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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.

9401
03 May 1766 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Long letter of complaint in Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser about text of the Libretto, arguing verse would be better for translation than prose, in the printed books supplied at the Opera House.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Leroe Cinese

9402
24 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Macklin. Daily Advertiser, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Macklin, Tavistock-Row, Covent-Garden. [Mrs Bulkley's 1st appearance as Portia was at this theatre, 1 Jan. 1768.] Receipts: #212 8s. (132.1; tickets: 80.7) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Jessica Actor: Miss Dayes

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End III: La Soiree a@la@Mode, as17771103; End IV: As17780309

9403
09 January 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: Benedick-Henderson; Leonato-Hull; Don Pedro-Davies; Claudio-Whitfield; Balthazar (with a song)-Mattocks; Don John-Booth; Anthonio-Thompson; Borachio-J. Bates [Puilic Advertiser: W. Bates]; Conrade-Mahon; Friar-Fearon; Verges-Wewitzer; Dogberry-Quick; Town Clerk-Edwin; Hero-Mrs Kemble; Margaret-Mrs Davenett; Ursula-Mrs Poussin; Beatrice-Miss Younge .

Afterpiece Title: Friar Bacon

9404
04 March 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "A most ridiculous circumstance happened in the last act [of mainpiece]--nothing less than a total silence on the Stage, where all the Dramatis Personae stood in a rank, waiting for the next speech, which however was not heard, for, after a considerable time, the curtain was let down . . . Lewis came forward and acquainted the House that the part sent to Aickin was incomplete, and that he (who was to finish the Play) had never been furnished with the last speech. As we understood rehearsals were necessary to getting up Plays, we cannot reconcile this blunder to our apprehension" (General Advertiser, 6 Mar.). Receipts: #157 16s. (152/10; 5/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece a new dance, The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd, by Byrn, Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin, Miss Besford

9405
21 March 1786 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A revived Serious Opera, with Grand Chorusses, New Dresses and Decorations; the Music by Sacchini. "In the second act [Mme Mara, who sang Andromeda] was encored in a song of Bravura . .. The amazing extent of her voice never appeared in a more conspicuous light... As to the Chorusses, we understand that they were under the immediate direction of Mme Mara, which accounts for the uncommon precision with which they were executed" (General Advertiser, 22 Mar.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Perseo

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement Villageois, as17860218; End of Act II Dance incidental to the Opera by Henry, Duquesney Qun.], the two Mlles Simonet; End of Opera New Divertissement, as17860311athi

9406
20 May 1786 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera [1st time; COM 2], written by Charles Francis Badini, and set to music by Pasquale Anfossi. "The Author has . . . struck out ideas fit to excite the utmost powers of harmony. We do not think that he has been sufficiently seconded by Signor Anfossi. The music evidently labours under a tedious monotony" (General Advertiser, 22 May)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Linglese In Italia

Dance: As17860516 throughout

9407
14 July 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Woollery. [As afterpiece the playbill announces A Beggar on Horseback, but "on account of Edwin's being unluckily hurt by a fall from his horse, the farce was changed to A Mogul Tale (General Advertiser, 15 July).] Morning Chronicle, 10 July: Tickets to be had of Miss Woollery, No. 5, Delahay-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Dance: As17860706

9408
21 July 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb. Morning Chronicle, 17 July: Tickets to be had of Mrs Webb, No. 22, corner of Broad Court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. "Old Jack, instead of appearing with all that easy, flowing, negligent facetiousness which the poet has so inimitably pourtrayed, assumed the part of moral solemnity, and every joke was delivered with a sort of sententious dignity that destroyed its natural impression" (General Advertiser, 22 July)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: Falstaff (for that night only)-Mrs Webb; Hotspur-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); King-Bensley; Westmorland-Usher; Sir Walter Blunt-Riley; Prince John-Master Farley; Worcester-Gardner; Poins-R. Palmer; Vernon-Davies; Bardolph-Wewitzer; Francis-Barrett; Carriers-Parsons, Burton; Prince of Wales-Palmer; Hostess-Mrs Love; Lady Percy-Mrs Cuyler .

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

9409
18 October 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "[In mainpiece] Richard , last night, was personated by Davies, and the Governor by Macready" (General Advertiser, 19 Oct.). Receipts: #226 18s. (222.7.6; 4.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Coeur De Lion

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

9410
21 October 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: In Three Acts [and see 16 Oct.]. "Richard Coeur de Lion has been compressed into an after-piece by an exclusion of the part of Margery, the 2nd Chorus, and other trifling incidents" (General Advertiser, 23 Oct.). Receipts: #218 10s. (209.7.6; 9.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Song: In V: a Roman Ovation-; Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Darley, Cubitt, Brown, Mrs Martyr, Miss Stevenson, Miss Stuart, Miss Cranfield, Mrs Kennedy

9411
21 November 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces Richard Coeur de Lion, but because of "Mrs Jordan's sudden indisposition [it was changed] to The Humourist" (General Advertiser, 22 Nov.).] Receipts: #177 7s. 6d. (148.10.0; 27.8.0; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

9412
03 April 1788 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Coulon. Tickets to be had of Mlle Coulon, No. 8, Great Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. "The Dance between Gardel and Vestris on Thursday is everywhere talked of, in the highest terms of admiration. Such excellence no audience ever before witnessed" (General Advertiser, 5 Apr.). Receipts not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: End I: a New Ballet serious and demi-charactere (composed by Noverre)-Gardel, Mlle Coulon, Mlle Hilligsberg, Didelot, Chevalier, Henry, the two Miss Simonets, Miss Harvey, Vestris; End Opera: Euthyme et Eucharis-see17880313 conclude with: the celebrated Pas de Quatre of Panurge-Gardel, Mlle Hilligsberg, Mlle Coulon, Vestris

9413
11 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. [1st piece in place of Look before You Leap, advertised on playbill of 10 Apr. This new farce was withdrawn from cg, and 1st acted at the hay, 22 Aug. 1788.] 2nd piece: In 3 acts. General Advertiser, 5 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 28, Great Pultney-street. Receipts: #260 17s. (152.9; 3.17; tickets: 104.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Afterpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Performance Comment: Florizel (1st and only time)-Mrs Martyr; Polixenes-Aickin; Camillo-Hull; Clown-Quick; Autolicus (with songs)-Edwin; Old Shepherd-Booth; Nicholas-Darley; Leontes-Pope; Perdita-Miss Brunton; Paulina-Mrs Morton; Dorcas-Miss Stuart; Hermione (for that night only)-Mrs Wells.

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: End: The new Four@and@Twenty Fidlers-Edwin; In II 2nd piece: Come come my good Shepherds-Mrs Martyr

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: A Description of the Curiosities in the Tower-Edwin

9414
19 November 1660 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Edward Gower to Sir R. Leveson, 20 Nov. 1660: Yesternight the King, Queen, Princess, &c. supped at the Duke of Albemarle's, where they had the Silent Woman acted in the cockpit (HMC, 5th Report, 1876, p. 200). The King's Company. Pepys, Diary, 20 Nov. 1660: This morning I found my Lord in bed late, he having been with the King, Queen, and Princess, at the cockpit all night, where General Monk treated them; and after supper a play, where the King did put a great affront upon John? Singleton's musique, he bidding them stop and bade the French musique play, which, my Lord says, do much outdo all ours. The prologue was printed in 1660: The Prologue to His Majesty at the first Play presented at the cock-pit in Whitehall, Being part of that Noble Entertainment which Their Majesties received Novemb. 19. from his Grace the Duke of Albemarle. [The Prologue has been reprinted by Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 11-12. Bodleian Wood 398 has a MS note: By Sir Jo. Denham.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

9415
31 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argalus And Parthenia

9416
27 June 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

9417
26 November 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Performances

9418
06 February 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

9419
22 September 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

9420
16 October 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: This play was probably given by the King's Company, which presented it a number of times later. See Noyes, Ben Jonson, pp. 42-43. Evelyn, Diary: I saw Vulpone acted at court before their Majesties &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

9421
20 November 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Admiral

9422
19 December 1664 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

9423
05 June 1665 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The dangerous increase in the plague resulted in a proclamation closing the theatres. L. C. 5@138, p. 417 (in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 299n): Whereas it is thought dangerous that soe greate resort of People should be permitted at yor Theatre in this tyme of Infection of the Plague These are therefore to require you that you forbeare Acting any more Playes vntill you shall receive further Order from mee

Performances

9424
18 October 1666 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Duke's Company, presumably. Evelyn, Diary: This night was acted my Lord Brahals Tragedy cal'd Mustapha before their Majesties &c: at Court: at which I was present, very seldom at any time, going to the publique Theaters, for Women now (& never 'til now) permitted to appeare & act, which inflaming severall young noble-men & gallants, became their whores, & to some their Wives, wittnesse the Earle of Oxford, Sir R. Howard, Pr. Rupert, the E. of Dorset, & another greater person than any of these, who fell into their snares, to the reproch of their noble families, & ruine both of body & Soule: I was invited to see this Tragedie, exceedingly well writ, by my Lord Chamberlain, though in my mind, I did not approve of any such passe time, in a season of such Judgements & Calamitie. Pepys, Diary: Here my Lord Bruncker proffered to carry me and my wife into a play at court to-night, and to lend me his coach home, which tempted me much; but I shall not do it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

9425
26 November 1666 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on His Majesty's bill at the Duke's Company, L. C. 5@139, p. 125: Worse & Worse at court. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Worse And Worse