ballet, The Italian Peasants, as17460306

571
31 March 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Incendiary

572
11 August 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Conspiracy Discovered

573
25 September 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

574
25 November 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Bennet

Song: Lowe

Dance: As17461121

575
12 November 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchymist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens