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13706 results for: Keyword - Ackman</i> (<i>Public Advertiser</i>). This day only. Paid $Mr C. <span class=
We found 9643 matches on Event Comments, 3145 matches on Performance Comments, 1214 matches on Performance Title, 30 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

8201
13 April 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Betterton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. To which will be added Three Designsv, Representing the Three Principal Actions of the Play, in Imitation of so many great Pieces of History Painting, where all the real Persons concern'd in those Actions will be plac'd at proper distances, in different Postures peculiar to the Passion of each Character. In his Apology (I, 117-18) Cibber said that Betterton...when being suddenly seiz'd by the Gout,...submitted, by extraordinary Applications, to have his Foot so far reliev'd that he might be able to walk on the Stage in a Slipper, rather than wholly disappoint his Audience. He was observ'd that Day to have exerted a more than ordinary Spirit, and met with suitable Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maids Tragedy

8202
17 April 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 15 April, a new play, The Force of Friendship, had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

8203
17 May 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Daily Courant, 12 May, but not later, two afterpieces-The Walking Statue and (new) The Twin Venturers-had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caius Marius

8204
30 May 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Being the last time of performing any Opera this Season, the Agreements with the Singers (for this Year) ending this day. [For a full account of this performance, see London in 1710, pp. 17-18.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

8205
21 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: Note, The Subscribers' Tickets will pass this Day. Admission as 7 Aug. At 5 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: Italian Night Scene between Scaramouch, Harlequin, Cooper, and Wife-

8206
11 September 1710 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: Benefit Spillar. Note, The Tickets given out for Monday 4 [for The Confederacy] will be taken this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy Or The Usurer Outwitted

Song: The Whimsical Country-

Dance: The Whimsical Country Wedding-

8207
14 November 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 13 Nov., I Henry IV had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage Or The Innocent Adultery

8208
06 December 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #128 18s. 6d. [According to Deutsch, p. 30, Francesca Vanini-Boschi introduced a Handel aria into this opera on this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

8209
01 February 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [In Daily Courant, 31 Jan., Rule a Wife and Have a Wife had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

8210
24 March 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 23 March, The Recruiting Officer had been advertised for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

8211
03 April 1711 @ Punch's

Event Comment: At 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., by reason of the Children's Playing twice a Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thyrsis Or The Lost Shepherdess

Song:

Dance:

8212
07 May 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: As17110430 but Mrs Day-_.

8213
02 June 1711 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the boxkeepers. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets for Hydaspes taken on this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

8214
30 July 1711 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 26 July, Hamlet had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

8215
19 January 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Susanna Centlivre.] Never Acted before. [In the Preface the author discusses her difficulties with the Epilogue. The managers did not think it safe to speak the Epilogue without a License. As she could not get it approved in time, Norris spoke "six Lines Extempore" asking the audience to excuse the defect and promising one for the second night. The Spectators, convinced no Epilogue was intended, hissed. On the following day the Epilogue was licensed, but Mrs Oldfield, who had been intended to speak it, received letters against it; Norris then spoken an Epilogue which implied that the intended one had never been licensed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perplexd Lovers

8216
22 January 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Note, The Author's Tickets that were given out for Monday will be taken this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perplexd Lovers

8217
19 July 1712 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: The Boxes will be laid open to the Pit for this Day. Tickets 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Loves Of Baldo And Media

Music: Between the Acts: Concertos-

Dance: Four Scaramouches-; Dutch Skipper-; Miller and his Wife-

8218
05 August 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant and Spectator, 2 Aug., The Guardian had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feignd Innocence

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: A Dialogue between a drunken Rake and a Town Miss-Pack, Rainton

Dance: The last new Morrice Dance-Prince, others

8219
10 December 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [By Niccola Haym. Apparently never printed.] Colman's Opera Register: A new Pastorall Opera called Dorinda. The musick of this is taken out of Severall Italian operas by Nico Haym. In this Sigra Margarita had no part. The other Singers the same as in the former [The Faithful Shepherd], the Same Scene & Habits also & the same prices. It was performed 4 times on the opera days successively

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda

8220
24 March 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Colman's Opera Register: March 24 they gave out in ye printed Bills they would revive ye Opera Rinaldo, but by some accident it was put off, & no Opera perform'd this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

8221
06 April 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. Written by Shakespear. N.B. The Tickets delivered out for The Trip to the Jubilee will be taken at this Play. [See Swift's Journal to Stella for the rehearsal of Cato at 10 a.m. on this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

8222
18 December 1714 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Opening night, under the management of John Rich.] By the Company of Comedians under Letters Patents granted by King Charles the Second. Beginning exactly at Six. No Persons are to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn up. Receipts: #143. Weekly Packet, 18 Dec.: This Day the New Play-House...is to be open'd...by the Company that act under the Patent; tho' it is said, that some of the Gentlemen who have left the Theatre in Drury-Lane for that Service, are order'd to return to their Colours, upon Pain of not exercising their Lungs anywhere; which may in Time prove of ill Service to the Patentee; that has been at vast Expence to make his Theatre as convenient for the Reception of an Audience as any one can possibly be

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

8223
12 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Kent. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets for The Adventures of Five Hours taken this day. Receipts: #72 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Music: As17150125

Dance: delaGarde, duPre, Moreau, Bovil, Mrs Bullock

8224
17 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Spiller. Tickets for Philaster taken this day. Receipts: #58 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: As17150512

8225
03 June 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Rawlins and Cook. Tickets for The Amorous Widow taken this Day. Receipts: #66 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Song: Dialogue between a Drunken Smith and his Wife-Cook, Newberry; Trumpet Song-Rawlins never perform'd on that Stage before; Two/Part Song-The Two Boys never perform'd but once before

Dance: As17150512; Also Dutch Skipper-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock