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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.

1651
26 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales (Public Advertiser). Prince of Wales & 6 ye Family (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Dance: TThe Press Gang, as17561013

1652
24 November 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With proper Dances and Decorations (Public Advertiser). Miss Bricklayer sung Indiff. (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

1653
21 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Chinese Mandarin (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: As17561216

1654
23 December 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This Night (tho' not so mentioned) was for Dr Hawksworth, who alter'd the play (he is just made a Dr of Law) (Cross). Last time of performing till the Holidays (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

1655
30 December 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (Public Advertiser). [Present] Prince of Wales & 7 More (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.

1656
28 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Vernon play'd his Wife's part & was well receiv'd (Cross). [The Public Advertiser, however, carried her name in the play notice.] Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eliza

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

1657
28 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Austin did Aboan (Cross). Third time of his appearing on this stage (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.

1658
30 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece alter'd from Beaumont & Fletcher (Cross) being a sequel to Catherine and Petruchio; or, The Taming of the Shrew (Public Advertiser). Benefit for Pritchard. Tickets of Pritchard in Great Queen St.; Lincoln's Inn Fields; and at Pritchard's Warehouse in Tavistock St. [The Larpent MS 133 lists the characters: Sophocles, Tranio, Maria, Bianca, Jaques, Petruchio, Petronius, Pedro, Citizens, Countrymen, Doctor, Apothecary, 1st Watch, 2nd Watch.] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Afterpiece Title: The Tamer Tam'd

Song: Beard

1659
04 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular Desire. Walker, Miss Barton, Miss Rousillet, Mrs Preston Tickets (Cross). Tickets delivered for the Double Dealer will be taken (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.

1660
10 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Lovell Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: [Toy-Shop ]The Author

Performance Comment: [As17570509, for Toyshop, but the The Public Advertiser lists the The Author, for which see17570413] .
Cast
Role: First Gentleman Actor: Ackman

1661
16 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Account Book lists Orpheus and Eurydice as afterpiece, but The Public Advertiser lists Lethe.] Receipts: #51 18s. 6d. (Account Book.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

1662
29 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command. Receipts: #194 19s. 6d. Present His Majesty. Gave Yeomen of the Guards 10s. 6d. (Account Book). Public Advertiser: We hear His Majesty will be at Covent Garden this night to see the Comedy of She Wou'd and She Wou'd not, with the Duke and No Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Guerin, Mlle Capdeville

1663
09 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow in Distress, with Four Children (Public Advertiser). Benefit for Mrs Calvert. Receipts: #57 7s. Income from tickets #112 13s. (boxes 113; pit 318; gallery 361). Charges #84 (Account Book). [The Account Book shows a profit again of #31 9s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

1664
10 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: CColly Cibber dy'd (Cross). Afterpiece: By Desire. On Monday Next will be publish'd as 1s. Isabella, or the Fatal Marriage. A Play alter'd from Southern, as it is now performing at Drury Lane (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: The Market, as17571126

1665
23 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #50 2s. 6d. (Account Book). [The Public Advertiser contains the customary notice for the annual feast of the Shakespeare Society, to be at the Shakespeare's Head Tavern on 15 Feb. Signed E.B. Secretary.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

1666
28 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: 'TTis reported that her Royal Highness the Princess Carolina is dangerously indisposed (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17571223

1667
29 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Last Night the Princess Carolina dy'd & this Morning about 8 we receiv'd an order from the Chamberlain not to play 'till farther orders,--we obey'd & order ye Bills posted for this Night, to be pull'd down (Cross). [The Fatal Marriage and The Male Coquette had been scheduled.] Yesterday about 11 o'clock died at her Apartments in St James's Palace, Princess Caroline Elizabeth, 3rd daughter of our most Gracious Sovereign. Her Royal Highness was in her 45th year of her age, being born on the 10th of June 1713, and has been in a bad state of health for several years past. Her burial, it is said, is by her own Desire to be very private (Public Advertiser)

Performances

1668
12 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: To be Lett. Elegantly Furnish'd, the House of the Late Colley Cibber, Esq: in Berkley Square, the Corner of Bruton Street (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #106 3s. Gave Porters of the several Inns, #3 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

1669
23 January 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: dvertised in Public Advertiser, 19 Jan., but not 23 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

1670
31 January 1758 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A pasticcio, with libretto by G. A. Migliavacca; music by F. G. Bertoni, Handel, Davide Perez (Deutsch, Handel, p. 793). A New Opera, with new Decorations and Dances. It will be performed Tuesday and Zenobia on Saturdays (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Solimano

Dance: Signora Forti, Signora Bonomi, Grimaldi, Signora Lescot

1671
14 March 1758 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. Ths Musick newly composed by Sig Cocchi. New Clothes, Decorations, and Dances. [On Monday 13 March Sga Frasi published in the Public Advertiser thanks for those who supported her benefit (6 March) and apologized for deficiencies in the performances. Some of the principals were engaged in the run of the new tragedy [The Prophetess? Mariamne?] whose run she could not anticipate.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Issipile

1672
03 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 16 Years. [See 27 Dec. 1746.] Benefit for Shuter. Receipts: #173 16s. 6d. Tickets #150 13s. (boxes 272; pit 551). Charges: #63 (Account Book), [#325 9s. 6d. marks the largest house in money value this season. Shuter advertised his benefit early, then on 28 March inserted this puff in the Public Advertiser: [Mrs Centlivre's Comedies have a vein of pleasantry in them that will always be relish'd. She knew the Genius of this nation, and she wrote up to the spirit of it; her Bold Stroke for a Wife, was a masterpiece that much increased her reputation: it establish'd that of Kit Bullock, a smart sprightly actor. His performance of Col. Feignwell was greatly applauded. Shuter has judiciously chosen to play to at his own benefit, and everyone that knows his powers, knows he will play it at least with drollery and justice equal to him."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: SSicilian Peasants, as17571217; Fingalian Dance, as17571013

Entertainment: (BBy Desire,) End of Play: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Shuter; (By Desire,) End of Farce: Cries of London-Shuter

1673
12 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Verney [Housekeeper]. Tickets to be had of Verney at the Stage Door. Afterpiece: By Desire (Public Advertiser), done by Children (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-Walker

1674
30 June 1758 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: See 27 June. [No notice of the play appears in the Public Advertiser, 29 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

1675
07 July 1758 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: As 27 June. [No notice in Public Advertiser for 6 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona