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7131 results for: Keyword - Mr Benj. May
We found 5678 matches on Event Comments, 1309 matches on Performance Comments, 607 matches on Performance Title, 19 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4001
11 April 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection Of Music Chiefly From The Works Of Handel

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Performers as17940319eader as17940312ART I. Overture (ESTHER). He smote all the first born by Chorus (ISRAEL IN EGYPT). Sin not O King! by Mrs Bland (SAUL). Call forth thy powers by Kelly (JUDAS MACCABAEUS). Fix'd in his everlasting seat by Chorus (SAMSON). What though I trace by Mrs Crouch (SOLOMON). Pleasure my by Harrison (TIME AND TRUTH). Fall'n is the foe by Chorus (JUDAS MACCABAEUS). Praise the Lord by Sga Storace (ESTHER). Lord in thee by Kelly and Chorus (TE DEUM). PART II. When the ear heard [singer not listed] (FUNERAL ANTHEMS). He deliver'd the poor by Chorus. Dead March (SAUL). The Soldier tir'd by Sga Storace. My faith and truth by Miss Leak and Master Welsh (SAMSON). The praise of Bacchus by Dignum; Bacchus ever fair by Meredith and Chorus (ALEXANDER'S FEAST). Like a bright Cherub by Sga Storace, Mrs Bland, Harrison (GIDEON). Prophetic visions by Master Welsh (OCCASIONAL ORATORIO). Let their celestial concerts all unite by Chorus (SAMSON). PART III. Awake the trumpet by Chorus (SAMSON). Tears such as tender Fathers by Meredith (DEBORAH). Donald by Sga Storace (Scotch Air). The many rend the skies by Chorus (ALEXANDER'S FEAST). The Mansion of Peace by Harrison. From mighty Kings by Mrs Crouch; Sound an alarm by Kelly and Chorus (JUDAS MACCABAEUS). Queen Mary's Lamentation by Miss Leak. May balmy peace by Master Welsh. From the censer by Chorus (SOLOMON) .

Music: In Part II concerto on the violin by Giornovichi

4002
25 April 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Poole. 3rd piece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 5 May 1790). Morning Chronicle, 7 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Poole, No. 18, Charles-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #206 12s. (102/8/0; 4/17/6; tickets: 99/6/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Everyone Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: THE SAILOR'S FESTIVAL

Afterpiece Title: THE TWO MISERS

Music: End of Act II of mainpiece concerto on the Piano Forte, composed by Krumpholtz, accompanied by the Full Band, by Miss Poole

Song: End of Act IV of mainpiece Mad Bm, in character, by Miss Poole

4003
29 April 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. 1st piece [1st time; M. INT 1, by John Cartwright Cross. Text Q. Roach, 1794). For music see 1 May]. 2nd piece: For that night only, by Permission of George Colman, Esq. Jun.; Never (previously] performed here. 3rd piece: For this night only, by Permission of George Colman, Esq. Jun. [holder of copyright of both pieces]. Morning Chronicle, 7 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Receipts: #333 8s. 6d. (146/2/0; 5/17/6; tickets: 181/9/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: British Fortitude And Hibernian Friendship; Or, An Escape From France

Afterpiece Title: THE LONDON HERMIT; or, Rambles in Dorsetshire

Afterpiece Title: THE SON-IN-LAW

4004
05 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Main piece in place of ROBIN HOOD; afterpiece of HARLEQUIN AND FAUSTUS, both advertised on playbill of 3 May.] Receipts: #304 10s. (300/9/6; 4/0/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Travellers In Switzerland

Afterpiece Title: THE IRISHMAN IN LONDON

Dance: As17940225

4005
10 May 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [A broadside bound with Kemble playbills, dated 10 May, repeats the statement found under 12 Mar. beginning "The Box Office, for the present," and adds: "Proper persons will announce to the Company in the Upper Saloons, and from thence to the Lobbies and Boxes, the Carriages and Chairs drawn up before the Colonnades."] Receipts: #376 4s. 6d. (315/8/6; 50/19/0; 8/1/0; tickets not come in: 1/16/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: THE QUAKER

4006
10 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Pope. At the particular Desire of his Excellency the Ambassador [see 7 May] from the Sublime Porte:. 3rd piece: At End of Act I of the DIVERTISEMENT. Written by Edward Jerningham, Esq., with Alterations and Additions, interspersed with Music, after the manner of Rousseau's PYGMALION. Morning Chronicle, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Pope, Half-Moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #231 17s. (138/14; 3/3; tickets: 90/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: A DIVERTISEMENT

Afterpiece Title: MARGARET OF ANJOU

Song: In Act V of 1st piece, as17931216; End of 1st piece Black-Eyed Susan by Incledon

4007
13 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: THE PACKET-BOAT; or, A Peep behind the Veil

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Quick, Johnstone, Incledon, Munden//Miss Poole, Mrs Martyr. [Cast from European Magazine, May 1794, p. 388: Supple-Quick; Captain O'Phoenix-Johnstone; Woodford-Incledon; Scamper-Munden; Vintage-Powel; Midship-Cross//Isidora-Miss Poole; Jacquelina-Mrs Martyr; Commode-Mrs Watts.] hathi. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: BRITISH FORTITUDE AND HIBERNIAN FRIENDSHIP

Monologue: 1794 05 13 End of Act I of 1st piece A Plague on both your Houses; or, A Peep into New Drury and Covent-Garden Theatres, to conclude with a Comic Song, in the Character of an Old Woman of Eighty, by Munden

4008
14 May 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Banquet, Court, Procession as 1 May. Powell: Pirates rehearsed at 11. Receipts: #367 11s. (300/14; 61/8; 5/9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

4009
14 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Morning Herald, 6 May.: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 85, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #335 (77/2/0; 16/6/6; tickets: 241/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: FATAL EXTRAVAGANCE

Afterpiece Title: THE SPRIGS OF LAUREL

Song: End of 1st piece Old Towler by Incledon

4010
16 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett. Morning Chronicle, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, No. 9, Tottenham-Court-road, opposite Howland-street. Receipts: #332 16s. 6d. (71/4/0; 5/2/6; tickets: 256/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: HE WOU'D BE A SOLDIER

Dance: After the Monologue Dermot and Kathlane, as17931022

Song: In the course of mainpiece a Tippetywitchet, the words by O'Keeffe, with new Music by Shield, by Fawcett, in the Character of Dr Grigsby

Monologue: 1794 05 16 End of main piece a Jeu d' Esprit; or, Jerr Sneak's intended Law Suit with the Major, with The Little Pig lays without any Straw, by Fawcett

4011
19 May 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiecc in place of LOVE A-LA-MODE, advertised on playbill of 17 May.] Powell: Macbeth's scenes rehearsed at 11; Natural Son at 12. Receipts: #366 5s. (293/2/0; 69/12/6; 3/10/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: THE PRIZE

Song: Mainpiece: Chorus of Witches and Spirits by Kelly, Master Welsh, Sedgwick, Dignum, Cooke//Mrs Crouch, Mrs Bland, Miss Leak, Miss Menage, &c. &c

4012
22 May 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Miss Thomas. Tickets to be had of Miss Thomas, No. 41, Great Portland-street; and of Rice at the Theatre, where places for the Boxes may be taken. To begin at 6:45. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Servants to keep places are requested to be at the Theatre at half past Five o'Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: THREE WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE

Music: End of mainpiece Master Julien Baux, a Child under Six Years of Age, will perform a Concerto on the Violin by Viotti

Monologue: 1794 05 22 End of afterpiece an Occasional Address by Miss Thomas

4013
24 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bernard. 1st piece [1st time; M. PREL 1]: With the Storming of the Fort, and a View of the Fleet and Harbour. In which will be introduced the Grand Ceremony of the Enemy's Surrendering the Colours, and Marching out before the British Troops. The whole (including Dances) got up entirely under the direction of Byrn. Morning Herald, 13 May: Tickets to be had of Bernard at his house, No. 12, Kirby-street, Hatton Garden. Receipts: #249 8s. 6d. (83/9/6; 7/19/6; tickets: 157/19/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Martinico; Or, Britannia Triumphant

Afterpiece Title: THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM

Afterpiece Title: THE HIGHLAND REEL

Dance: In Act IV of 2nd piece a Masquerade, in which a Minuet by Mrs Pope and Byrn

Song: In Masquerade Old Towler by Incledon; End of 2nd piece A Catalogue of Plays and Farces; or, a Love Letter from Dick Ranter to Kitty Sprightly, to an old Tune, by Bernard; After which Sally in our Alley by Incledon

4014
31 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of PATRICK IN PRUSSIA, advertised on playbill of 30 May.] On account of Johnstone's Indisposition THE WORLD IN A VILLAGE [also advertised as above] is obliged to be deferred. Tickets delivered for that Comedy [Account-Book: by Claremont, W. Wilde, Jackson, Little, Hawtin, Roberts, Pollock, Curteen, Pilfold] will be admitted. Receipts: #399 13s. 6d. (55/4/6; 4/11/6; tickets: 339/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe in character by Jackson; End of mainpiece Dermot and Kathlane, as17931022

Opera: As17931211, but omitted: Mat o' the Mint. Also THE MIDNIGHT HOUR. As17931211, but omitted: Matthias, Ambrose

4015
10 June 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Meaux

Afterpiece Title: NETLEY ABBEY

Performance Comment: As22 May .

