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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.

6551
10 April 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Mills and Wife (Cross). Three rows of the Pit will be laid into Boxes. Tickets and places to be had of Mills at Gardyner's Printing Office, in Russel St., Covent Garden; or of Hobson at the stage door. Servants allowed to keep places on the stage. Last time of acting the opera this season. Receipts: #240 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: I: (By Desire) Savoyards, as17480920; II: Dutch Dance, as17481203

Music: Between Play and Afterpiece: a piece of Music-the Child

6552
12 April 1749 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for LaLauze. Mainpiece: Acted but once this season. Afterpiece: Never performed there before. In it will be introduced the Scene of Harlequin Restored. The Decorations entirely new. N.B. That the entertainment may not be interrupted in the performance, there will be no building on the Stage: And as Mr LaLauze has been at some expence in bringing this Entertainment on the stage, he humbly hopes that the Town will not take it amiss, that nothing under Full Price will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Cast
Role: Monsieur Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips; Spaniard-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Phillips; Pierot-LaLauze.
Cast
Role: Spaniard Actor: Bencraft

Dance: Phillips, J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister, others; particularly (by desire) a Minuet-LaLauze, two of LaLauze's scholars

6553
14 April 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Leviez, Ballet Master. Tickets deliver'd for Romeo and Juliet will be taken. Mr Leviez is oblig'd to change the play on account of Mrs Cibber's illness. Romeo advertis'd but Mrs Cibber's illness chang'd it (Cross). Tickets to be had of Leviez at his house in Great Queen St., and of Hobson at the Stage Door. Receipts: #180 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Nerissa Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens & Ye Scene of Peace

Dance: III: Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; IV: Scotch Dance, as17490118; V: Savoyards, as17480920

6554
15 April 1749 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Copen, Miss Haughton, Mrs Gondou, and Madem Contair. Tickets deliver'd out for the support of the two orphan children of the late Mr Mullart will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: Villeneuve, Madem. Contair, her 1st appearance on the English Stage

6555
25 April 1749 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Collins, Mrs Bambridge, Mrs Cowper, and Miss Ferguson. Tickets deliver'd by Wilder, Mr Line and Widow Powell will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: A Dialogue of Jack and Jenny-Wilder, Miss Falkner

Dance: CComic Dance-J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister

6556
23 August 1749 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

6557
23 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet

Song: IV: Master Mattocks

6558
28 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: It being the first time of Mr Garrick's playing since his Marriage, the Jests in Benedick were receiv'd with uncommon applause: he married Mad. Viollete, on ye 22d of June: 1749 (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: Benedict-Garrick; Don Pedro-Havard; Leonato-Berry; Don John-Winstone; Claudio-Lee; Friar-Bridges; Borachio-Blakes; Dogberry-Taswell; Balthazar (with a Song in Character)-Beard; Verges-Neale; Conrade-Usher; Town Clerk-James; Sexton-Ray; Hero-Mrs Elmy; Margaret-Mrs Havard; Ursula-Miss Cole; Beatrice-Mrs Pritchard; In II a Masquerade Dance-Mathews, Mrs Addison; To conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.
Cast
Role: Benedict Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

6559
03 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

6560
05 October 1749 @ The Tiled Booth Blackheath

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Blackheath. Benefit Mr and Mrs Yeates. To begin at seven

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Amours of Harlequin

Dance: [Entertainments unspecified.

6561
10 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Little French Lawyer

6562
11 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet

6563
19 October 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar, With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Performance Comment: Brutus-Quin; Cassius-Ryan; Caesar-Bridgwater; Caska-Sparks; Trebonius-Anderson; Metellus-Bransby; Decius Brutus-Ridout; Lepidus-Bencraft; Anthony-Delane; Octavius-Gibson; Legarius-Holtham; Cinna-Redman; Pindarus-Oates; Plebeians-Collins, Dunstall, Stoppelaer, Arthur; Calphurnia-Mrs Horton; Portia-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Lepidus Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

6564
02 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

6565
06 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Bennet.

6566
08 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Goneril Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

6567
16 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: Richard-Garrick; King Henry-Berry; Buckingham-Bridges; Richmond-Havard; Stanley-Winstone; Tressel-Blakes; Catseby-Usher; Lt-Ray; King Edward V-Miss Cole; Duke of York-Miss Yates; Dutchess of York-Mrs Bennet; Lady Anne-Mrs Mills; Queen-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Dutchess of York Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

6568
17 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Ben Actor: Yates

Song: Master Mattocks

Ballet: SSavoyard Travellers. As17491110

6569
17 November 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'homme A Bonne Fortune

Afterpiece Title: La Chercheuse D'esprit

6570
20 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Ballet: TThe Savoyard Travellers. As17491110

6571
20 November 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Jeux De L'amour Et Du Hazard

Afterpiece Title: La Coquette sans la Savoir

6572
24 November 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Ryan; Aimwell-Delane; Sullen-Bridgwater; Sir Charles-Anderson; Boniface-Marten; Foigard-Barrington; Gibbet-Bencraft; Scrub-Collins; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Bambridge; Dorinda-Mrs Barrington; Cherry-Miss Hippisley; Gipsey-Miss Young; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Woffington; To Conclude with a Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Gibbet Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Cyclops Actor: Roberts, Smith, Holtham, Bennet, Davis
Role: Hussar Actor: Bencraft

6573
04 December 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

6574
04 December 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Cyclops Actor: Roberts, Smith, Holtham, Bennet, Davis
Role: Hussar Actor: Bencraft

6575
06 December 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet