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14707 results for: Keyword - Ackman</i> (<i>Public Advertiser</i>). This day only. Paid $Mr C. Bannister
We found 9758 matches on Event Comments, 4881 matches on Performance Comments, 1353 matches on Performance Title, 31 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

7001
23 November 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: OOthello is oblig'd to be deferr'd till Friday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Committee

Performance Comment: As17561020, but Day-Costollo.
Cast
Role: Day Actor: Costollo.
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

7002
27 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Committee

Performance Comment: As17561123, but Day-Collins.
Cast
Role: Day Actor: Collins.
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

7003
06 January 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Medley Concert

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolic

Performance Comment: The Battle of Rosbach. As17571226, but concluding with a new song- in honour of that day; Music by Bryan-Kear.
Cast
Role: concluding with a new song Actor: in honour of that day

Ballet: LLe Carneval de Venice. As17571226, but Harlequin-J. Hussey

7004
02 March 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: With new Additions and Alterations. Pit and Boxes to be laid together, and no person to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this day at the said Office in the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. The Doors to be open at Half an Hour after Four o'clock, Pit and Boxes at Five, to begin at Half an Hour after Six. This day is published Price 1s. Solomon, An Oratorio, with New Additions and Alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Solomon

7005
15 July 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Eighth Night. This day and Thursday. After which days the performances by Particular Desire will be on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

7006
13 July 1761 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Eleventh Day. N.B. The managers propose to perform every day this week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Actors only: Actor: Reinhold, Gaudry, Mrs Vernon.

Dance: As17610727

7007
25 July 1761 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Tenth Day. The Manager proposes to perform every day next week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Dance: As17610716

7008
18 May 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Seventh Day. In this day's lecture the pupils will exhibited in some particular branches of oratory not yet touched upon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

7009
18 February 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties, an Occasional Oratorio "selected from the most celebrated compositions of the late George Frederick Handel." Pit and Boxes to be put together. No person to be admitted without Tickets which will be deliver'd this day at the Office in the Theatre at half a guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be opened at half past Four. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at half after Six. This day Publish'd Price 1s. An Occasional Oratorio, as it is to be performed at Covent Garden...J. and R. Tonson. [The most provocative commentary on Oratorios may be found in [Robert Maddison's] An Examination of the Oratorios performed This Season at Covent Garden, (London, 1763) 63 pages, wherein he seeks to define the genre, then judge the performances in terms of his definition.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Occasional Oratorio

Music: CConcertos on Organ-Stanley; on Violin-Hay

7010
30 March 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. This Day publish'd Price 1s. L'Allegro ed Il Penseroso By Milton, and a Song for St Cecelia's Day by Dryden as performed at Covent Garden. Printed for J. and R. Tonson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lallegro Il Penseroso Drydens Ode

Music: As17640309

7011
01 November 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: No Performance. Theatre clos'd for royal death of the Duke of Cumberland. Love for Love & The Royal Chace listed next day. [Opened again 11 Nov.]*c1765 11 01 cg No Performance. Theatre clos'd for royal death of the Duke of Cumberland. Love for Love & The Royal Chace listed next day. [Opened again 11 Nov.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: The Garland?-as17651003

7012
02 January 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: Parts by King, Bensley, Parsons, Champness, Fawcett, Fox, Vernon, Mrs Abington, Mrs Baddeley, Miss Plym, Miss Reynolds, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Dorman, Mrs Arne. Prologue and Epilogue. The Dances-Grimaldi, Guidetti, Duquesney, Giorgi, Mrs King, Sga Giorgi, Miss Rogers, Miss Ford, Miss Collet; Cymon-Vernon; Linco-King; Merlin (Enchanter)-Bensley; Dorus-Parsons; Damon and Dorilas-Fawcett, Fox; Demon of Revenge-Champness; Sylvia-Mrs Arne; Urganda (Enchantress)-Mrs Baddeley; Fatima-Mrs Abington; Dorcas-Mrs Bradshaw; 1st shepherdess-Miss Reynolds; 2nd Shepherdess-Miss Plym; Cupid-Miss Rogers; Parts-Mrs Dorman; Prologue for New Year's Day-King; Epilogue (by George Keate)-Mrs Abington (Edition of 1767).
Cast
Role: Prologue for New Year's Day Actor: King

7013
05 December 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Comedy [by Wm Kenrick] never perform'd before. The characters New Dress'd. [Theatrical Monitor, No VIII (16 Dec. 1767) approved the mainpiece--"engages the mind, affects the passions, totally divested of indecency"--but thought Garrick's art of "puffing" was evident in his note at foot of playbills, "Those Ladies and Gentlemen, who have taken places for this day, are desired to send their servants by one o'clock, in order to ascertain the same, otherwise they cannot be secured," since the house, except the first night, had not been half full. N.B. This note appeared in an Advance Bill, but did not appear in the Bill of the Day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widowd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

7014
13 May 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Benefit for Dibdin, but not acted,] Princess Louisa Anne, sister to His Majesty died in the morning. All Theatres and Gardens closed for 8 days. Rec'd of Mrs Squibb for her deficiency the 10th Inst. #11 5s. Rec'd of Davis for his deficiency the 4th inst. #4 12s. Received of Perry for his deficiency the 4th inst. #4 12s. (Account Book).*c1768 05 13 cg [Benefit for Dibdin, but not acted,] Princess Louisa Anne, sister to His Majesty died in the morning. All Theatres and Gardens closed for 8 days. Rec'd of Mrs Squibb for her deficiency the 10th Inst. #11 5s. Rec'd of Davis for his deficiency the 4th inst. #4 12s. Received of Perry for his deficiency the 4th inst. #4 12s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performance Comment: The Maid of the Mill. As17680427 but to avoid confusion: Aimworth-Mattocks; Sir Harry-Hartry (of Drury Lane); Giles-Mahoon; Mervin-Gentleman, 1st appearance this stage; Fairfield-Gibson; Ralph-Dibdin; Lady Sycamore-Mrs Pitt; Theodosia-Mrs Baker; Fanny-Mrs Thompson; Patty-Mrs Pinto; End Act I, a Dance incidental to the opera-Fishar, Arnauld, Sga Manesiere, Miss Valois.
Cast
Role: Mervin Actor: Gentleman, 1st appearance this stage

Afterpiece Title: None

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Miss Pitt

7015
15 September 1768 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Thirty-fourth Day. Being Positively the last Day of performing this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Cast
Role: Mopsus Actor: Bannister

Dance: As17680530

7016
10 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gideon

Performance Comment: Parts for five characters and a Chorus; Gideon-; Joash-; Eliakim-; a Priest of Baal-; Oreb-; Chorus of Israelites-.*m1769 2 10 cg The First Violin, a Concerto-Sga Paganini; a Concerto on the Hautboy-Fischer.*c1769 2 10 cg By Command of their Majesties. Pit and Boxes to be put together. Tickets will be deliver'd this day in the Office of the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. The doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin at Half an Hour after Six. A New ORATORIO, the Music by Handel. Composed by Dr Morrell (Biographia Dramatica). We cannot commend this piece, it being altogether a very tedious and heavy performance (Theatrical Register). Charges: #35.
Cast
Role: a Concerto on the Hautboy Actor: Fischer.c1769 2 10 cg By Command of their Majesties. Pit and Boxes to be put together. Tickets will be deliver'd this day in the Office of the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. The doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin at Half an Hour after Six. A New ORATORIO, the Music by Handel. Composed by Dr Morrell

7017
22 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these two years. [See 7 Feb. 1770.] Mrs Lessingham in the pay accounts this evening receiv'd her regular salary of #2 10s. for five previous days, plus a lump sum in addition amounting to #74 13s. 4d. (Account Book). A subsequent raise in salary on the books indicates her receiving now #1 3s. 3d. per day instead of the 10s. with which she began the season. Receipts: #149 10s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

