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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.

5626
09 April 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Bluff Actor: Johnson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy and Poor Pierrot Married

5627
22 April 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feign'd Innocence

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy

5628
07 May 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Lally. Written by the late Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: End I: Pastoral-Young Master Lally, Miss Brett; II: A new Spanish Entry-Lally, others; III: Harlequins-Master Lally, Miss Brett; IV: The Pierraite-Roger, Mrs Brett; V: A new Muzette-Lally, Mrs Booth

5629
22 May 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Lacy, Pitt, Mrs Rice. Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #4 10s.; tickets #87 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 3 by money and 76 by tickets; stage, 4 by money; pit, 4 by money and 261 by tickets; first gallery, 4 by money and 294 by tickets; second gallery, 18 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Grand Dance of Moors-Glover, Newhouse, Pelling, Lanyon, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Anderson, Miss LaTour; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

5630
05 October 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

5631
18 October 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Ivth, Part Ii; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff And Justice Shallow

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy and Poor Pierrot Married

5632
28 October 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance:

5633
12 November 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: Essex, Miss Robinson, Young Lally, Miss Brett

5634
19 December 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

5635
31 December 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

5636
31 December 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Crokatt, Bookseller. Written by Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #25 5s. 6d.; tickets #98 17s. Probable attendance: boxes, 18 by money and 121 by tickets; pit, 52 by money and 398 by tickets; first gallery, 72 by money and 87 by tickets; second gallery, 81 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: SScotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; Two Pierrots-Salle, Pelling; Les Vandangeurs-Moreau, Mrs Moreau

5637
04 January 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance:

5638
24 January 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Bluff Actor: Johnson

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

5639
07 February 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Music: Kontzen, a Youth of 7 Years of Age, lately arriv'd from Germany, being the first Time of his Appearance on the Stage

5640
10 February 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Themistocles, The Lover Of His Country

5641
11 February 1729 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Sandham Jr, Dove, and Webster. Written by the late Mr Otway

Performances

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

Dance: Sandham, Mrs Hill

Song: DDear Pretty Maid-Nicholls, Mrs Mountfort

5642
21 February 1729 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Michael Festing. At Mr Topham's Great Room. Tickets 5s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

5643
10 March 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Johnson
Role: Ben Actor: Miller

Dance: Essex, Miss Robinson Sr, Miss Robinson Jr, Young Lally, Miss Brett

5644
10 March 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Quin. Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #24 14s.; tickets #78 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: CChacone-Mrs Pelling; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Two Pierrots-Salle, Pelling

5645
22 March 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Roger, the Pierot. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

5646
11 April 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. N.B. Mr Leveridge hopes that his Friends accept of this Invitation, and favour him with their Companies, since a tedious Indisposition hath rendered him incapable of waiting on them in Person. Receipts: money #39 4s.; tickets #87 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fortune Hunters; Or, Two Fools Well Met

Song: Mrs Barbier

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Salle, Pelling; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Les Vandangeurs-Moreau, Mrs Moreau

5647
12 April 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Hill. Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #17 19s. 6d.; tickets #120 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Harlequin-DuPre, Miss LaTour; Les Vandangeurs-Moreau, Mrs Moreau

5648
15 April 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Chambers. Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #65 11s.; tickets #91 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song: Mrs Chambers, Mrs Barbier

Music: TTrumpet Song sounded-L. Granom; Solo on German Flute-M. Granom

Dance: new Scots Dance-Moreau; Two Pierrots-Salle, Pelling

5649
15 April 1729 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

5650
29 April 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda