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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Ben Johnson"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Ben Johnson")') 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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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.

1101
18 April 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Toe. Boxes 4s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

1102
13 December 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanter or Love and Magic

1103
01 January 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

1104
22 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

1105
15 March 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Abington. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 12 April 1771.] Afterpiece: Taken from Sir John Vanbrugh. Boxes and Pit are laid together. Paid Mr Loutherbourg on acct (per Mr Johnston) #41 13s. 4d.; The Author of the Fair Quaker (vide 23 Nov. last) #78 8s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #276 15s. 6d. Charges: #65. Profit to Mrs Abingston: #211 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Quality

Dance: V: The Mountaineers, as17730930

1106
18 November 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Oaks

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

1107
24 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Cast
Role: Polixenes Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Miniature Picture

Dance: II: New Dance, as17791126; End II afterpiece: The Coopers, as17800224

1108
15 July 1785 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Wellman. Tickets to be had of Mr and Mrs Wellman, No. 20, and of Williams, Hair-Dresser, Dorville's Row

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar Or The Comical Discovery

Performance Comment: Father Dominick-Wellman; Lorenzo-Benson; Alphonso-Waldron; Pedro-Kerridge; Soldiers-Payne, Meadow; Gomez-Wright; Duenna-Mrs Monk; Elvira-Mrs Wellman .
Cast
Role: Lorenzo Actor: Benson

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: Midas-Wellman; Jupiter-Harrison; Sileno-Wright; Pan-Kerridge; Damaetas-Payne; Apollo (for that night only)-Miss Cranford; Nysa-Mrs Benson; Mysis-Mrs Monk; Juno-Miss Bird; Daphne-A Lady (1st appearance on this stage [unidentified]) .unidentified]) .
Cast
Role: Nysa Actor: Mrs Benson

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton or Harlequin Gladiator

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Wright; Clown-Benson; Pantaloon-Payne; Frenchman-Kerridge; Mother Shipton-Mr Wellman; Colombine-Mrs Wellman .
Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Benson

Song: End of Act II of 1st piece The Pidgeon by Miss Cranford; End of 1st piece Four and Twenty Fidlers all on a Row by Wellman

Monologue: 1785 07 15 End of 2nd song Bucks have at ye all by Benson

1109
29 September 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

1110
06 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Knight. 1st piece [1st time; C 3, by Thomas Holcroft, altered by author from his Duplicity. Larpent MS 1129; not published]. Oracle, 13 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mr and Mrs Knight, No. 47, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #331 5s. (159.7.0; 16.7.6; tickets: 155.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maskd Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Get Un Married

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Song: In 2nd piece: The Sportman's snug little Cot-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologues, with Songs.End: The Barber's Petition-Fawcett (1st time); [with a song in character, Wigs [including His Own Wig, The Lover's Wig, Doctor's Wig, Coachman's Wig, Counsellor's Wig-Fawcett; End 2nd piece: A Ramble to Bath (1st time) [with a descriptive song in the character of Jacob Gawkey [in The Chapter of Accidents]-Knight

1111
29 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs H. Johnston. 1st piece: Not acted these 2 years. 3rd piece: Not acted here these 10 years [never previously acted at this theatre]. Morning Chronicle, 16 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mr and Mrs Johnston, No. 24, Bedford-street, Covent Garden. The Doors to be opened at 5:30, and to begin at 6:30, and so continue for the remainder of the Season. Receipts: #380 11s. 6d. (168.5.6; 17.1.0; tickets: 195.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Lovers Quarrels

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter of Naples

Entertainment: Vaudeville In course Evening: an entire New Song, The Seaman's Lamentation for the Loss of the Royal Charlotte (The Words by G. S. Carey, and composed by Mazzinghi)-Incledon; Dancing-Mr and Master Michell (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh; 1st appearance)

1112
12 May 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Circe

1113
12 November 1683 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Constantine The Great

1114
August 1685 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Commonwealth Of Women

1115
20 November 1689 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Ranter Or The History Of Bacon In Virginia

1116
December 1691 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Excuse Or Cuckolds Make Themselves

1117
June 1694 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical History Of Don Quixote Part Ii

1118
December 1695 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The She gallants

1119
April 1696 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pausanius The Betrayer Of His Country

1120
August 1696 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Wives

1121
December 1696 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cinthia And Endimion Or The Loves Of The Deities

1122
November 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Boadicea Queen Of Britain

1123
05 March 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

1124
04 April 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison. Receipts: money #31 5s; tickets #62 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces of Musick-; accompanied with Trumpets Flutes German Flutes and French Horns-; Particularly Hendel's Water Musick-

Dance: As17211003

1125
23 November 1723 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato