SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C ")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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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.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: IV: The Wake, as17680929, but Sga Giorgi, Mrs _King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Innocence

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No Persons to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Places for Boxes to be had (only) of Mr Sarjant at the Stage Door. The Doors to be opened at 5 o'clock. To begin exactly at 6 o'clock. [Customary footnote to all Bills.] Receipts: #177 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Fishar, Sga Manesiere [See17671106]

Event Comment: Afterpiece: In the Manner it was performed at Stratford. This Ode was as it was perform'd at the Jubilee at Stratford upon Avon Dedicating a Building & Erecting a Statue to Shakespeare it was written by D. G. Esqr. and the Music by Dr Arne Mr G. speaking in this performance is equal to anything he ever did and met with as much applause as his heart could desire. It is a most delightful performance (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Ode

Dance: III: A Dance-Dagueville, Sga Vidini

Event Comment: Rec'd a message that Mrs Barry was better & she would be able to Rehearse on Monday & that Mr Barry would be able to play Lord Townly on Thursday next (Hopkins MS Memorandum Book). [See 2 Nov.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Marcellus Actor: Ackman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: I: A New Pantomime Dance-Daiguville, Sga Vidini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Cast
Role: Lord Rake Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: II: New Dance (Performed but once) The Rabbit Seller, as17691228

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Event Comment: Rec'd a Message from Mr Barry that he was not able to play King Lear on Fryday, which was at the bottom of today's Bills, but that he believ'd he could play on Saturday. He did not play again till Mond. the 15, King Lear (Hopkins MS Memorandum Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Ben Budge Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Ode

Dance: IV: The Rabbit Seller, as17691228

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: The Whim, as17691123

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Cast
Role: Williams Actor: Ackman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part Ii

Cast
Role: Hastings Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Event Comment: The Afterpiece a New Pantomime [by Henry Woodward, satirizing Garrick's Jubilee] with New Music by Fisher. New Scenes painted by Messrs Dahl and Richards. Nothing under Full Prices will be taken. [Full Prices notice throughout the run of the pantomime this season. Town and Country Magazine (from Theatre No XIII) comments: "In the Pageant scene several of the characters that walk at Drury Lane are highly ridiculed, particularly Mark Antony and Cleopatra, who dance off with their black retinue to the playing of casquets." The scene closes with the descent of the statue of the late Mr Rich under the name of Lun, and the Harlequins all pay him honour.] Receipts: #250 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Jubilee

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part Ii

Cast
Role: Hastings Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: IV: The Rabbit Sellers, as17691228

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Johnston at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at Half a Guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. 6d. Second Gallery 2s. The doors to be opened at 5 o'clock. To begin at Half past six. [Stanley and Smith carried their Royal Prerogative over to Drury Lane this season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: FFirst Violin-Barthelemon; Concerto on Hautboy-Fischer

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes to be laid together at 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. Tickets to be had and places to be taken for the Boxes at Mr Sarjeant's (only) at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Books of the Performance will be sold there. The doors to be opened at Five. To Begin at Half past Six. Received of Toms and Arnold Charges of the House. #35

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: FFirst Violin, a Solo-Giardini; Concerto on French Horns-Sg Rodolpho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Captain Actor: Ackman
Role: Capt. Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Resurrection

Music: As17700302