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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.

5151
28 February 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by Mr Steele

Performances

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

Dance: Dutch Skipper-Wade, Mrs Bicknell; Harlequin-Mrs Santlow; French Peasant-Wade, Mrs Santlow

5152
14 March 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

5153
24 March 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Pack. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: A Masque of Musick, compos'd by the late Mr Hen. Purcel. Receipts: #158 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens; Or, The Man-hater

Afterpiece Title: Bacchus and Cupid

Song: Dialogues-Leveridge, Cook, Pack

Dance: As17150305

5154
20 April 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Music: In: a cantata, The Meditation by Pepusch-Mrs del'Epine, Mrs Barbier

5155
16 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Song: As17150513

Dance: Spanish Entry, Scaramouch-Thurmond, lately arriv'd from Ireland

5156
18 May 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

5157
23 May 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

5158
17 June 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Young Persons that perform the Play. Written by Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Song: Miss Booth

5159
05 September 1715 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bateman; Or, The Fair Vow Breaker

5160
13 October 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

5161
19 November 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Song: As17151006

Dance: As17151029; Dutch Skipper-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock; The last new comic dance-Moreau, Mrs Cross

5162
21 November 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Song: As17151006

Dance: As17151104; The last new comic dance-Moreau, Mrs Cross

5163
22 November 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Dance: Dancing Proper to the Masque-delaGarde, Moreau, Thurmond, Shaw, Newhouse, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding

5164
29 November 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Shaw, Mrs Schoolding

5165
13 December 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

5166
14 December 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Stepmother

Dance: As17151104

5167
20 January 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Cast
Role: Sir Davy Actor: Johnson

Song: Turner, Rawlins

5168
10 February 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Beau Demolish'd

Dance: As17151102

5169
21 February 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perfidious Brother

5170
04 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Whimsical Death of Harlequin

5171
11 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Afterpiece: [By Richard Leveridge.] A Comic Masque, compos'd in the high Style of Italy. N.B. The Books of the Masque are just printed for W. Mears...and sold by him, and at Mr Leveridge's in Tavistock-street. Receipts: #37 10s. 6d. and tickets #75 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe, Lyon, Moonshine, and Wall

Music: With all New Musick (for that Night) both Vocal and Instrumental Musick-

5172
16 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: hamlet

Performance Comment: Advertised as a benefit for Thurmond, but Rich's Register states: No Play by reason Mr Thurmond did not lay down 20 Guineas in the office for his Benefit.

5173
07 May 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Dance: A new Italian Night Scene Between Harlequin and Mezzetin-Sorin, Baxter

5174
18 May 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Younger. By His Royal Highness's Command. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Dryden. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Song: A New Cantata-Turner

Music: A New Concerto on the Violin-Bitty

Dance: As17151122; Dutch Skipper-Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger

5175
30 May 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Robinson and Turner. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Dryden. Afterpiece: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality, we are oblig'd (instead of The What D'Ye Call It) to Act...The Country Wake

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evening's Love; Or, The Mock Astrologer

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Song: Mad Song, Mad Dialogue (composed by $Purcell)-Turner, Mrs Willis in their proper Habits

Dance: As17151122; Harlequin-Mrs Santlow; Mimic Song and Dance-Mrs Willis