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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C Bannister"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C Bannister")') 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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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.

9476
10 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Increase of a Fund establish'd for the support of Decayed Musicians, or their families. Pit and boxes to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this day, at the Office, at half a guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. The Galleries will be open'd at Four o'clock, Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at exactly Six o'clock. Tickets deliver'd out to the subscribers of this Charity will admit one person into any part of the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Music

9477
17 April 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: 1 Benefit Paget. Tickets given for Comus taken this day, Several Gentlemen desiring to see him as Falstaff. [Originally scheduled for 4 April were Comus and a new Farce The Biter Bit; or, Vintner in the Suds.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Dance (his last acting this season); Vernon-Paget; Hotspur-Goodfellow.

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Miller of Mansfield

9478
24 April 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Berry and Havard. Afterpiece: By Desire. The Anatomist appeared in the advance notice as afterpiece for this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: I: Sga Bettini; III: Muilment

Song: II, IV: Lowe

9479
06 May 1745 @ May Fair

Event Comment: HHussey's Booth. To act every day from noon to 10 p.m. during the time of the Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore With Humours Of Capt

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Harlequin

9480
22 October 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainp1ece, a Comedy written by Colley Cibber, Poet Laureate. Not acted in 30 years [see 18 Oct. 1718. An Epilogue for Mrs Woffington in the Character of Brittania was sent this day to the Licenser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Dance: V: Muilment

9481
05 December 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece Written by Shakespear. On Monday next The Recruiting Officer, The whole receipt of the house to be subscribed to the Veteran Scheme at Guildhall. [This advertisement was carried on the two following days.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: M Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Song: V: The Subscription-Lowe

9482
06 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd out for this day will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: As17451203

9483
09 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: There will be no play 'till tomorrow on account of one to be performed this evening at the other theatre; the receipt of which is to be subscribed to the Veteran Scheme at the Guildhall. We hear Mrs Cibber is soon to perform the part of Polly, three nights at cg, and the Proprietor has agreed to lend his house, free of all charges; and we hear the company will contribute their pay on those days, that the performance may be entirely charge-free; the receipts of each night to be subscribed to the Veteran's scheme at Guildhall

Performances

9484
19 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Yesterday being the Fast Day appointed by Authority the same was observed in the cities of London and Westminster with strict Solemnity

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

9485
10 January 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [This day H. L. in an article in the Westminster Journal (quoted in the Gentlemen's Magazine, p. 21) offered a plan for taxing theatre tickets, as a source of government revenue, on a pro-rated basis--Box ticket a stamp tax of 1s; Pit a Stamp of 9d; 1st Gallery 6d; Upper Gallery 3d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: III: Lowe; IV: New Duet-Mrs Clive, Lowe

Dance: IV: Tambourine-Miss Mechel

9486
11 March 1746 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Note, Madem. Violette, a New Dancer from Vienna, will perform this day for the first time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artamene

9487
14 June 1746 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The Subscribers to the Opera are desir'd to send their Silver Tickets on Saturday next, and the three succeeding Days of Performance, to the Opera Office, where a Half Guinea Ticket extraordinary will be delivered to each, or a proportionable Part of Money return'd as Equivalent for four representations, which the Season already too far advanced, cannot admit of being exhibited, thro' the absolute Necessity there was of postponing the proper Time of beginning the Opera. Forty-Two Representations are past

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigone

9488
18 August 1746 @ Southwark

Event Comment: Benefit Phillips, former Harlequin to the Old House, now a Prisoner. [Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library. Performance not named, but bill says This Day.

Performances

9489
04 October 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The first payroll of the season, covering three days of acting, amounted to #69 8s. 6d (30 men--#35 14s.; 24 women--#26 10s; 10 servants' accounts including an unspecified number of dressers and charwomen--#7 4s. 6d.).] Receipts: #42. 18s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved Or A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

9490
08 November 1746 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Subscription tickets will be delivered out this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annibale In Capua

Dance:

9491
29 November 1746 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Attendance will be given this and every Day from Ten in the Morning 'till Three in the Afternoon, at the Opera House in the Haymarket, in order to take in Subscriptions for the Second Subscription to Operas; and whereas the number of Representations for the first Subscription has not been compleated; This is to give notice to the Subscribers, that by sending to the Office, they will have the Money for the deficient Number of Representations returned them; or if they please to go on with the Second Subscription, the Deficiency of the first which ends this Night will be made up to them in the Price of the Tickets for the Second Subscription

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annibale In Capua

Dance:

9492
14 November 1747 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day, at the said Office at Half a Guinea apiece. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command no Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery will be open at 4 p.m. Pit and Boxes at 5 p.m. To begin at 6 p.m. [This notice regularly repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus

9493
26 December 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Afterpiece had been advertised on two previous days to be the Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace or Harlequin Skeleton

9494
26 February 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Person to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day, at the Office in Covent Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each. First Galley, 5s. Upper Gallery, 3s. 6d. The Galleries, to be open'd at Four, Pit and Boxes at Five. To Begin at Half an Hour after Six. [Customary notice for oratorios. It will not be repeated further.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Afterpiece Title: a Ca Concerto

9495
05 April 1748 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Fund established for the Support of Decay'd Musicians or their Families. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. Gallery opened at Four o'clock, Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin exactly at Six. N.B.: Tickets delivered to Subscribers to this Charity will admit one Person to any part of the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainment Of Music

9496
15 April 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Second Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scorpion

Afterpiece Title: Punchs Defeat

Dance: As17480414

9497
16 April 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Third day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scorpion

Afterpiece Title: Punchs Defeat

Dance: As17480414

9498
19 April 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Second Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

9499
20 April 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Third Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

9500
22 April 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Fifth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures