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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.

4676
16 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Ryder. Gazetteer, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Ryder at his house, No. 5, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #242 19s. (118.8; 13.8; tickets: 111.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady; or, The Sailor in Distress-

Entertainment: Monologue. After Dancing: fable, The Old Man Son and Ass-Ryder; End afterpiece: Bucks have at ye All-Ryder

4677
21 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. 2nd piece: Taken from Mrs Centlivre's Gamesters [recte: Gamester]. 3rd piece [1st time; M.INT 1]: The Accompaniments by Shield. Gazetteer 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 10, Great Russell-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #296 11s. (153.2.6; 3.4.6; tickets:140.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Pharo Table

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival

Afterpiece Title: Patrick in Prussia i

4678
22 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: As17891204

4679
18 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. 2nd piece [1st time; INT 1]. Receipts: #247 15s. 6d. (40.8.0; 17.2.0; 1.1.6; tickets: 189.4.0) (charge: #114 17s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: Taste; or, Frolicks of Fancy

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Entertainment: Monologue. Previous: British Loyalty, as17900423; to conclude with: God save the King-Dignum, Williames, Danby

4680
18 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means; or, A Trip to Dover

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Entertainment: Monologue. End 1st piece: As17900614

Cast
Role: Occasional Address Actor: Bensley.

4681
19 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: Bentley Actor: Williamson

Dance: End I: Minuet de la Cour and Gavot-Byrn, Mrs Goodwin

Entertainment: Monologue. As17900615

Cast
Role: Occasional Address Actor: Bensley.

4682
04 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Iliff

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: Inkle and Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Thimble's Flight from the Shopboard

4683
11 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. 1st piece: Never [previously] acted here. 2nd piece [1st time; INT i, by Henry Siddons. Prologue by John Taylor (see text)]. Gazetteer, 28 Aug. 1790: This Day is published Modern Breakfast (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Performance Comment: Marquis D'Almanza-Williamson; Duke Murcia-Ryder; Count Valentia-R. Palmer; Seville-Chapman; Granada-Evatt; Peasant-Bensley; Marchioness-Mrs Brooks; Amanthis-Mrs Kemble.
Cast
Role: Peasant Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Modern Breakfast; or, All Asleep at Noon

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Dance: End 2nd piece: A Double Hornpipe-Platt, Mrs Goodwin

4684
16 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: Major Cyprus-Palmer; Anthony Euston-Bensley; Colonel Downright-Aickin; Charles Euston-Iliff; Sir George Euston-Williamson; Sir Harry Harmless-R. Palmer; Mr Euston-Moss; Lady Euston-Mrs Brooks; Lady Harriet-Mrs Whitfield; Bloom-Mrs Cuyler; Mrs Euston-Mrs Kemble.
Cast
Role: Anthony Euston Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Liberty, as17900813

4685
11 September 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

4686
16 September 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: Sir Clement Flint-Bensley; Clifford-Wroughton; Lord Gayville-Palmer; Alscrip-Suett; Chignon-Baddeley; Mrs Blandish-Whitfield; Prompt-R. Palmer; Mr Rightly-Aickin; Lady Emily-Miss Farren; Miss Alscrip-Miss Pope; Miss Alton-Mrs Crouch; Mrs Blandish-Mrs Williames.
Cast
Role: Sir Clement Flint Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Song: In II: song-Mrs Crouch. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

4687
13 October 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Mr Palmer most respectfully informs the Publick, the Lord Chamberlain having given Permission, Mr Colman having liberally granted the use of the Theatre, and his Brethren kindly consented to perform, that [there] will be presented...[as above. This benefit had originally been arranged for 20 Sept., but because of the death of the Duke of Cumberland, the theatre on that night was dark.] Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London Road, St. George's Fields; and of Rice, at the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Entertainment: Monologues. End: The Lecture upon Heads-Palmer; After which: Liberty; or, Two Sides of the Water-Bannister Jun

4688
19 October 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

4689
03 November 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Provocation

