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451 results for: Keyword - Benjamin Martyn
We found 373 matches on Author, 55 matches on Performance Comments, 27 matches on Event Comments, 7 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

26
18 November 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: No Money under full price will be taken [repeated]. Afterpiece: Never acted there before [the actor Benjamin Griffin's farce, not acted since its author's benefit night, April 6, 1716, at lif]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Purgatory

Related Works
Related Work: The Humours of Purgatory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Song: Barlow

Dance: As17451028

27
29 April 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Holman. 1st piece [1st time; C 5, by Benjamin Hoadly, based partly on L'Ecole des Femmes, by Moliere. Larpent MS 1160; not published. Prologue by John Taylor; Epilogue by Edward Jerningham (European Magazine, May 1797, p. 342)]: Mr Holman having been favored by the Family of Doctor Hoadly, Author of the Suspicious Husband, with a Manuscript Comedy in Five Acts, the production of that celebrated Writer, he most respectfully informs the Public that it will be presented under the Title of The Tatlers. True Briton, 1 May: The Play was given to Holman by Dr Hoadly Ashe, Hoadly's nephew. Ibid, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Holman, No. 14, John-street, Adelphi. Account-Book: Paid Insurance and Duty on #10,000 for one year from 16th Inst. at the Royal Exchange Fire Office #136 17s; ditto on #10,000 for one year from Lady Day at the Phoenix Fire Office #112 10s. Receipts: #290 11s. 6d. (143.16.0; 10.11.6; tickets: 136.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tatlers

Related Works
Related Work: The Tatlers Author(s): Benjamin Hoadly

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Afterpiece Title: Netley Abbey

28
24 March 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; D 5, by Benjamin Thompson, altered from Menschenhass und Reue, by August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue. Prologue by William Linley; Epilogue by Matthew Gregory Lewis (European Magazine, Mar. 1798, p. 260)]: With new Scenes, Dresses, &c. With Musick [by Thomas Shaw]. "Mrs Siddons was succesful in all the impassioned parts; but she cannot sustain a mixed character. She is the Muse of Tragedy herself, and when she descends from her lofty state to the level of familiar dialogue, she instantly ceases to astonish and we to admire" (Monthly Mirror, Apr. 1798, p. 234). "The dialogue must be considerably abridged, as well for the purpose of preserving the interest of the piece, as for shortening the time of representation, which is at least an hour too long, it being half past ten before the curtain dropt" [see 26 Mar.] (Morning Herald, 26 Mar.). Receipts: #420 7s. 6d. (378.11.6; 40.18.0; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Related Works
Related Work: The Stranger Author(s): Benjamin Thompson

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Song: Incidental: Vocal Parts-Mrs Bland, Miss Leak their songs; To welcome mirth and harmless glee-Mrs Bland, Miss Leak; I have a silent sorrow here-Mrs Bland

Dance: Incidental to mainpiece: Principal Dancer-Sga Bossi DelCaro. [These were the same in all subsequent performances, except on 5 May.

29
31 December 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Dodd as Sir Benjamin Backbite, but he "being taken suddenly ill Yesterday Evening, his character in The School for Scandal was obliged to be supplied by Burton" (Public Advertiser, 1 Jan. 1782).] Receipts: #217 15s. (187/8; 30/7; 0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17810927, but Sir Benjamin Backbite-Burton .
Cast
Role: Sir Benjamin Backbite Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

30
17 October 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "The only fault we observed was [Miss Biggs's] mode of turning away at the close of every speech, and retiring towards the back of the stage, as if the character was of no consequence when the speech was ended" (True Briton, 18 Oct.). MS annotation on Kemble playbill: Rehearsals--Cheap Living at 10; Sir Benjamin Backbite's scenes at 11; Irish Widow at 12; Adela'rs scenes, Haunted Tower at 1. Receipts: #247 16s. 6d. (162.0.0; 82.12.6; 3.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17970919, but Sir Benjamin Backbite-Russell; Snake-_.
Cast
Role: Sir Benjamin Backbite Actor: Russell

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Song: As17970919

Entertainment: Entertainment.As17971016

31
05 July 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Sack Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Cross

32
07 July 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Sack Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: As17150705

33
21 July 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Wife; Or, The Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Sack Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: As17150705 Spanish Entry, Punch-Shaw

34
23 August 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Sack Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Song: Proud Woman, I Scorn You-Pack, Cook

Dance: Scaramouch-Thurmond Jr; Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Cross; Miller's Dance, as17150810

35
31 August 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Wife; Or, A Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Sack Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: As17150823

36
16 January 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Sack Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance:

37
04 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Purgatory

Related Works
Related Work: The Humours of Purgatory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: As17151028

38
06 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Purgatory

Related Works
Related Work: The Humours of Purgatory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: Moreau, Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Tully, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross

39
27 January 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

40
28 January 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

41
29 January 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Afterpiece Title: Hob's Wedding

42
01 February 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

43
02 February 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

44
04 February 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

45
16 February 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance:

46
25 February 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance:

47
17 December 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers

48
19 December 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

49
29 July 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Music: Between Play and Opera: a Piece of Musick on the Violin-Clarke; accompany'd Harpsichord-Magnes; Also a Voluntary-Magnes alone, being the first Time of his Performance in Publick

50
01 August 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Related Works
Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding

Music: As17290729

Dance: