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3710 results for: Keyword - James Bencraft
We found 2178 matches on Author, 1351 matches on Performance Comments, 362 matches on Event Comments, 35 matches on Performance Title, and 32 matches on Roles/Actors.

2201
26 August 1731 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Banishd General Or The Distrest Lovers

Performance Comment: Montfort-W. Mills; Rakish-Oates; Jenny-Mrs Roberts; King-Tenoe; Sir Wilful Westford-R. Wetherilt; Colonel Westford-Adam Hallam; Tipple-Bardin; Gudgeon-Young Bencraft; Plausey-Evans; Arbella-Miss Oates; Lady Westford-Mrs Wetherilt; Widow-Mrs Lacy; Genius-Mrs Phillpot; Hobble Wallop-Jo. Miller.
Cast
Role: Gudgeon Actor: Young Bencraft

Song: Evans, Miss Williams, Young Bencraft

Dance: Evans, Miss Williams, Young Bencraft

2202
15 November 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Music: Vocal parts by Leveridge, Stoppelaer, Mrs Wright, Miss Norsa, Miss Hillyard, proper to the Play

Dance: Proper to the Play by Lally, Nivelon, Tench, Desse, Richardson, Livier, Delagarde, Bencraft, Smith

2203
27 December 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17351115, but Banquo-Bridgwater; Lenox-Walker; Duncan-Paget; Witches-Mullart, Neale, James .
Cast
Role: Witches Actor: Mullart, Neale, James

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Music: As17351115, but Miss Norsa omitted

Dance: As17351115, but Nivelon, Delagarde, Bencraft, and Smith omitted

2204
07 August 1738 @ Tottenham Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mad Lovers Or Sport Upon Sport With The Comical Humours Of Squire Graygoose His Man Doodle My Lady Graygoose Captain Atall

Performance Comment: Squire Graygoose-Bencraft; Doodle-Penkethman; Lady Graygoose (Colombine)-Mrs Dove; Captain Atall (Harlequin)-DelaHayes; Mixum-Dove; Bridemen-DelaGrange, LeBrune, Bellguard; Bride Maids-Mlle DelaGrange, Mlle LeBrune, Mrs Penkethman.
Cast
Role: Squire Graygoose Actor: Bencraft

Song: the two Mhe two Master Hamilton

Dance: A comic Peasant Dance-DelaGrange, Mlle DelaGrange, LeBrune, Mlle LeBrune, Bencraft, Mrs Penkethman

Music: an extraordinaryBan extraordinaryBand of Musick is provided, consisting of Violins, Hautboys, Bassoons, Kettle-Drums, Trumpets, French-Horns

2205
23 August 1738 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mans Bewitchd Or The Devil To Do About Her

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Hays; Colombine-Mrs Dove; Don Furioso-Bencraft; Diego-Penkethman; Friends of Don Furioso-DelaGrange, LeBrune, Belguard, Mlle DelaGrange, Mlle LeBrune, Mrs Penkethman.
Cast
Role: Don Furioso Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding or The Roving Shepherd

Dance: CComic Ballet for Bride-Men and Bride-Maids-DelaGrange, Mlle DelaGrange, LeBrune, Mlle LeBrune, Bencraft, Mrs Penkethman

Music: An extraordinary Band

2206
05 September 1738 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mans Bewitched

Performance Comment: Squire Graygoose-Bencraft; Doodle-Dove; Lady Graygoose(Colombide)-Mrs Dove; Atall(Harlequin)-DelaHays; Mixum-Rosoman; Bride Men-DelaGrange, LeBrune, Bellguard; Bride Maids-Mlle DelaGrange, Mlle DelaBrune, Mrs Lax , but see bf, 23 Aug..
Cast
Role: Squire Graygoose Actor: Bencraft

Dance: A comic peasant Dance-DelaGrange, Mlle DelaGrange, LeBrune, Mlle LeBrun, Bencraft, Mrs Lax

Music:

2207
23 August 1740 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Harlequin Scapin Or The Old One Caught In A Sack

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers or The Press Gang

Performance Comment: Tom Trueblue-Bencraft; Old Britton-Arthur; Lieutenant Dreadnaught-Yates; Nancy-Mrs Villeneuve; with a Grand Chorus-; with Violins, Bassoons, Hautboys, French Horns, Trumpets, Kettle Drums-.
Cast
Role: Tom Trueblue Actor: Bencraft

Dance: Oates, Yates, Bencraft, Gray, Julian, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Phillips; particularly The Spanish Beauties-

2208
26 September 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Delane; Macduff-Ryan; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Horton; King-Roberts; Malcolm-Hallam; Banquo-Bridgwater; Lenox-Stephens; Donalbain-Gibson; Seyward-Hale; Seyton-Arthur; Lady Macduff-Mrs Stevens; Hecate-Rosco; Witches-James, Neale, Mullart; Murderer-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Witches Actor: James, Neale, Mullart

Music: With the Original Musick-; Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Salway, Roberts, Thompson, Stoppelaer, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young, Mrs Chambers, Mrs James, Mrs Vincent

Dance: Dancing-Villeneuve, Richardson, Delagarde, Dupre, Bencraft, Master Oates

2209
04 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Bridgwater; Learchus-Hippisley; Beau-Chapman; Hogstye-Woodward; Hortensia-Mrs Horton; Oronces-Hale; Roger-Marten; Quaint-James; Fruitful-Vaughan; Tradesmen-Stoppelaer, Smith; Euphronia-Mrs Hale; Mrs Fruitful-Mrs Martin; Dorio-Mrs Pritchard; With a Prologue-; Epilogue-; Songs proper to the Occasion-.
Cast
Role: Quaint Actor: James

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Slango Actor: Bencraft

Song: Songs in Masonry-Salway, Bencraft; Arra my Judy (by desire)-Stoppelaer

Entertainment: CCries of London-Salway

Dance: PPantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

2210
30 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Daniel Actor: James
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Song-Beard; To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Reinhold, Bencraft

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17431124; Dance-Cooke

2211
02 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: Old Man Taught Wisdom or The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17431124; Dance-Cooke

Song: (BBy Desire) To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold, Bencraft; Favourite Duette My Faith and Truth, from oratorio Sampson,-Mrs Clive, Miss Edwards

2212
16 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Cast
Role: Countrymen Actor: Woodward, James.

Dance: Several entertainments-LaLauze (being his first attempt of that kind these two years); particularly: II: The Amorous Swain; or The Rival Nimphs-Lalauze, Mlle Bonneval, Mrs Delagarde; III: Serious Dance-Cooke; IV: Les Jardiniers Suedois-Lalauze, Mlle Domitilla, Cooke, Mlle Bonneval; (By Desire) after Farce:, a Ball Dance call'd The Louvre,concluding with a Minuet-Lalauze, Lalauze's a boy scholar, Mlle Bonneval

Song: V: To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold, Bencraft

2213
03 May 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: The Songs in Masonry-Leveridge, Stoppelaer, Bencraft

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

2214
14 June 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury Who Was Poisond In The Tower In The Reign Of King James The First

2215
19 June 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury Who Was Poisond In The Tower In The Reign Of King James The First

2216
30 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Song:

Dance: Drunken Swiss-Noaseman; French Peasant-James

2217
14 July 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Contrivance

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats

Dance: Newhouse, Pelling, James, Ogden; particularly Swedish Dal Karle-; Spinning Wheel Dance-

2218
29 July 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

Dance: Newhouse, Pelling, James, Mrs Ogden; particularly Swedish Dal Karle-; Spinning Wheel Dance-; Irish Dance- (in Fingalian Habits)

2219
24 September 1724 @ Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus King Of Thebes

Dance: Haughton, Mrs Ogden, James, Mrs Haughton; End II: particulary Tollet's Grounds-Mrs Haughton, Mrs Ogden; End IV: French Peasant-; End V: Swedish Dale Karl-Haughton, Mrs Ogden

2220
01 February 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Witches Actor: Mullart, James, Neale, .

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Music: The Vocal Parts, as17361020, but Mrs James, Mrs _Cantrell

Dance: As17361020; Also Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; Peasant, as17370128

2221
03 January 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Delane; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Hallam; Macduff-Ryan; King-Bridgwater; Malcolm-A. Hallam; Banquo-Walker; Lenox-Stephens; Seyward-Hale; Seyton-Aston; Lady Macduff-Mrs Stevens; Hecate-Rosco; Witches-Mullart, James, Penkethman; Murderer-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Witches Actor: Mullart, James, Penkethman

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Music: With theOriginal Musick-; The Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Laguerre, Salway, Roberts, Thompson, Stoppelaer, Miss Hillyard, Mrs James, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Kilby

Dance: Glover, Mlle Roland, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

2222
06 October 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Delane; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Hallam; Macduff-Ryan; Lady Macduff-Mrs Stevens; Banquo-Bridgwater; Malcolm-Hallam; King-Rosco; Lenox-Stephens; Seyward-Hale; Seyton-Arthur; Donalbain-A. Ryan; Murderer-Hippisley; Hecate-Mullart; Witches-Penkethman, James, Neale.
Cast
Role: Witches Actor: Penkethman, James, Neale.

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Music: With the Original Musick-; The Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Laguerre, Salway, Roberts, Thompson, Stoppelaer, Mrs James, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Kilby

Dance: The usual Dances-proper to the Play

2223
20 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17381229, but Hecate-Rosco; Witches-Penkethman, James, Neale.
Cast
Role: Witches Actor: Penkethman, James, Neale.

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda or The Cheats of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Perseus-Salway; Cepheus-Leveridge; Aethiopian-Thompson; Cassiope-Mrs Wright; Andromeda-Mrs Chambers; Mercury-Vincent; Amazons-Mrs James, Miss Oates, Mrs Bullock, Mlle Ozanne, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Dancey; Infernals-Leveridge, Haughton, Villeneuve, Dupre, Richardson, Delagarde, Thompson; Hussar-Bencraft; Harlequin-Lun; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Hussar's Servant-Hippisley; Valet-James; Petit Maitre-Lalauze; Concluding with the Grand Dance in Momus, a Fawn-Glover.
Cast
Role: Amazons Actor: Mrs James, Miss Oates, Mrs Bullock, Mlle Ozanne, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Dancey
Role: Hussar Actor: Bencraft
Role: Valet Actor: James
Related Works
Related Work: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All Author(s): James Messink

Music: Vocal Parts [for Macbeth]-Leveridge, Salway, Roberts, Thompson, Stoppelaer, Mrs James, Mrs Wright, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Kilby

2224
25 October 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Delane; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Hallam; Macduff-Ryan; Lady Macduff-Mrs Stevens; Banquo-Bridgwater; Lenox-Stephens; King-Roberts; Malcolm-Hallam; Seyward-Hale; Seyton-Arthur; Donalbain-A. Ryan; Murtherer-Hippisley; Hecate-Rosco; Witches-James, Neale, Mullart.
Cast
Role: Witches Actor: James, Neale, Mullart.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: James Actor: Anderson

Ballet: The Reprizal. As17391015

Music: With the Original Musick- [for Macbeth]; Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Laguerre, Salway, Roberts, Thompson, Stoppelaer, Mrs Chambers, Mrs James, Mrs Vincent

2225
29 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Related Works
Related Work: Ramah Droog; or, Wine does Wonders Author(s): James Cobb

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: Brother Montgomery; In Daily Advertiser, 28 April: I: The Enter'd Prentice's Song-Brother Montgomery, other Masons; in their proper Habiliments. II: Advice to the Sons of Bacchus the words by Excell; music by James-Excell; IV: On on my dear Brethren-

Performance Comment: II: Advice to the Sons of Bacchus the words by Excell; music by James-Excell; IV: On on my dear Brethren-.
Cast
Role: James Actor: Excell

Music: In Daily Advertiser, 28 April:A Concerto on the Harpsichord-James