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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.

10051
04 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Captain Cook

Afterpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: Patrick's Day. As17960401, but Corporal Flint-Davenport; song-_.

10052
27 June 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of The Purse; 2nd piece of Bannian Day, both advertised on playbill of 25 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gretna Green

Cast
Role: Captain Gorget Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: All in Good Humour

Cast
Role: Robbers Actor: Bannister, Davies, Abbot, Lyons

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Cast
Role: Robbers Actor: Bannister, Davies, Abbot, Lyons

10053
18 July 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of Bannian Day, advertised on playbill of 16 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Citizen

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Cast
Role: Lenitive Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Young Philpot Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Scout Actor: Bannister Jun.

10054
29 October 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Wedding Day, advertised on playbill of 28 Oct.] Ballet: (1st time), composed by Giacomo? Gentili [with music by Giuseppe Capelletti]. Receipts: #325 19s 6d. (222.15.6; 101.11.0; 1.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Cast
Role: Gradus Actor: Bannister Jun.

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost; or, Little Fanny's Love. The Lady of Dunblain-Mlle Parisot (By permission of the Proprietor of the king's Theatre); Jamie-Gentili; Glaude-Dubois; Saundy-Master Menage; Donald-Whitmell; Elpsa-Mrs Brooker; Fanny (with a Hornpipe)-Sga Bossi delCaro; Hornpipe-Sga Bossi delCaro; Villagers-Banks, Butler, Garman, Nicolini, Roffey, Thompson, Wells, Ms Barrett, Ms Bourk, Ms Brigg, Ms Byrne, Ms Daniels, Ms Thompson, Ms Haskey

10055
14 January 1797 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: In consequence of the very frequent abuses discovered to be practised at this Theatre, in respect to transferable Tickets of Admission, it has become indispensably requisite to adopt the former Regulation of having those Tickets left at the Doors on the Evening of Performance, and returned next day to the Owners of them

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Evelina

Dance: End I: Peggy's Love, as17961206; End Opera: Apollon Berger, as17970110

10056
18 February 1797 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: True Briton, 20 Feb.: On Saturday Mme Banti "received that day an account of the death of her mother." She sang throughout Act I, but "was unable to appear in the second, and the audience concurred in the suppression, for the evening, of the Second Act.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Evelina

Dance: As17970211

10057
27 March 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Mountaineers; afterpiece of The Follies of a Day, both advertised on playbill of 25 Mar.] Afterpiece: Engagement as 6 Mar. Receipts: #151 3s. 6d. (87.6.6; 60.5.0; 3.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Cast
Role: Leopold Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Cast
Role: Vapour Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Walter Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Japhis Actor: Bannister
Role: Sylvester Daggerwood Actor: Bannister Jun.

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17970104

10058
27 June 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Battle of Hexham, advertised on playbill of 26 June.] The Publick is respectfully informed that alterations are now making in The Irish Legacy: it will be in a few days represented for the second time. [But it was not acted again.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The London Hermit

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Cast
Role: Compton Actor: Bannister

10059
19 December 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 1, by John O'Keeffe. Larpent MS 1188; not published]: The Overture and Music by Attwood. European Magazine, Jan. 1798, p. 42: Written with allusion to Their Majesties' attendance at St. Paul's [on this day, at a thanksgiving service held in honor of the recent naval victories of Howe, St. Vincent and Duncan]. Receipts: #289 17s. (286.11; 3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Britains Brave Tars

Song: As17971102

10060
24 January 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [On this day Mrs Spencer was married to Pope (see 26 Jan.), but in mainpiece she is listed under her former name.] Receipts: #241 17s. (232.16; 9.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Quixotte

Cast
Role: warned from the Grotto of the Goddess Pleasure by Actor: they take shelter in one of the +East India Company's Warehouses, which on their being closely pursued, is transform'd into a Picturesque Chinese Apartment. In this country he is deprived, by an adverse Magician, of his Columbine

10061
07 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of England Preserv'd; afterpiece of A Day in Rome (recte At) and Raymond and Agnes, all advertised on playbill of 5 May.] Receipts: #100 17s. (98.0; 2.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Song: As17971102

10062
11 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The new Piece of A Day in Rome [advertised on playbill of 10 May] is obliged to be withdrawn till next season [see 11 Oct. 1798], on account of Fawcett's illness. [3rd piece in place of Botheration, advertised as above.] Receipts: #59 0s. 6d. (36.15.0; 22.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: England Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: In 3rd piece: Ballet, as17971013

Entertainment: Monologue. End 1st piece: An Address to the Audience, as17980209

10063
28 September 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mrs Johnson was from the Park Theatre NewYork.] Afterpiece: Compressed into Two Acts. "Munden's Sir Francis Wronghead was a very pleasing display of comicality; but he should have contented himself with what was set down by the author, without introducing his own common place allusions to the fashions of the present day" (Morning Herald, 29 Sept.). Receipts: #200 17s. 6d. (195.19.6; 4.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: Lord Townly-Pope; Manley-Murray; Sir Francis Wronghead-Munden; Count Basset-Clarke; Squire Richard-Knight; John Moody-Thompson; James-Abbot; Constable-Whitmore; Poundage-Rees; Lady Grace-Miss Chapman; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Davenport; Miss Jenny-Mrs Gibbs; Mytrilla-Mrs Watts; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Platt; Trusty-Mrs Litchfield; Lady Townly-Mrs Johnson (from the Theatre in America; 1st appearance on this stage). 1st appearance on this stage).

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

10064
25 October 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; M. INT 1, by Thomas John Dibdin. Prologue by Richard Cumberland (see text)]: The Overture and Music composed by Attwood, with some favorite Selections from the Works of Dibdin and Mazzinghi. Books of the Songs, including a descriptive Sketch of the Ballet, to be had at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 5 Nov. 1798: This Day is published The Mouth of the Nile (1s.). Receipts: #309 3s. 6d. (303.0.6; 6.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

10065
15 December 1798 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Medonte announced, but Morning Chronicle, 17 Dec.: By the sudden indisposition of Madame Banti, there was no opera on Saturday night. Ibid, 18 Dec.: Bills were posted up all over London in the forenoon, and a respectful card sent to the house of each subscriber. Morning Herald, 18 Dec., carries a statement signed by Pere Elisee saying that "about two o'clock, Saturday morning last, I was called out of my bed by a message that Mrs Banti was taken dangerously ill," that she so continues, and that as her physician he is "of opinion it will not be safe for her to quit her sick bed for several days yet to come.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

10066
22 February 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea Grand Selection 0

Music: End I: Ode on St. Cecilia's Day-[(never before performed text by the Rev. Samuel Wesley]), set to music by Samuel Wesley; Introductory to the Ode: [Handel's 3rd organ concerto-Samuel Wesley

Performance Comment: Cecilia's Day-[(never before performed text by the Rev. Samuel Wesley]), set to music by Samuel Wesley; Introductory to the Ode: [Handel's 3rd organ concerto-Samuel Wesley.
Cast
Role: ecilia's Day Actor:

10067
30 November 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; D 5, by Elizabeth Inchbald, based on Das Schreibepult; oder, Die Gefahren der Jugend, by August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue. Prologue by Charles Moore (MS annotation by J. P. Kemble in Kemble-Devonshire copy in Huntington Library); Epilogue by John Taylor (see text)]: With New Dresses and Scenes. Morning Chronicle, 17 Dec. 1799: This day is published The Wise Man of the East (price not listed). Receipts: #323 14s. 6d. (321.12.6; 2.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wise Man Of The East

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Munden, Knight, H. Johnston, Murray, Davenport, Waddy, Thompson, Claremont, Simmons, Atkins, Abbot, Klanert, Curties, Mrs H. Johnston, Miss Murray, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Johnston, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Mattocks, [Cast from text (G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799): Claransforth-Lewis; Ava Thoanoa-Munden; Timothy Starch-Knight; Ensign Metland-Murray; Bankwell-Davenport; Lawley-Waddy; Sir Richard Chances-Claremont; Quaker Servant-Simmons; Servant to Ava-Abbot; Waitby-Klanert; Servant to Lady Mary-Curties; Ruth Starch-Mrs H. Johnston; Ellen Metland-Miss Murray; Lady Mary Diamond-Mrs Davenport; Mrs Metland-Mrs Johnson; Rachel Starch-Mrs Mattocks; unassigned-Thompson, Atkins, Mrs Whitmore; Prologue-H. Johnston; Epilogue-Mrs H. Johnston. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 11 performances only (see17991228).]These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 11 performances only (see17991228).]

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

10068
29 March 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325 .

10069
31 March 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Management

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325 .

Music: Afterpiece: The Harp-Weippert. [This was included in all subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [This was included in all subsequent performances.]

10070
01 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325 .

10071
03 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325 .

10072
14 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325but Welsh Men & Women-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Hermione

10073
16 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325 .

10074
18 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325 .

10075
21 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: St

Performance Comment: David's Day. As18000325 .