7018
03 June 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: As17720427 but Obadiah-Love; Ruth-Mrs Hopkins; Abel-W. Palmer; Mrs Day-Mrs Bradshaw; Storey-_.
Cast
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Day Actor: Baddeley

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Entertainment: IV: introduce the Description of a Man of War and a Sea Fight-Moody

Dance: V: New Double Hornpipe-Master Whitlow, Miss Lings (scholars of Sg Giorgi)

7019
03 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: As17800501, but in Scene IX Attendant Genius-Miss Langrish; added to The May-Day Garland: Colombine-Miss Cranfield; from Scene I: Give round the word dismount-_.
Cast
Role: added to The May Actor: Day Garland: Colombine-Miss Cranfield
Role: The May Actor: Day Garland

Afterpiece Title: The Elders

Cast
Role: The May Actor: Day Garland

7020
26 December 1780 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: It not being customary to perform on the Day following Christmas Day, there will be no Opera till Saturday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

7021
24 October 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Belville Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece a new Comic Dance, The Market [on 28 Oct., and thereafter, entitled The Market-Day], by Hamoir and Mrs Sutton; In afterpiece, as17851018

Performance Comment: , and thereafter, entitled The Market-Day], by Hamoir and Mrs Sutton; In afterpiece, as17851018., by Hamoir and Mrs Sutton; In afterpiece, as17851018.
Cast
Role: , entitled The Market Actor: Day

7022
18 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Macheath Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: III: a Hornpipe-Johnston

Song: End I: Primroses deck the Banks' green side (composed by Linley? Sen)-Dignum; End I afterpiece: Bright Phoebus has mounted the Chariot of Day (composed by Hook)-Dignum

Performance Comment: Sen=)-Dignum; End I afterpiece: Bright Phoebus has mounted the Chariot of Day (composed by Hook)-Dignum.
Cast
Role: Bright Phoebus has mounted the Chariot of Day Actor: Dignum.

7023
28 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Song: End III: song-Miss Barnes; End IV: O! Nanny wilt thou go with me (composed by Carter)-Dignum; End: Bright Phoebus has mounted the Chariot of Day-Miss Barnes

Performance Comment: Nanny wilt thou go with me (composed by Carter)-Dignum; End: Bright Phoebus has mounted the Chariot of Day-Miss Barnes.
Cast
Role: Bright Phoebus has mounted the Chariot of Day Actor: Miss Barnes.

7024
10 June 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: As17880207, but Mrs Day-Mrs Pitt (of cg).
Cast
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Mr Day Actor: Baddeley

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Cast
Role: Dabble Actor: Bannister Jun.

Dance: As17880313

Song: End IV: O Say bonny Lass, as17880506

7025
20 March 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Truth 0

Afterpiece Title: Triumph of Truth 1

Afterpiece Title: Triumph of Truth 2

Performance Comment: Tis Mighty Wine-Reinhold (Ottone, Handel); 'Tis Generous Wine-Kelly, Chorus (Dr Arnold); Like the raging Ocean-Mrs Crouch (Dr Arne); Shake the Dome-Double Chorus (Solomon, Handel); Prophetic visions-Kelly (Occasional Oratorio, Handel); The Glorious Day is won-Chorus of Soldiers (Handel); The Soldier tir'd-Mrs Ambrose ([Artaxerxes] Dr Arne); From the censer-Double Chorus (Solomon, Handel); Around the Fair attending-Miss Lockhart (Handel); On the charmer-Miss Hagley (Dr Arnold); Strong is the Heart-Chorus (Handel).
Cast
Role: The Glorious Day is won Actor: Chorus of Soldiers

Afterpiece Title: Triumph of Truth 3

Music: As17890311