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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.

8951
11 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The new Piece of A Day in Rome [advertised on playbill of 10 May] is obliged to be withdrawn till next season [see 11 Oct. 1798], on account of Fawcett's illness. [3rd piece in place of Botheration, advertised as above.] Receipts: #59 0s. 6d. (36.15.0; 22.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: England Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: In 3rd piece: Ballet, as17971013

Entertainment: Monologue. End 1st piece: An Address to the Audience, as17980209

8952
28 September 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mrs Johnson was from the Park Theatre NewYork.] Afterpiece: Compressed into Two Acts. "Munden's Sir Francis Wronghead was a very pleasing display of comicality; but he should have contented himself with what was set down by the author, without introducing his own common place allusions to the fashions of the present day" (Morning Herald, 29 Sept.). Receipts: #200 17s. 6d. (195.19.6; 4.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: Lord Townly-Pope; Manley-Murray; Sir Francis Wronghead-Munden; Count Basset-Clarke; Squire Richard-Knight; John Moody-Thompson; James-Abbot; Constable-Whitmore; Poundage-Rees; Lady Grace-Miss Chapman; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Davenport; Miss Jenny-Mrs Gibbs; Mytrilla-Mrs Watts; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Platt; Trusty-Mrs Litchfield; Lady Townly-Mrs Johnson (from the Theatre in America; 1st appearance on this stage). 1st appearance on this stage).

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

8953
25 October 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; M. INT 1, by Thomas John Dibdin. Prologue by Richard Cumberland (see text)]: The Overture and Music composed by Attwood, with some favorite Selections from the Works of Dibdin and Mazzinghi. Books of the Songs, including a descriptive Sketch of the Ballet, to be had at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 5 Nov. 1798: This Day is published The Mouth of the Nile (1s.). Receipts: #309 3s. 6d. (303.0.6; 6.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

8954
15 December 1798 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Medonte announced, but Morning Chronicle, 17 Dec.: By the sudden indisposition of Madame Banti, there was no opera on Saturday night. Ibid, 18 Dec.: Bills were posted up all over London in the forenoon, and a respectful card sent to the house of each subscriber. Morning Herald, 18 Dec., carries a statement signed by Pere Elisee saying that "about two o'clock, Saturday morning last, I was called out of my bed by a message that Mrs Banti was taken dangerously ill," that she so continues, and that as her physician he is "of opinion it will not be safe for her to quit her sick bed for several days yet to come.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

8955
19 January 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MD 2, by George Colman, ynger]: With new Musick, Scenery, Machinery, Dresses and Decorations. The Musick entirely new, composed by Kelly with an overture by Dussek]. The Scenes designed and executed by Greenwood? Jun, with the assistance of Chalmers and Banks. The Machinery, Decorations and Dresses designed and under the direction of Johnston, and executed by him, Underwood and Gay. The Female Dresses designed and executed by Miss Rein. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "We have to congratulate the town on the acquisition of three admirable dramatic writers, in the persons of Johnston, Greenwood, and Miss Rein, who have here exhibited a specimen of the Sublime and Beautiful which it will be difficult, indedd, to surpass" (Monthly Mirror, Jan. 1799, p. 47). [This piece is "an exhibition of music and dialogue, pantomime and dancing, painting and machinery, antique dresses and armour, thunder and lightning, fire and water, illumination, processions, banquets, battles, sieges, explosions, and everything that can surprize, enchant or terrify the spectators" (Morning Chronicle, 21 Jan.). Morning Chronicle, 16 Feb. 1799: This Day is published Feudal Times (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #483 15s. 6d. (381.10.6; 100.6.6; 1.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times or The Banquet Gallery

8956
22 February 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea Grand Selection 0

Music: End I: Ode on St. Cecilia's Day-[(never before performed text by the Rev. Samuel Wesley]), set to music by Samuel Wesley; Introductory to the Ode: [Handel's 3rd organ concerto-Samuel Wesley

Performance Comment: Cecilia's Day-[(never before performed text by the Rev. Samuel Wesley]), set to music by Samuel Wesley; Introductory to the Ode: [Handel's 3rd organ concerto-Samuel Wesley.
Cast
Role: ecilia's Day Actor:

8957
30 November 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; D 5, by Elizabeth Inchbald, based on Das Schreibepult; oder, Die Gefahren der Jugend, by August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue. Prologue by Charles Moore (MS annotation by J. P. Kemble in Kemble-Devonshire copy in Huntington Library); Epilogue by John Taylor (see text)]: With New Dresses and Scenes. Morning Chronicle, 17 Dec. 1799: This day is published The Wise Man of the East (price not listed). Receipts: #323 14s. 6d. (321.12.6; 2.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wise Man Of The East

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Munden, Knight, H. Johnston, Murray, Davenport, Waddy, Thompson, Claremont, Simmons, Atkins, Abbot, Klanert, Curties, Mrs H. Johnston, Miss Murray, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Johnston, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Mattocks, [Cast from text (G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799): Claransforth-Lewis; Ava Thoanoa-Munden; Timothy Starch-Knight; Ensign Metland-Murray; Bankwell-Davenport; Lawley-Waddy; Sir Richard Chances-Claremont; Quaker Servant-Simmons; Servant to Ava-Abbot; Waitby-Klanert; Servant to Lady Mary-Curties; Ruth Starch-Mrs H. Johnston; Ellen Metland-Miss Murray; Lady Mary Diamond-Mrs Davenport; Mrs Metland-Mrs Johnson; Rachel Starch-Mrs Mattocks; unassigned-Thompson, Atkins, Mrs Whitmore; Prologue-H. Johnston; Epilogue-Mrs H. Johnston. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 11 performances only (see17991228).]These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 11 performances only (see17991228).]

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

8958
29 March 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325 .

8959
31 March 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Management

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325 .

Music: Afterpiece: The Harp-Weippert. [This was included in all subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [This was included in all subsequent performances.]

8960
01 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325 .

8961
03 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325 .

8962
14 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325but Welsh Men & Women-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Hermione

8963
16 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325 .

8964
18 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325 .

8965
21 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325 .

8966
17 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Afterpiece Title: Marian

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival

Cast
Role: Justice Day Actor: Davenport
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Davenport.

Song: End II 1st piece: a Musical Address Mark when beneath the western main (Dramatic Censor, II, 197), Written expressly for the occasion by T. Dutton, A. M., and composed by Mazzinghi-Miss Waters; End III: O Strike the Harp-Incledon, Linton, Miss Waters; accompanied on the Harp-Weippert; End IV: Happy were the Days-Miss Waters; End 1st piece: Sigh no more Ladies-Incledon, Townsend, Linton, Master Slape, Miss Waters

Performance Comment: Dutton=, A. M., and composed by Mazzinghi-Miss Waters; End III: O Strike the Harp-Incledon, Linton, Miss Waters; accompanied on the Harp-Weippert; End IV: Happy were the Days-Miss Waters; End 1st piece: Sigh no more Ladies-Incledon, Townsend, Linton, Master Slape, Miss Waters.
Cast
Role: Happy were the Days Actor: Miss Waters

8967
14 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Joseph George Holman]: The Overture and the whold of the Musick by Davy. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Miss Wheatley was from cg.] Morning Chronicle, 20 Aug. 1800: This day at twelve o'clock is published What a Blunder! (2s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: What A Blunder

Performance Comment: Characters by Fawcett, Johnstone, Holman (1st appearance here this season), Suett, Farley, Emery, Caulfield, J. Palmer, Atkins, Abbot, Chippendale, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Mountain, Miss Wheatley (1st appearance on this stage), Miss Menage. Cast from text (W. Miller, 1800): Dashington-Fawcett; Sir Sturdy O'Tremor-Johnstone; Count Alphonso d'Esparza-Holman; Don Miguel de Lara-Suett; Lopez-Farley; Juan-Emery; Robbers-Caulfield, J. Palmer; Diego-Atkins; Friar-Abbot; Patrick-Chippendale; Captain of the Banditti-Sawyer; Angelina-Miss DeCamp; Leonora-Mrs Mountain; Jaquelina-Miss Wheatley; Viletta-Miss Menage; Chorusses-Willoughby, Aylmer, Dibble, Little, Kenrick, Caulfield Jun., Fisher, Sawyer, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Hale, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Butler, Miss Leserve, Mrs Norton, Mrs Masters, Mrs Coates, Mrs Lloyd.

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

8968
20 March 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A New Scot's Opera. [By Joseph Mitchell.] All the Habits entirely New. [See a letter by the Author in Daily Advertiser, 20 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Highland Fair Or Union Of The Clans

8969
14 June 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 14 June: The Managers of...Drury-Lane, have Orders to get Things in Readiness for the Royal Theatre at Hampton-Court, where Plays are to be acted for the Diversion of the Royal Family

Performances

8970
17 June 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 17 June: His Majesty's Servants [of dl] are getting every Thing in Readiness to Act at Hampton-Court twice a Week...and We hear they are to act there the first Time on Monday next

Performances

8971
08 November 1731 @ Soho Square

Event Comment: [Sometime during last week'] the Tragedy of Junius Brutus, written by Voltaire, was acted in French by the young Gentlemen educated at the Academy in Soho Square. -Daily Advertiser, 8 Nov

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Junius Brutus

8972
11 November 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: In Daily Advertiser (but not Daily Post) the bill is headed: By Authority

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: As17311104

8973
04 January 1732 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

Performance Comment: Advertised, but Daily Advertiser, 5 Jan., reports that it was not given because of the indisposition of a singer.

8974
28 January 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Performance Comment: As17310923, but Justice-_; Lovewell-_ (Daily Advertiser, 25 Jan.).

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance:

8975
04 March 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17311025, but Falstaff-Gentleman who perform'd it in Harry the Fourth; Rugby-Williams; Sir Hugh-Norris; Mrs Ford-Mrs Giffard? (Daily Advertiser) or Mrs Roberts (Daily Post).

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: LLes Amants-Burney, Mrs Wherrit