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12591 results for: Keyword - Ackman</i> (<i>Public Advertiser</i>). This day only. Paid $Mr C. <span class=
We found 9641 matches on Event Comments, 3145 matches on Performance Comments, 1214 matches on Performance Title, 30 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1026
10 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Charles Macklin, a re-writing of his The True-Born Scotsman, based partly on Nanine, by Voltaire, 1st acted at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 10 July 1764. Author of prologue unknown. Epilogue by Frederick Pilon (Public Advertiser, 28 May 1781). Text 1st published (unauthorized), Dublin, 1785]: The Characters new dressed. Receipts: #173 14s. 6d. (172.12.0; 1.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

1027
20 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Richard Cumberland. Text (which assigns no parts) 1st published in his Posthumus Dramatic Works, I, 1813. Epilogue by the author (Public Advertiser, 24 Apr. 1782). Prologue probably by same; speakers unknown]: With new Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. Receipts: #171 14s. (166/6; 5/8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Walloons

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

1028
19 April 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. Mainpiece: Not acted these 30 years [not acted since 22 July 1718]. Afterpiece [1st time; C 2, ascribed to Jesse Foot. MS: Larpent 650; not published; synopsis of plot in Gazetteer, 20 Apr. Author of Prologue unknown]. Public Advertiser, 16 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 2, Little-Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #216 18s. (73/10; 35/11; 3/10; tickets: 104/7) (charge: #106 8s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Veil

Afterpiece Title: Jewish Education

Afterpiece Title: The Quacks; or, The Credulous Man

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17840311athi

1029
26 February 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Macbeth now needs "a less monotonous Macbeth--witches more terrific--gothic scenes--occasional darkness, &c." (Public Advertiser, 28 Feb.). Receipts: #230 13s. (208/9/0; 22/1/6; 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Alchymist

1030
26 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Mrs Lovemore was at Bath, 31 Oct. 1778. Afterpiece in place of The Humourist, announced on playbill of 25 Nov.] "[Mrs Siddons's] retort courteous, mimicry of laugh, and listless indifference of Lovemore were truly excellent . . . [Miss Farren's] descriptions of Ranelagh Ladies meeting, &c. were highly seasoned, and had an excellent counterpart in Smith's appendix" (Public Advertiser, 28 Nov.). Receipts: #232 2s. 6d. (219/3/0; 12/17/0; 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

1031
12 February 1788 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: "Miss Hilligsberg cannot be praised enough for her exertions and sucess in the execution of [the second] ballet, which has given her an opportunity of making herself perfect in her profession [this being her 1st season on the stage]...The scenery has no doubt by Noverre, and if it is not more magnificent it is not for want of genius on his part, but to spare the purse of the Managers...The Palace of Cupidv for the reception of Psiche in the first, and that of Venus in the last act, with the appearance of Jupiter, &c. in the skies, were very well executed, and beautifully arranged by the actors" (Public Advertiser, 7 Feb.). Receipts: #202 11s. (non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Locandiera

Dance: End I: The Military Dance, as17880115

Ballet: End Opera: L'Amour et Psiche. As17880129

1032
07 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Macklin. [This was his last appearance on the stage; his 1st was c. 1716. In the middle of his first scene his memory failed him, and Ryder, who had been asked by the manager to be prepared for this eventuality, finished the part (Public Advertiser, 9 May; William W. Appleton, Charles Macklin, 1960, 225-27).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Dance: End IV: Fortune's Favor-Byrn, Mrs Goodwin, Mrs Ratchford

1033
10 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 2nd piece [1st time; C 3, by Thomas Bellamy; on 24 Aug. and thereafter reduced to 2 acts. MS: Larpent MS 841; not published]. Public Advertiser, 4 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Catch Club [i

Afterpiece Title: The Comet; or, How to Come at Her

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Afterpiece Title: The Benevolent Planters

Dance: As17890805

Entertainment: Monologue As17890617

1034
25 February 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Catherine? Cuthbertson. Authors of Prologue and Epilogue unknown. Larpent MS 969; not published]: With new Dresses and Decorations. "The [new] piece possessing nothing like a plot, and being perfectly uninteresting, was much disapproved of...Palmer contributed to its bad reception by being absent when he was most wanted on the stage, and occasioning thereby an aukward chasm, which put the audience out of humour. He was otherwise highly reprehensible for his imperfections in his part" (Public Advertiser, 26 Feb.). Receipts: #375 16s. 6d. (342.13.6; 31.7.0; 1.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At king's Anna

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

1035
02 November 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Orchestra #61 13s. a week; Peake #10 a week; Soldiers #5 5s. a week. Receipts: #151 4s. (81.13; 65.18; 3.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

1036
10 February 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: GGeneral Advertiser: This day is publish'd at 6d. An Apology to the Town, for Himself and the Bottle. By J. Nick-all. N.B. Mr P- was mistaken in the name. To which is prefix'd an exact representation of the scene of Harlequin's Escape into the Bottlev , introduc'd into the Pantomime of Apollo and Daphne, or the Burgomaster Trick'd, the Character of Harlequin by Mr Phillips. Printed for B. Dickenson, the corner of Bell Savage Inn, Ludgate Hill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

1037
14 December 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Seventh Day. [Letter from Smart to Dr Hill in Public Advertiser. See Roland Botting, "Smart in London," Research Studies State College of Washington, No. 7 (1939).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Afterpiece Title: Animal Pantomime

1038
02 January 1753 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Twentieth Day. [No Public Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Afterpiece Title: Animal Pantomime

1039
31 January 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. Prince of Wales, Princess Dowager Prince Ed: & another Girl with. (Cross). A person last Tuesday in the playhouse at Drury Lane, that had some difference with another (whom he don't know) about a seat in the Pit, would be glad of a private conference, to be convinced who was in the fault; the publisher hereof may be seen 'Change at the usual hours every day this week to appoint a place for said conference (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Cast
Role: French Herald Actor: Ackman

Music: As17540123

Dance: Several Entertainments-Devisse, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste

1040
20 September 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Public Advertiser includes this day a 78-line poem in octasyllabic couplets on J. Lewis's portrait of Mrs Woffington: @Her Shape, her Features, and her Dress@As far as colour can express@Friend Lewis' pencil has design'd:@Poet 'Tis yours to paint her mind...@ And the versifier proceeds to describe her as she affects audiences in the theatre.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

1041
19 December 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece :By Particular Desire. The Orphan of China published. Price 1s. 6d. Dedicated to Garrick. Translated from the French of Voltaire. Acted at Paris with great applause. Published This Day Reflections on Theatrical Expression in Tragedy, with a proper introduction and appendix. For the character of the above see The Monthly Review for July (Public Advertiser). [This must be the second edition of Roger Pickering's pamphlet. See 13 March 1755.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

1042
28 January 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Notice is hereby Given that the Annual Feast of the Shakespeare Society will be held on Wednesday the 10th of March next, at the Shakespeare's Head Tavern, Covent Garden, and that tickets are left with the Master of that House to be disposed of to the Gentlemen who subscrib'd for tickets for the last Feast, and who are to call for them on or before the 7th of February. Such Tickets as are not call'd for by that day will be delivered to the Steward to be otherwise disposed of; The person's name to whom a ticket is deliver'd, will be indorsed thereon, and no other person admitted thereby. E.B. Secreatary (Public Advertiser). Receitps: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Peter Actor: Ackman

1043
09 March 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. This Day Publish'd Athelstan, a Tragedy, as it is acted at Drury Lane, by the author of Barbarossa, Printed for Lockyer Davis, and Charles Reymers, against Grays Inn Gate, Holborn, and at Lord Bacon's Head in Fleet St. (Public Advertiser). This month was published Critical Remarks on the Tragedy of Athelstan, 6d. Cooper (Gentleman's Magazine). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Athelstan

1044
13 January 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Notice is hereby given, that the Annual Feast of the Shakespeare Society will be held on Wed. 2nd of March next, at the Shakespeare's Head Tavern in Covent Garden; and that tickets are left with the Master of that House to be disposed of to the Gentlemen who subscribed for Tickets for the last Feast, and who are to call for them at any time within thirty days from the date thereof. Such tickets as are not in that time called for will be delivered to the Stewards to be otherwise disposed of. The person's name to whom a Ticket is deliver'd will be endors'd thereon, and no other person can be admitted thereby. E. B. Secretary (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

1045
02 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: SShakespear Society. The Annual feast of this Society will be held this day at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden. Dinner will be on the Table at 3 o'clock (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

1046
17 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Both Pieces By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. This day is publish'd The Male Coquette, or 1757, a Farce in 2 acts, As it is performing at Drury Lane. Printed for Paul Vaillant, faning Southampton St. in the Strand. Price 1s. (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

1047
19 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This day is publish'd Isabella, or the Fatal Marriage, a Play, alter'd from Southern, as it is Performed at Drury Lane, printed for J. R. Tonson in the Strand. Price 1s. (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Dance: I: The Market, as17571126

1048
07 February 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Performance Comment: See17571222, but this day's notice in the Public Advertiser for the first time lists the cast, including mention of a Proper Song for Beard as Careless, but Dwindle, Page, Boxkeeper, Drawer, Servant omitted.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Clod Actor: Ackman

1049
04 May 1758 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For the Use of the Marine Society. [Advance notice in Public Advertiser, 24 April; not in issues for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Solimano

Song: Songs As17580418

1050
10 September 1760 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The Managers of the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane intended to have opened their House next Saturday [13 Sept.]; but as the Weather continues so fine they shall defer it 'till next Week. The Day of Opening the season, with the Play, will be advertised on Monday next in this Paper (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None