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6025 results for: Keyword - Mr Bencraft
We found 4254 matches on Event Comments, 1564 matches on Performance Comments, 544 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

901
03 October 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne or The Burgomaster Trickd

Performance Comment: Apollo-Glover; Nymphs-Miss Oates, Miss Rogers, Mrs LeBrun, Mlle Ozanne; Daphne-Mlle Anne Roland; Huntsmen-Leveridge, Villeneuve, Desse, Richardson, Delegard, L'Estrade; Burgomaster-Laguerre; Boor Servant-Hippisley; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Scaramouch-Bencraft; Harlequin-Phillips; Peasants-Bencraft, Delegard, Dupre, Mrs Horsington, Miss Dancey, Mrs Villeneuve; Bacchus-Salway; Venus-Mrs Wright; Diana-Mrs Chambers; Silenus-Leveridge; Pan-Roberts; Zephyrus-Glover; Spaniard-Richardson; Polonese-Delegarde; Frenchman-Desse; Spanish Woman-Miss Rogers; Polonese Woman-Mrs LeBrun; French Woman-Miss Oates; Flora-Mlle Anne Roland.
Cast
Role: Scaramouch Actor: Bencraft
Role: Peasants Actor: Bencraft, Delegard, Dupre, Mrs Horsington, Miss Dancey, Mrs Villeneuve

902
10 October 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Cibber; Johnson-Ryan; Smith-Delane; other parts-Hippisley, Bridgwater, Rosco, Hale, Hallam, Stephens, Roberts, Arthur, James, Neale, Mullart, Bencraft, Mrs Cross, Miss Burgess, Miss Norman; The Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Legar, Salway, Bencraft, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young.*d1739 10 10 cg Poitier, Mlle Roland.*c1739 10 10 cg Written by George, Duke of Buckingham. With all the Music, Songs, Dances, Scenes, Machines, Habits, and other Decorations proper to the Play.
Cast
Role: other parts Actor: Hippisley, Bridgwater, Rosco, Hale, Hallam, Stephens, Roberts, Arthur, James, Neale, Mullart, Bencraft, Mrs Cross, Miss Burgess, Miss Norman
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Leveridge, Legar, Salway, Bencraft, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young.d1739 10 10 cg Poitier, Mlle Roland.c1739 10 10 cg Written by George, Duke of Buckingham. With all the Music, Songs, Dances, Scenes, Machines, Habits, and other Decorations proper to the Play.

903
16 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bencraft. [Charges #60?] Balance to Bencraft #15 12s. plus #48 from tickets. Advanced to Servandoni another #5 5s. Receipts: #85 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: 1st Murderer Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Hussar Actor: Bencraft

904
09 September 1730 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generous Free mason Or The Constant Lady

Performance Comment: Squire Noodle-Berry; King of Tunis-Fielding; Mirza-Paget; Sebastian-Oates; Clerimont-Woodward; Sir Jasper-Burnett; Doodle-Young Bencraft; Davy-Excell; Queen-Mrs Kilby; Maria-Miss Oates; Caelia-Mrs Grace; Jacinta-Miss Williams; Jenny-Mrs Stevens; Lettice-Mrs Roberts.
Cast
Role: Doodle Actor: Young Bencraft

Dance: Smith, Young Clark, Miss Williams; particularly French Peasant, Black Joke-

905
23 August 1733 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore With The Comical And Diverting Humours Of Sir Anthony Noodle And His Man Weazle

Performance Comment: Sir Anthony-Miller;Weazle-Norris; King Edward IV-Ridout; Gloucester-Winstone; Sir Robert Brockenbury-Turbutt; Jane Shore-Miss Oates; Flora-Mrs Clarke; Mrs Blake-Mrs Bennet; Shore-Wm. Mills; Captain Aires-Bardin; Dick Dreary-Bencraft; Tom Padwell-Clarke; Gibbet-Excell; Forgewell-Tenoe; Timothy Stampwell-Oates; Blunderbuss-Chapman.
Cast
Role: Dick Dreary Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: The Gardens of Venus or The Truimphs of Love

Performance Comment: Cupid-Young Cunningham; Venus-Miss Price; Deities of Pleasure-Vallois, Davenport; Followers of Cupid-E. Roberts, Excell; Graces: Aglaia-Mrs Vallois; Euphrosyne-Mrs Chapman; Thalia-Mrs Bennet; Shepherds-Clark, Bencraft, Olbeldiston; Rival Swains-Jones, Jano.
Cast
Role: Shepherds Actor: Clark, Bencraft, Olbeldiston

Dance: I: La Brone and La Blonde-Vallois and Mlle Vallois; II: Hornpipe-Jones Sr, Jones Jr

906
24 August 1734 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John Or The Libertine Destroyd

Afterpiece Title: The Barren Island or Petticoat Government

Dance: French Peasant by Vallois and Miss Rogers. A new Pantomime Dance: The Force of Inclination: Sailors-Vallois, Clark, Woodward, Bencraft, Smith; Amazonians-Miss Rogers, Miss Mann, Mrs Vallois, Miss Tollett, Miss Norman

Performance Comment: A new Pantomime Dance: The Force of Inclination: Sailors-Vallois, Clark, Woodward, Bencraft, Smith; Amazonians-Miss Rogers, Miss Mann, Mrs Vallois, Miss Tollett, Miss Norman .
Cast
Role: : Sailors Actor: Vallois, Clark, Woodward, Bencraft, Smith

907
02 September 1734 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John

Afterpiece Title: The Barren Island

Afterpiece Title: The Farrier Nickd or The Exalted Cuckold

Performance Comment: Mercury-Laguerre; Farrier-Vaughan; his Man-Penkethman; Scaramouch-Bencraft; Harlequin-Clark; Colombine-Miss Mann; Farrier's Wife-Mrs Mullart; Alewife-Hall .
Cast
Role: Scaramouch Actor: Bencraft

Dance: The Force of Inclination

908
01 October 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote In England

Performance Comment: Don Quixote-Roberts; Sancho Panza-Mullart; Badger-Morgan; Fairlove-Aston; Mayor-Lacy; John-Bencraft; Dorothea-Mrs Mullart; Jezebel-Mrs Steel; Mrs Guzzle-Mrs Egerton; Mrs Sneak-Miss Jones Sr; Miss Sneak-Miss Jones Jr .
Cast
Role: John Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance:

Song: Songs proper to the Play. The Pleasant Month of May by a Gentlewoman, who never appeared on any stage before

909
30 December 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine With the Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Ceres-Mrs Wright; Proserpine-Miss Hillyard; Jupiter-Stoppelaer; Mercury-Vincent; Sylvans-Miss Rogers, Mlle De L'Orme, Mrs Ogden, Miss Baston, Mlle Villepierre; Pluto-Leveridge; Demons-Lally, S. Lally, Le Sac, De la Garde, Duke; Yeoman-Boval; Clodpole-Hippisley; Harlequin-Lun; Old Man-Smith; Colombine-Mlle Quinault, the first time of her appearance on this stage; Countrymen and Lasses-Du Pre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette; Savoyard-Mullart; Gardeners-Smith, De la Garde; Elements: Earth-S. Lally; Air-Glover; Fire-Le Sac; Water-Lally; Females-Miss Baston, Miss Rogers, Mrs Ogden, Mrs De L'Orme .
Cast
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Du Pre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

910
08 February 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17350103, but Yeoman-Bencraft .
Cast
Role: Yeoman Actor: Bencraft
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Du Pre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

911
13 October 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Momus Turned Fabulist or Vulcans Wedding

Performance Comment: Momus (Merry Andrew)-Mullart; Jupiter (A Rake)-Bridgwater; Neptune (Waterman)-Aston; Apollo (Ballad Singer)-Stoppelaer; Mars (Sergeant of Grenadiers)-Walker; Plutus (Pawnbroker)-Hippisley; Vulcan (Blacksmith)-M. Stoppelaer; Mercury (Ticket Porter)-Clarke; Minister of Destiny (Hangman)-Bencraft; Juno (Oyster Woman)-Mrs Mullart; Venus (Lady of Pleasure)-Miss Norsa; Aegle (Parish Girl)-Miss Rogers .
Cast
Role: Minister of Destiny Actor: Bencraft

Dance: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme

912
06 November 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud If She Coud

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine With the Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Ceres-Mrs Wright; Proserpine-Miss Hillyard; Jupiter-Stoppelaer; Mercury-Vincent; Sylvans-Miss Rogers, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Ogden, Miss Sandham, Miss Norman; Pluto-Leveridge; Demons-Lally, Tench, Desse, Livier, Richardson; Yeoman-Nivelon; Clodpole-Hippisley; Harlequin-Lun; Old Man-Smith; Colombine-Mlle Quinault; Countrymen and Lasses-Delagarde, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette; Savoyard-Thompson; Gardeners-Smith and Delagarde; Elements: Earth-Desse; Air-Glover; Fire-Tench; Water-Lally; Females-Miss Sandham, Miss Rogers, Mrs Ogden, Mlle Delorme .
Cast
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Delagarde, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

913
09 January 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Performance Comment: As17351231, but Cabinet-Ridout; Swagger-Mullart; Bumpkin-Hallam; Puzzle-Paget; Tatter-Bencraft; Rag-James; Mrs Farthingale-Neale; Kate Matchlock-M. Stoppelaer .
Cast
Role: Tatter Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: I: Clown by Nivelon. II: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. III: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, Tench, Livier, Desse, Dupre, Mrs Ogden, Mlle Delorme, Miss Sandham, Miss Norman. IV: Harlequin by Mlle De L'Isle. V: Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme

914
23 January 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace or Merlins Cave With Jupiter and Europa

Performance Comment: Endymion (as Royal Chasseur)-Beard; Chasseurs-Vincent, Roberts; Nymphs of Chace-Miss Brunette, Miss Male; Diana (Royal Huntress)-Miss Hillyard; Merlin-Leveridge; Aerial Spirits: Cupid-Glover; Graces-Miss Norman, Miss Sandham, Mlle Delorme; Hour-Mrs Ogden; Zephyrs-Tench, Desse, Livier, Delagarde; Psyche-Miss Rogers; Rural Swain and Nymph-Lally, Mlle D'Hervigni; Jupiter (Harlequin)-Lun; Mercury-Stoppelaer; Pluto (Punch)-Delagarde; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouch)-Richardson; Hercules (Brighella)-Desse; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Glover; Mars (Leander)-Tench; Europa-Miss Rogers; Doctor-Nivelon; Doctor's Wife-Mrs Stevens; Doctor's Servant-Lalauze; Country Lads-Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson; Country Lasses-Mrs Kilby, Mrs Forrester, Miss Ambrose .
Cast
Role: Country Lads Actor: Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson

Entertainment: [Words by Phillips.] The Characters New Drest. With New Scenes, representing the exact Views of the Hermitage, and Merlin's Cave, as taken in the Royal Gardens of Richmond. Receipts: #185 4s. 6d

915
27 March 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abra Mule Or Love And Empire

Afterpiece Title: A City Ramble or The Humours of the Compter

Performance Comment: In which will be introduced the Song ofJoan and her Maid to the Compter were sent. Hardhead-Hippisley; Sir Humphrey-Mullart; Ezekiel Prim-Bridgwater; Abraham-Paget; Gentlemen-Ridout, A. Ryan; Constables-M. Stoppelaer, Boaman; Mordecai-James; Watchmen-Houghton, Littleton; Rachel-Mrs Mullart; Women-Bencraft, Smith, Mrs Browne; Newswoman-W. Hallam; Toby Twang-Chapman; Strip-Clarke; Skin'em-Todd; Bounce-Jones .
Cast
Role: Women Actor: Bencraft, Smith, Mrs Browne

Music: Handel's Water Musick

Dance: Clown by Nivelon. French Peasants by Lalauze and Mlle D'Hervigni. Sailors (from Orestes), as17360302

Song: A Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts

916
02 April 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Walker; Aboan-Stephens; Daniel-Hippisley; Governor-Paget; Blandford-Chapman; Stanmore-Aston; Driver-Mullart; Jack Stanmore-Houghton; Hotman-Bencraft; Imoinda-Miss Bincks; Widow Lackit-Mrs Mullart; Charlotte-Mrs Kilby; Lucy-Miss Horsington .
Cast
Role: Hotman Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Song: English Roast Beef by Leveridge. Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts

917
06 April 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Performance Comment: Young Mirabel-A. Hallam; Old Mirabel-Bridgwater; Duretete-Chapman; Dugard-Marshall; Petit-James; Bravos-Mullart, M. Stoppelaer, Smith, Bencraft; Oriana-Mrs Buchanan; Bisarre-Mrs Horton; Lamorce-Mrs Kilby .
Cast
Role: Bravos Actor: Mullart, M. Stoppelaer, Smith, Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. French Peasants by Lalauze and Mlle D'Hervigni. Shepherd and Shepherdess by Glover and Miss Rogers

918
01 July 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Le Sac; Doctor-Ray; Pierrot-Bencraft; Dropsical Servant-Aston; Doctor's Servant-Dove; Maid-Miss Jones; Colombine-Mrs Woodward .
Cast
Role: Pierrot Actor: Bencraft

919
23 August 1736 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fair Rosamond Representing Her Amours With King Henry And Her Being Poisoned By Queen Eleanor In Woodstock Bower

Performance Comment: King Henry-Boman; Fair Rosamond-Mrs Bambridge; Cardinal Aquinas-Wallis; Cardinal Columbus-Bambridge; Sir Trusty-Clark; Lord Sands-Bencraft; Cupid-Master Brown; Cleora-Mrs Brown; Queen Eleanor-Mrs Mullart .
Cast
Role: Lord Sands Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: The Modern Pimp or The Doctor Deceivd With the Comical Humours of Crack the Pimp Dr Grey Goose and Sir Nehemiah Nestle Cock