Afterpiece Title: THE SICILIAN ROMANCE

Dance: End of 1st piece The Wapping Landlady by Blurton, Mrs Ratchford, &c

4016
13 June 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Follet, Sloper & Farley. By Particular Desire of His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador [see 7 May). 2nd piece: To conclude with a Representation of the Engagement and Defeat of the French Navy, by the British Fleet under the Command of Lord Howe, on the Glorious First of June (1794); with the bringing in La Juste, Sans Pareille, L'America, L'Achille, Northumberland, et L'Eupeteux; and the Sinking of Le Vengeur; with Rule Britannia. Receipts: #357 10s. (66/2/6; 3/16/6; tickets: 287/11/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: A LOYAL EFFUSION

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUIN AND FAUSTUS

4017
20 June 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The playbill for this night announces as mainpiece MUCH ADO ABOUT NOT HING, but "The Publick are most respectfully informed that, on account of the sudden indisposition of a Principal Performer, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING cannot be acted. This Evening will be presented AS YOU LIKE IT" (printed slip attached to BM playbill, Harris, Vol. IV). "Mrs Kemble being ill, Miss Collins play'd Celia for Mrs Kemble and Miss Heard Phebe for Miss Collins" (Powell). Since Powell mentions no other changes, it may be assumed that the cast was otherwise the same as on 25 Apr.] Receipts: #208 8s. (127/1/6; 77/0/0; 4/6/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: LODOISKA

4018
15 November 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Horatia was at York, 10 May 1777. Afterpiece in place of The Wedding Day, advertised on playbill of 14 Nov.] Receipts: #350 11s. (270.10.6; 72.3.0; 7.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: In V: Triumphal Entry of Publius into Rome-; Chorus of Youths and Virgins [composed by Boyce]-Dignum, Master Welsh, Master Gregson, Cooke, Danby, Evans, Lyons, Welsh, Fisher, Annereau, Atkins, Aylmer, Boyce, Bardoleau, Brown, Cook, Denman, Dixon, Dorion, Dorion Jun., Mrs Bland, Miss Leak, Mrs Boimaison, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Butler, Miss Chatterley, Miss Gawdry, Miss Granger, Miss Menage, Miss Redhead, Miss Stageldoir, Mrs Maddocks

4019
06 December 1794 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera; the music entirely by Paisiello [performed at the Pantheon, 14 May 1791, as La Molinarella]. Bianchi and Martini [i.e. Martin y Soler] are both engaged as composers to this Theatre, and will each preside at the harpsichord the three first nights of every new Opera of their composition. Pit 10s. 6d. Gallery 5s. No Money to be returned. The Doors to be opened at 6:30. To begin at 7:30 [see 30 Apr. 1795]. The Nobility are intreated to give directions to their servants to set down and take up at the Theatre, with horses' heads towards Pall Mall. On account of abuses practised in the names of the Subscribers it is become necessary to require the production of the Subscription Tickets both at the doors and the Boxes, At the Chair-door in Market-lane Subscribers only will be admitted. "The Pantomime is too much in the gaudy stile of Italy, and even in this respect the ballet-master is not well seconded by the machinist; the decorations were unfinished, and the scenes clumsily shifted...We were sorry to find that the new and superb room, which the proprietor was encouraged to build, and Which was opened in its unfinished state last year, is now entirely shut up, through the cabal of some few of the subscribers who refuse a miserable guinea for its illumination. The inconvenience of getting away from the Theatre will consequently be severely felt by the Beau Monde" (Morning Chronicle, 8 Dec.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'amore Contrastato; Or, La Molinarella

Dance: End I: a Divertisement-Mme Hilligsberg, others; End II: [a grand Heroic Pantomime Ballet composed by Onorati Giustino I Imperatore dei Romani [; or, Il Trionfo dell' Amore e dell' Amicizia-D'Egville, Gentili, Aumer, Mme Ferlotti [Rinaldi], Mlle Rosine, Mme DelCaro, Mme Hilligsberg

4020
20 February 1795 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Principal Instrumental Performers-C. Ashley, Bridgtower, Archer, Harvey, Sarjant, Mahon, Boyce, Cantelo, Parkinson, Taylor, J. Sharp, Lavenu, Napier, Simpson, the Flacks, Purney, Seutze, Gwilliam, Monro, Wood, Warren, Woodham, Francis, M. Sharp, &c. Organ by J. Ashley. Double Drums by R. Ashley. The Chorusses will be numerous and compleat, and the Orchestra will consist of upwards of Two Hundred Performers. The whole under the Direction of Ashley. Boxes 6s. Pit 3s. 6d. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places to be taken, and Tickets for the Boxes may be had of Brandon at the Office in Hart-street. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]. [This performance was originally advertised to take place at the Pantheon, Oxford-street, but "The routed Host of Harmonists, driven from their new works in Oxford-road, hastily encamped last night [at Covent Garden]. Their performance...went off as might be expected from a scanty band, thus collected, without any previous rehearsal" (Morning Herald, 21 Feb.). The Pantheon had been destroyed by fire in January 1792. Work on its reconstruction had only recently been begun, and Was still not completed. It was reopened with a masquerade on 9 April 1795, the "usual licenses being now fully renewed and established" (Morning Herald, 9 Apr.).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Main Of Sacred Music, From The Works Of handel

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

4021
21 February 1795 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; HIST. D 5, by George Watson. Prologue and Address by the author (European Magazine, Apr. 1795, pp. 267, 268)]: With new Dresses and Decorations. Morning Chronicle, 11 May 1795: This Day is published England Preserved (2s.). Receipts: #209 0s. 6d. (199.13.0; 9.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: England Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Crotchet Lodge

Ballet: Dermot and Kathlane. As17950219

4022
27 February 1795 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music Chiefly From handel

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Performance Comment: Grand Overture- (Haydn); Angels ever bright and fair-Mme Banti; May no rash intruder-Chorus; Oft on a plat of rising ground-Harrison; Lo he is our God-Miss Leak (Dr Arnold); For unto us-Chorus; Air accompanied on harp by Mrs Dussek-Mme Banti (Gulielmi); Recitativo-Miss Leak, Harrison; Sing ye to the Lord-Mme Banti; The horse and his rider-Chorus.
Cast
Role: May no rash intruder Actor: Chorus

4023
04 March 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Thespian Panorama; Or, Three Hours Heart's Ease

Performance Comment: [Composed of a variety of Matter, Musical, Rhetorical and Imitative; the greatest part of which has never yet been offered to the Public. The new Music by Shield, Carter and Reeve; The Selection from Martini i.e. Martin y Soler], Giordani, Storace, Jackson, Stevens, Pleyel. The Recitals will principally be new, and mostly spoken by Palmer; The Interlocutory Parts that connect the whole will likewise be delivered by him, and the other Parts of the Entertainment will be given by Johnstone, Wathen, Williames, Caulfield, Bannister, Mrs Mountain. Part 1. Exordium [written by Arthur Murphy, spoken by-Palmer; Overture [composed by Stamitz-; [New Glee The shipwreck'd Sailors (see dl, 19 May) [composed by an amateur-; Thespian Advice [spoken by-Palmer; Gipsey Jenny-; The Sailor's Joke [sung by-Wathen; A Milesian Pasticcio [spoken by-Johnstone; An attempt to cleanse the Augean Stable-; Love of our Country-; [Glee, Britain's best Bulwarks are her Wooden Walls-; [Part II. An Overture [by Clementi-; Neptune's Exhortation-; [the Death of Faulknor-; [The Country Clergyman [spoken by-Wathen; Anna's Lullaby [sung by-Johnstone; The Cambrian Quack [or Killing no Murder, spoken by-Williames; A further Attempt at the Stable-; Exhortation to Unanimity-; The Royal Nuptials-; Happiness and the House of Brunswick-; [Part III. The Overture [by Haydn-; The Comforts of Dust [or the Citizen's Cake-House-; Nothing but a Place [sung by-Wathen; Noli me tangere [or No jesting with Edged Tools-; Fancy's Festival [sung by-Johnstone; The Profit of Prosody-; [Irish Explanation, Tho' born in a Stable a Man's not a Horse [sung by-Mrs Mountain; Finale of Gratitude-; other Parts-Caulfield, Bannister.

4024
13 March 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music; Messiah

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Performance Comment: The flocks shall leave the mountains-Miss Parke, Nield, Bartleman; Wretched Lovers-Chorus (Acis and Galatea); O Liberty-Kelly accompanied on the violoncello-C. Ashley (Judas Maccabaeus); May no rash Intruder-Chorus (Solomon); Wave from wave-Wonder (Israel in Egypt); Ye sacred Priests, Farewell ye limpid springs-Miss Parke (Jephtha); O God who in thy heavenly hand-Chorus (Joseph).
Cast
Role: May no rash Intruder Actor: Chorus

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Music: 6th concerto of Giordani on the violin-C. Ashley

4025
19 March 1795 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by John O'Keeffe. Prologue by John Taylor (see text). Address by John Wolcot (Pocket Magazine, supra)]: With new Dresses and Decorations. [Mrs Lee was from the Salisbury theatre.] Morning Chronicle, 11 May 1795: This Day is published Life's Vagaries (2s.). Receipts: #268 3s. 6d. (259.19.6; 8.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Life's Vagaries

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: In: I can dance and sing-Mrs Lee. [Not listed on playbill, but see BUC, p. 619.