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6281 results for: Keyword - Mr Bensley
We found 4275 matches on Event Comments, 1844 matches on Performance Comments, 528 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

176
13 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Mainpiece: A Tragedy (Written by Voltaire) and translated by [Dr Thomas Francklin] the Author of The Earl of Warwick. Pit and Boxes will be laid together. Ladies are desired to send their servants by 4 o'clock. Mrs Yates will be particularly oblig'd to those Ladies, and Gentlemen, who have seats in the Pit, if they will be co kind as to come as early as possible to prevent confusion in getting their places. [Genest V, 242, conjectures the following assignment of parts: Orestes-Smith; Aegisthus-Bensley; Pammenes-Clarke; Pylades-Perry; Electra-Mrs Yates; Clytemnestra-Mrs Ward; Iphisa-Mrs Bulkley.] Charges #65 7s. 6d. Balance to Mrs Yates #39 1s. plus #180 10s. from 722 Box tickets (Account Book). Total House value #284 18s. 6d. Receipts: #104 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orestes

Performance Comment: Characters-Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Perry, Mrs Ward, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates; With a New Epilogue-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Perry, Mrs Ward, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Garland, as17681028

177
09 April 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: Alexander-Smith; Clytus-Bensley; Cassander-Clarke; Hephestion-Wroughton; Lysimachus-Hull; Polyperchon-Perry; Roxana-Miss Miller, first time; Sysigambis-Mrs Vincent; Parisatis-Miss Pearce; Statira-Mrs Yates (that night only); With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander-into Babylon.
Cast
Role: Clytus Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: IV: The Old ground Young, as17701123

178
21 November 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Dramatic Poem, Never Performed [written on the model of a Greek Tragedy by William Mason]. The Overture and all the Music entirely New Composed by Dr Arne. With New Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations (playbill). Altered by Colman to Mason's distress. (Biographia Dramatica). Books of the Chorus to be had at the Theatre. Rec'd from Bensley on account of Cash advanc'd last season #100 (Account Book). Receipts: #201 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Performance Comment: Athelwold-Smith; Edgar-Bensley; Orgar-Clarke; Edwin-Hull; Albina-Mrs Mattocks; Elfrida-Mrs Hartley; Chorus of British Virgins-Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Baker, Miss Twist, Miss Brown, Miss Valois, Miss Wewitzer, Miss Catley, others.
Cast
Role: Edgar Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: End: The Recruits, as17721117

179
17 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Henry II oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Clarke's Illness. [Bensley took his part in Alexander the Great.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: As17741010, but Clytus-Bensley.
Cast
Role: Clytus Actor: Bensley.

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

180
04 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Henderson as Evander, but "on account of the sudden indisposition of Henderson . . . Bensley kindly undertook the part of Evander" (Morning Post, 5 Nov.).] Paid Mullins, shoemaker, in full for the 3 last Seasons #108 0s. 6d. Receipts: #269 12s. (262/3/6; 7/8/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performance Comment: As17851031, but Evander-Bensley [of DL] .of DL] .
Cast
Role: Evander Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Midas

181
23 June 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 2nd piece: The Characters will be dressed in the Habits of the Times. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "The Eustache de St. Pierre of Bensley was his Chef d'oeuvre: it suited the sourness of his aspect, his nasal intonation, and the general bluntness of his manner" (Monthly Mirror, 1796, p. 185)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: The Surrender of Calais

Performance Comment: King Edward-Williamson; Harcourt-Bland; Sir Walter Manny-Usher; John de Vienne-Aickin; Ribeaumont-Palmer; Eustache de St. Pierre-Bensley; Officer-Palmer Jun.; John D'Aire-Evatt; Citizens-Johnson, Farley, Wewitzer, Barrett, Abbott; O'Carrol-Johnstone; La Gloire-Bannister Jun.; Crier-Cubitt; Carpenters-Parsons, Burton; Serjeant-Wilson; Queen-Mrs Goodall; Julia-Mrs Whitlock (1st appearance in that character); Madelon-Mrs Bland; Vocal Parts-Kenrick, Willoughby, Linton, Dorion Jun., Aylmer, Little, Brown, Lyons, Mrs Taylor, Miss Fontenelle, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Powell, Miss Hale, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Masters, Mrs Bramwell.
Cast
Role: Pierre Actor: Bensley

182
04 October 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [For the naming of the characters in mainpiece, as they were called originally, see 23 Feb. 1792.] Powell, 3 Oct.: Siege of Belgrade rehearsed at 10; Douglas at 12 (for Bensley). Receipts: #414 18s. 6d. (325.11.6; 87.6.6; 2.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performance Comment: Lord Randolph-Aickin; Glenalvon-Palmer; Norval-Kemble; Stranger-Bensley; Donald-Phillimore; Officer-Caulfield; Servant-Maddocks; Prisoner-Webb; Matilda-Mrs Siddons (1st appearance this season); Anna-Miss Collins.
Cast
Role: Stranger Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

183
16 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Title Unknown

184
15 February 1675 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calisto; Or, The Chaste Nimph

Afterpiece Title: Calisto's Additional performers

185
15 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

186
14 November 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

187
November 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

188
December 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles; Or, Iphigenia In Aulis

189
January 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage-hater Matched

190
04 July 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Citizen Turned Gentleman

191
19 January 1683 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politiques

192
November 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deceiver Deceived

193
28 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

194
September 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Imposture Defeated; Or, A Trick To Cheat The Devil

195
09 July 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Courtship A La Mode

196
12 February 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Music: A piece of Instrumental Musick- to be perform'd on the Stage

Song: Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs; particularly a Two/part Song-Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs compos'd by the late Mr Henry Purcell

Song: Country Farmer's Daughter, Highland Lilt-the Devonshire Girl; The Whip of Dunbyn-Claxton; a new Entry-Mrs Campion, others; A Scotch Dance-Mrs Bicknell; a new Scaramouch Man and Scaramouch Woman-Laferry, Mrs Lucas

197
26 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Entertainment: Young Gentlewoman, as17100817; Likewise a Vaulting the Managed Horse-famous Master who never appear'd on the Publick Stage

Dance: Ladder Dance-; French Peasant-; Wooden Shoe-; Harlequin Scaramouch Cooper and Wife-

198
21 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

199
12 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: IV: A Dutch Dance-Master Settree, Master Blagdon, Miss Blagdon

200
14 January 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Horn sweet are the Woodlands by Forrest and Groves. imitations. End of mainpiece, Vocal and Rhetorical, by the Gentleman who performs Beau Clincher