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7790 results for: Keyword - Mr Ben Johnson
We found 4589 matches on Event Comments, 2635 matches on Performance Comments, 974 matches on Author, 542 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

7076
02 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bransby and Mr Packer. No building on the Stage. Bellario-Miss Plym ($Hopkins). Receipts: #43 5s. (MacMillan); #64 4s. [Deficit to Bransby and Packer: #21.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Cast
Role: Lady Scrape Actor: Mrs Bennet

Dance: II: The Provancalle, as17631014; End: Dutch Dance-Aldridge

7077
03 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This Night was to have been the Distress'd Mother For the Benefit of Mr & Mrs Hopkins & the Benefits being all Settled it was put off till the 24th (Hopkins). By Command of their Majesties. Receipts: #184 3s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

7078
04 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Grimaldi and Aldridge. Tickets deliver'd by Tassoni will be taken. Mr Yates being ill Mrs Ward was borrow'd to play Belvidera (Hopkins). Receipts: #53 18s. (MacMillan); charges: #64 4s. [Deficit to Grimaldi and Aldridge: #10 6s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: II: By desire, a Hornpipe-Miss Rogers; III: A New Dance call'd the Running Footman-Aldridge, Miss Baker; End: The Cow@Keepers-Grimaldi, Miss Rogers

7079
10 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Messrs Ackman and Baddeley. Mr Powell-King Henry (Hopkins). Charges: #64 4s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duchess of York Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: III: Running Footman, as17640504

Song: End: An old favourite ballad, Too Soon O Gentle Youth-Miss Wright

7080
16 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson (first gallery keeper). Ghost-Mr Powell ($Hopkins)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

7081
19 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bowers, Veal, and Broad. Mr Lee read Lord Trinket (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Cast
Role: Lady Scrape Actor: Mrs Bennet

Dance: End: Double Hornpipe, as17640514

7082
23 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Children who perform'd in the Fairy Tale (Hopkins)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Sysigambis Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Dance: II: A Double Hornpipe-Mas. Cape, Miss Rogers; III: The Gypsies-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street (Gerhardi's Scholars); V: A Minuet-the two Miss Rogers's (Mr Noverre's Scholars); End: A Dance call'd The Carpenters and the Fruit Dealers-Miss Street, Mas. Gherardy, first appearance on English Stage

7083
23 May 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, box-keeper, and Charles Sarjant, book and house-keeper. Mr Ross having, by a fall from his horse, hurt himself so much as to be incapable of performing, the Play is oblig'd to be chang'd; and the Tickets deliver'd out for King Lear will be taken this night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: Scotchman Actor: Bennet

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222

7084
26 June 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: I: Sicilian Peasants-Master Rogier, Miss Valois; End: A new comic Dance, The Carpenter and the Fruit Dealer-Gherardi Jr, Master Clinton, Miss Street

7085
13 July 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

7086
15 September 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performance Comment: Honeycombe-Yates; Scribble-King; Ledger-Bransby; Mrs Honeycombe-Mrs Bennett; Polly-Miss Pope; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Mrs Honeycombe Actor: Mrs Bennett

7087
17 September 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

7088
13 November 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow and the Distressed Family of Mr Lambe, who was unfortunately killed at the late Fire, near Wardour St., Soho. The widow Lambe having a large family of children, the youngest of which being but 5 months old, humbly hopes those charitably disposed persons who intend to honor her by their appearance on this occasion, will excuse her application in person. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. Gallery 3s. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Music: Between the acts: Solo on Violincello-Chiri; Concerto on Bassoon-Baumgarten; Concerto on Hautboy-Simpson; Solo on Violin-Hay who will lead the performance; To conclude with the Coronation Anthem-

7089
28 November 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: Grimaldi, Aldridge, Giorgi, Berardi, Sga Giorgi, Miss Baker

7090
11 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Middlesex Hospital. [The Occasional Prologue written by Mr Lockman, published in the Public Advertiser 12 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Cast
Role: Lopez Actor: Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003; End: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17641101

7091
25 January 1765 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Increase of a Fund established for the support of Decayed musicians and their families. An Oratorio from the Works of the Late Mr Handel, performed but once. The Governors of the Fund spent #628 18s. 6d. last year. Pit and Boxes Half a Guinea. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries open at 4, Pit and Boxes at 5. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Israel In Babylon

Entertainment: I: Solo on the Violincello-Parton; II: Solo on Violin by permission of Lord Tyrawley, -Fisher

7092
26 January 1765 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano In Syria

Dance: Between the acts: As17650105; New Dances-

7093
29 January 1765 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano In Syria

Dance: As17650105

7094
15 February 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pharnaces

Dance: I: A Dance call'd The Coopers-Aldridge, Miss Baker; II: A New Comic Dance-Berardi, Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi, Miss Baker, Grimaldi

7095
02 March 1765 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demofoonte

Dance: As17650105

7096
18 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Not acted for 3 years. [See 21 March 1763.] Part of Pit laid into Boxes. No building on Stage. Farce never before acted. [Attributed to Mrs Clive, not printed.] Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Clive, at the Two Red Lamps, in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields, and of Mr Johnston at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Faithful Irish Woman

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17641011

7097
15 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brent. Part of the Pit will be railed into the boxes. Ladies and Gentlemen, who have taken Boxes, or Places, before Miss Brent's Benefit was advertised, are requested to send for their tickets, otherwise such Boxes or Places cannot be insured. Tickets deliver'd for the 21st of March will be taken. No Person can be admitted behind the Scenes, Nor any money retuned after the curtain is drawn up. Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre. Tickets to be had of Miss Brent, in the Piazza, next the Church, Covent Garden; and of Mr Sarjant, at the stage-door of the theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17641015

7098
26 April 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee and Miss Slack. Comedy never performed, Alteration of Wycherley's play into two acts by Lee (Genest, V, 69). Tickets and places to be had of Lee at LaGrange's Medicinal Warehouse, in New St., Covent Garden; of Miss Slack, at Mr Bates', Charles St., Covent Garden; and at Stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Cast
Role: Paulina Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: End: New Tambourine, as17640929

7099
29 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miles, Mrs Green and Mrs Baker. None admitted behind Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Benvolio Actor: Davies
Role: Tibalt Actor: Bennet

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: III: A Scotch Dance-Mas. King, Miss Pitt; IV: The Drunken Peasant-Miles, Clown-Bennet; End: A Hornpipe-Mas. King

Performance Comment: King, Miss Pitt; IV: The Drunken Peasant-Miles, Clown-Bennet; End: A Hornpipe-Mas. King.
Cast
Role: The Drunken Peasant Actor: Miles, Clown-Bennet
Role: Clown Actor: Bennet

7100
30 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benfit for Costollo, Mrs Pitt, Mr Stede. [Public Advertiser assigns Maria to Miss Elliot.] None admitted behind Scenes. Last time of performing Mainpiece this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: I: A Wooden Shoe Dance-Leppie, Miss Pitt; End: (This night only) A Medley Hornpipe-Walker, from Drury Lane, Miss Pitt his scholar; End Opera: Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End I Afterpiece: Rural Love, as17641212