Dance: I: Two Pierrots by Livier and Mlle Delorme. II: Wooden Shoe Dance by Livier and Janno. End of Afterpiece: Grand Peasant Dance by Livier, Janno, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Woodward

920
29 September 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode

Performance Comment: Lady Brumpton-Mrs Horton; Hardy-Delane; Brumpton-Aston; Campley-A. Hallam; Lady Harriet-Mrs Bellamy; Lady Charlotte-Mrs Buchanan; Trusty-Bridgwater; Sable-Hippisley; Mlle D'Epingle-Mrs Mullart; Tattleaid-Mrs Stevens; Puzzle-Paget; Cabinet-Ridout; Swagger-Mullart; Bumpkin-Hallam; Tattle-Bencraft; Rag-James; Mrs Farthingale-Neale; Kate-M. Stoppelaer; Trim-Chapman.
Cast
Role: Tattle Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: CClown-Nivelon; Scot's Dance-Glover, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme

921
08 October 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine With the Birth and adventures of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Ceres-Mrs Wright; Proserpine-Miss Hillyard; Jupiter-Roberts; Mercury-Laguerre; Sylvans-Mrs Laguerre, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Ogden, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun; Pluto-Leveridge; Yeoman-Nivelon; Clodpole-Hippisley; Harlequin-Lun; Old Man-Smith; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Countrymen and Lasses-Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette; Sayoryard-Thompson; Gardeners-Smith, Dupre; Earth-Richardson; Air-Glover; Fire-Tench; Water-Desse; Females-Mrs Moreau, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Ogden, Mlle Delorme.
Cast
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Bencraft, Ferguson, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette

922
14 February 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace or Merlins Cave

Performance Comment: Endymion-Beard; Chasseurs-Salway, Roberts; Nymphs of Chace-Miss Brunette, Miss Rogers; Diana-Miss Hillyard; Merlin-Leveridge; Aerial Sprites: Cupid-Glover; Graces-Mrs Moreau, Miss Norman, Mlle Delorme; Hour-Mrs Ogden; Zephyrs-Tench, Desse, Davenport, Baudouin; Psyche-Mrs Laguerre; Harlequin-Lun; Pluto (Punch)-Baudouin; Neptune (Pantaloon)-DuPre; Pan (Scaramouch)-Richardson; Hercules (Brighella)-Davenport; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Glover; Mars (Leander)-Tench; Mercury-Laguerre; Country Lads-DuPre, Bencraft, Baudouin; Country Lasses-Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Dancey; Doctor-Nivelon; Doctor's Wife-Mrs Stevens; Doctor's Servant-Lalauze.
Cast
Role: Country Lads Actor: DuPre, Bencraft, Baudouin

923
26 July 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain

Performance Comment: Woman Captain-Mrs Stevens; Sir Humphrey Scattergood-Salway; Bellamy-Ridout; Wildman-Stevens; Sir Christopher Swas -Mullart; Blunderbuss-Penkethman; Hildebrand-Bencraft; Sir NicholasPeakgoose-Yates; Serjeant-Rosco; Gripe-Lyon; Richard-James; Phillis-Mrs Hamilton; Chloris-Miss Horsington; Caelia-Miss Brunette.
Cast
Role: Hildebrand Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: TThe Ladies' Lamentation, as17370414 A Dialogue set by Henry Purcell-the Masters Hamilton

Dance: JJe ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

924
30 September 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode

Performance Comment: Lady Brumpton-Mrs Horton; Hardy-Delane; Brumpton-Aston; Campley-A. Hallam; Lady Harriet-Miss Binks; Lady Charlotte-Mrs Stevens; Puzzle-Rosco; Trusty-Bridgwater; Sable-Lyon; Caninet-Ridout; Swagger-Mullart; Bumpkin-Hallam; Tatter-Bencraft; Tom-James; Mrs Farthingale-Neale; Kate Matchlock-Stoppelaer; Mlle D'epingle-Mrs Moreau; Tattleaid-Martin; Trim-Chapman.
Cast
Role: Tatter Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Song: Roberts

Dance: Richardson, Mrs Cantrell

925
25 January 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nest Of Plays Three New Comedies Of One Act Each

Afterpiece Title: The Prodigal Reformd

Performance Comment: Old Severn-Rosco; Trueman-Bridgwater; Severn-A. Hallam; Sunflower-Bencraft; Locust-Ridout; Froth-Neale; Tatterdemalion-Chapman; Johnson-Arthur; Lady Turtle-Mrs Bellamy; Lady Basset-Mrs Ware; Miss Siren-Miss Brunette.
Cast
Role: Sunflower Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: The Happy Constancy

Afterpiece Title: The Tryal of Conjugal Love

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Glover, Mlle Roland; Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates