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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,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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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.

3951
12 August 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Wife To Be Let

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

3952
16 August 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Impertinent Lovers; Or, A Coquet At Her Wits End

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

3953
28 October 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Dance: Mrs Booth, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; Peasant-Roger

Music: Select Pieces-

3954
08 December 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Song: Singing in Italian-Mrs Robinson

3955
19 February 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Money The Mistress

3956
26 November 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

3957
07 December 1728 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

3958
08 January 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Riddle

3959
21 January 1729 @ Bow Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanter

3960
16 May 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Orphan Children of the late Mr Farquhar. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Tickets for Roberts, Mrs Moore, and Young Leigh taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Lover's Opera

3961
05 July 1729 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Harlequin

3962
19 July 1729 @ Windmill Hill

Performances

3963
17 March 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. By Command of His Royal Highness. Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #75 17s.; tickets #119 6s. Daily Journal, 21 March: After the Play...the Prince of Wales and a great Number of the Nobility being Present, Mr Leveridge (whose Benefit is also to come very shortly) advanced upon the Stage, and after paying his Honours to the Audience, invited them to his Benefit, by a humorous Song set to the merry Tune of the Black Joke; which was receiv'd by the whole House with a universal Encore

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Music: Preamble on the Kettle Drum-Poitier

Dance: End I: Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; II: French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; III: Numidian-Glover, Miss LaTour; IV: Highlander and Mistress=-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; V: Polonese-Poitier, Miss LaTour

3964
20 April 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Milward. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison. Afterpiece: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Mr Essex Hawker. Receipts: money #42 2s. 6d.; tickets #97 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ato

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding

Related Works
Related Work: Momus Turn'd Fabulist; or, Vulcan's Wedding Author(s): Ebenezer Forrest

3965
21 November 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Dance: Mrs Booth

3966
10 February 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

3967
20 April 1732 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

3968
21 April 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Shireburn, Wright, Miss Norris. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Cast
Role: Sable Actor: Johnson.

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: Essex, Thurmond, Lally, Houghton, Tench, Mrs Booth, Mrs Walter, Mrs Delorme, Miss Robinson; particularly The Masques-; Highland Dance-a Native of that Country , for his Diversion

3969
11 October 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Dance: DDutch Skipper-D'Valois, Mrs Bullock; Tambourine-Miss Wherrit; Sailor's Dance-Jones

3970
14 October 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd

Dance: new Scots Dance-Houghton, Mrs Walter

3971
20 January 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

3972
24 January 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

3973
13 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Sisters of the deceas'd Mr Gay. Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #153 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

3974
19 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Sisters of the Deceas'd Mr Gay. Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #165 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

3975
24 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #146 9s. 6d. Benefit the Sisters of the deceased Mr Gay. Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles