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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.

7001
23 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

7002
10 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barrington and Mrs Lampe. [Juliet identified by Winston MS 9 from Rich's Register. No Building on Stage. Account Book also identifies Miss Hallam.] Receipts #84 6s. plus tickets: Harrington #66 2s.; Mrs Lampe #38 5s. (Account Book). [The Account Book lists Mr Barrington, not Mrs, and does not specify the distribution of tickets as to box, pit, or gallery.] Charges: #67 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Benvolio Actor: Gibson.
Role: Tibalt Actor: Bennet

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

7003
11 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Abegg, Miss Fielding, Miss Lee. Tickets deliver'd out by Dumai, Dufour, Jarvis, Mrs Crawford, Hitchcock, Miss Brooks, and Miss Davis will be taken. [For tickets see below.] Paid Mr Day for fireworks used in the Rape from 1 March 1759 to 4 April 1761, 56 nights at 3s. per night #8 8s. (Account Book). @Name Box Pit Gallery Value 1!2 Value@Jarvis 11 72 54 #18 19s. #9 9s. 6d.@Dumay 7 40 16 #16 9s. 7d. #4 13s. 6d.@Dufour 14 37 17 #10 15s. #5 7s. 6d.@Mrs Abegg 51 206 77 #51 7s. #25 13s. 6d.@Miss Lee 6 59 67 #17 1s. #8 10s. 6d.@Miss Fielding 41 2 5 #11 1s. #5 10s. 6d.@Miss Brooks 4 34 16 #7 14s. #3 17s.@Mrs Crawford 14 17 28 #8 17s. #4 8s. 6d.@Miss Davis 32 30 33 #15 16s. #7 15s.@Mrs Hitchcock 40 71 18 #22 9s. Gratis@Total 220 568 331 #173 6s. #75 8s. 6d.@ Receipts: #30 18s. plus #75 8s. 6d. the half value of tickets (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: HHornpipe-Mrs Crawford; The Waggoners, as17610228

7004
13 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Kennedy. No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd for Much Ado and The Wonder will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Lady Capulet Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The New Hippocrates

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: King, Blakes, Packer, Mrs Bennett, Mrs Kennedy, Burton.

Entertainment: After:(by Particular Desire) Mimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive

7005
30 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire a Minuet (for the first time)-Noverre, Miss Mowatt. Benefit for Miss Mowatt. Mainpiece: Acted but once these 5 years. No Building on stage. Tickets and places to be had of Miss Mowatt, Upper End of New Bond St., and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

7006
18 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Doorkeepers. Tickets sold at the Door will not be admitted. Benefit for Mr Dickinson, (First Gallery office keeper)

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Song: Champnes

7007
23 June 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. By Particular Desire. Tickets delivered for the Busy Body will be taken. [Account Book indicates Receipts: #26 1s. 6d. plus #53 14s. from tickets: (Box 61; Pit 165; Gallery 137). A staff of 22 servants, plus the women dressers and charwomen were paid #3 13s. 2d. for operating the theatre this night. The deficit carried into the summer after this night was #216 19s. 10d. This deficit plus summer expenses produced an encumbrance of #359 12s. 9d. to be met at the start of the 1761-62 season. Rich upon ten occasions withdrew under Account I from the treasury #2743. From this account he put back into the treasury upon three occasions (May 8, 31; June 23) #600. So over and above the #6 which the Rich family received daily in Account 76, Rich tucked away #2143 in Account I. In addition his carpentry bills to Mr Gom for work at Cowley were paid from theatrical funds. His cut from Account 76 at #5 per night was #810. So apparently Rich cleared #2953 this season despite the fact that it ran only 162 nights, and that George II's death occurred in a money-making part of the season.] Charges: #42 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Song: Between Acts: a Gentleman (who never appeared upon any Stage before)

Dance: HHornpipe-Mrs Blake(, from the theatre in Dublin)

7008
07 September 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Beard; Peachum-Collins; Lockit-Dunstall; Filch-Holtom; Mat@o@Mint-Baker; Player-Hull; Beggar-Bennet; Lucy-Mrs Vernon; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Stephens; Diana Trapes-Mrs Copin; Polly-Miss Brent; With a Hornpipe-Mrs Vernon; Country Dance-the characters in the Opera.
Cast
Role: Beggar Actor: Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd

7009
12 September 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

7010
25 September 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Ross; Capulet-Sparks; Montague-Redman; Paris-Perry; Fryar Lawrence-Hull; Mercutio-Dyer; Tibalt-Bennet; Benvolio-Gibson; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Juliet-Mrs Bellamy, first appearance here in 2 years; Minuet-Sg Maranesi, Sga Maranesi; Masquerade Dance-proper to the play; An Additional Scene will be introduc'd, representing The Funeral Procession of Juliet, which will be accompanied by a Solemn Dirge Vocal parts-Beard, Miss Brent, Mrs Vernon, Mattocks, Legg, Baker, Roberts, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Abegg, Miss Young.
Cast
Role: Tibalt Actor: Bennet
Role: Benvolio Actor: Gibson

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

7011
29 September 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

7012
03 October 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: TThe Pedlar Trick'd, as17611001

7013
09 October 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: TThe Pedlar Trick'd, as17611001

7014
28 October 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Tibalt Actor: Bennet
Role: Benvolio Actor: Gibson

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Cast
Role: Pantaloon Actor: Bencraft
Related Works
Related Work: Bartholomew Fair Author(s): Ben Jonson
Related Work: Love and Money; or, The Fair Caledonian Author(s): Robert Benson

7015
04 November 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Cast
Role: Pantaloon Actor: Bencraft
Related Works
Related Work: Bartholomew Fair Author(s): Ben Jonson
Related Work: Love and Money; or, The Fair Caledonian Author(s): Robert Benson

7016
26 November 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Cast
Role: Burgundy Actor: Bennet.

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

7017
10 December 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Sg Maranesi, Miss Wilford, Miss Valois; and a New Comic Pantomime Ballet, call'd The French Country Gentleman or the Female Metamorphoses-Sodi, Sga Manesiere (Being her first appearance on the English stage), Miss Wilford

7018
28 December 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: Richard-Smith; King Henry-Gibson; Norfolk-Perry; Stanley-Anderson; Lieut.-R. Smith; Ratcliffe-Bennet; Catesby-Holtom; Lord Mayor-Marten; Oxford-Weller; Richmond-Clarke; Buckingham-Sparks; Tressel-Dyer; Prince Edward-Miss Mullart; Duke of York-Miss Valois; Lady Anne-Mrs Vincent; Duchess of York-Mrs Elmy; Queen-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Ratcliffe Actor: Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

7019
03 March 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Music: As17620226; Handel's Coronation Anthem-

7020
19 March 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semele

Music: As17620226

7021
22 March 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets and Places to be had of Smith, at his house, opposite the concert room in Dean Street, Soho, and of Mr Sarjant at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes, where servants will be allowed to keep places. N.B. No building on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Petruchio-Shuter; Grumio-Costollo; Biondello-Bennet; Bianca-Mrs Stephens; Catherine-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Biondello Actor: Bennet

Entertainment: fter the Masque will be presented the Humours of the Age-in imitation of Shakespeare's STAGES by Smith

7022
02 April 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Composer [Dr Arne]. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Boxes (by desire) Half a Guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. Tickets to be had of Dr Arne, in the Piazza, next the Church, in Covent Garden. Places to be taken of Mr Johnston at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judith