4690
11 January 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

4691
10 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells. Mainpiece [1st time: C 5, by Simon. Prologue by John Henniker (Town and Country Magazine, June 1791, p. 281). Larpent MS 906; not published; synopsis of plot in Morning Post, 11 May]. "Scarcely [any] performer in the piece thought it worth while to charge their memories with words, that they would wish afterwards, if they had, to forget as fast as possible...The imitations were some tolerably true, and a few excellent. Siddons and Storace were outrageous caricatures. Mrs Wells once came infinitely nearer the former. She is now deficient in tone and emphasis--all is shiver and sob. Mrs Crawford, Mrs Jordan and Mrs Abington were worthy her talents in the mimetic art" (Oracle, 11 May). Public Advertiser, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wells, No. 12, Weymouth-street, Portland-place. Receipts: #313 3s. (148.15; 8.7; tickets: 156.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: National Prejudice

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Entertainment: Imitations End II: (for that Night only some) Comic Imitations-Mrs Wells; End: instead of an Epilogue, some Tragic Imitations-Mrs Wells

4692
11 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Public Advertiser, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 14, Lower Charlotte-street, Bedford Square. Receipts: #335 1s. (81.9; 5.14 tickets: 247.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Dance: As17910507

4693
12 May 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer. The Public is respecfully inform'd that the Prelude of The Hop formerly advertised for Mr Palmer's Benefit is on a very particular account withdrawn from the Theatre. Oracle, 7 May: Tickets to be had of R. Palmer, No. 14, East Place, Lambeth. Receipts: #292 5s. 6d. (77.13.0; 30.15.6; 2.6.0; tickets: 181.11.0) (charge: #117 0s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Sir Clement Flint Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Entertainment: Monologue. End: The Picture of a Play@House, or, Bucks have at ye all-R. Palmer

4694
13 June 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Performance Comment: Major Cyprus-Palmer; Anthony Euston-Bensley; Colonel Downright-Aickin; Charles Euston-Iliff; Sir George Euston-Williamson; Sir Harry Harmless-R. Palmer; Mr Euston-Parsons; Lady Euston-Mrs Brooks; Lady Harriet-Mrs Whitfield; Bloom-Mrs Cuyler; Mrs Euston-Mrs Kemble.
Cast
Role: Anthony Euston Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

4695
12 August 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Beneift for Mr and Mrs Iliff

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

4696
03 October 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Drury

Afterpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Duke-Aickin; Frederick-Packer; Amiens (with songs)-Dignum; Jaques-Palmer; Le Beau-R. Palmer; Oliver-Whitfield; Jaques de Bois-Benson; Orlando-Barrymore; Adam-Moody; Touchstone-King; Corin-Waldron; Silvius-Bland; William-Burton; Rosalind (with the Cuckoo Song)-Mrs Jordan; Celia-Mrs Kemble; Phebe-Miss Collins; Audrey-Mrs Edwards.
Cast
Role: Jaques de Bois Actor: Benson

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Song: V 2nd piece: song-Miss Hagley

4697
30 November 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Petruchio-Palmer; Baptista-Packer; Hortensio-Benson; Grumio-Baddeley [Public Advertiser, i.e. playbill erroneouly lists Packer]; Musick Master-Fawcett; Biondello-R. Palmer; Pedro-Phillimore; Taylor-Burton; Nathaniel-Lyons; Peter-Alfred; Nicholas-Banks; Joseph-Webb; Katharine-Mrs Goodall; Bianca-Miss Tidswell; Curtis-Mrs Booth; Milliner-Miss Palmer.
Cast
Role: Hortensio Actor: Benson

4698
01 December 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Performance Comment: Lord Townly-Kemble; Mr Manly-Bensley; Sir F. Wronghead-Parsons; Squire Richard-Burton; John Moody-Moody [sic]; Count Basset-Dodd; James-Benson; Poundage-Fawcett; Constable-Maddocks; Servant-Lyons; Lady Townly-Miss Farren; Lady Grace-Mrs Ward; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Hopkins; Miss Jenny-Miss Collins; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Booth; Myrtilla-Miss Heard; Mrs Trusty-Mrs Heard [Kemble playbill erroneously lists Miss Hagley].Kemble playbill erroneously lists Miss Hagley].
Cast
Role: Mr Manly Actor: Bensley
Role: James Actor: Benson

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

4699
31 December 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Cast
Role: Ismael Actor: Benson

4700
07 February 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Bensley
Role: Sir Robert Brackenbury Actor: Benson

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman