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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.

10351
18 February 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's 2nd benefit [but no announcement of it in General Advertiser]. Charges #60 (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #174 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

10352
21 February 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's 3rd benefit. [No notice in the General Advertiser.] Charges #60. Receipts: #199 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

10353
07 March 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: On Monday will be publish'd The Suspicious Husband, a Comedy as it is acted at Covent Garden. Written by Dr Hoadly. Published for J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper in the Strand.--General Advertiser. Receipts: #114 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Phebe or The Beggars Wedding

10354
13 March 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [No performance listed in Account Books, Egerton 2268. General Advertiser missing, but Occasional Oratorio was scheduled to be given in the advance notice for 12 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Occasional Oratorio

10355
16 March 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Delane. Mainpiece: As written by Shakespear. Tickets deliver'd for Monday the 9th will be taken. Tickets to be had of Delane at his lodgings at the Unicorn in New Exchange Row in the Strand. Places of Hobson at the stage door. There is now in rehearsal at the Theatre Royal [dl] and speedily will be acted, a new Petit Piece in imitation of that species of writing on the French Theatre call'd The Suspicious Husband Criticiz'd; or the Plague of Envy (General Advertiser). [A Folger edition of 1750 entitled Chorus for Shakespear's Tragedy of King John lists songs by Sullivan, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Storer, and Mrs Mozeen; the play had no other performance at a London theatre in the interim between 1747 and 1750.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: As17470314

10356
23 March 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Pritchard. [Receipts: #61 6s., plus #141 8s. from tickets, amounting to a house of #202 14s. without Stage (Account Books, Egerton 2268), i.e., perhaps, without counting income from those invited by Mrs Pritchard to sit on the stage.] Note: The Amphitheatre used on the stage at Benefits will be enclosed and divided into distinct Boxes, with a ceiling and illuminated; in the same manner as those in Front of the House. Ladies are desired to send their servants by Three.--General Advertiser. [House charges were #60.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17461231

10357
24 March 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Macklin. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. The Farce never before acted. Tickets to be had of Macklin at his House in Bow St; and of Hobson at the stage door where places may be taken for the Boxes.--General Advertiser. [Afterpiece by Charles Macklin.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband Criticized or The Plague of Envy

10358
09 April 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Prince and Princess of Wales. A Free Benefit for Quin. Receipts: #88 13s., plus #136 15s. from tickets. [Garrick had written Quin he was too ill to play in the mainpiece but would act in his farce. Notice of 23 March about Amphitheatre repeated.] Tickets deliver'd out for 9 March will be taken. To prevent mistakes none will be admitted into the Boxes but by tickets deliver'd by Quin, and at the Office in the Box Lobby.--General Advertiser. If any Gentlemen or Ladies shall be displeased with the alteration in the Performance of the Play [i.e., Garrick's absence] the money shall be return'd.--Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17461231

10359
24 April 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [G+General Advertiser, 20 April: The Play of Henry V and the new farce which were to have been acted of Friday the 24th for Mrs Macklin's benefit are necessarily deferred until farther notice--which will be inserted in this paper.

Performances

10360
30 April 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mills. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Letter in the General Advertiser in appreciation of the elegant fireworks displayed at the New Wells, Goodman's Fields, this evening.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband Criticised

Song: I: Cantata-Sullivan; IV: Lowe

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; V: Comic Dance, as17470410

10361
06 May 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Performance Comment: As17470425 but Moody-Winstone. (General Advertiser) .

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

10362
12 May 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Curryer, Fryar, Delahyde, and Shawford (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Flora

10363
09 September 1747 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Lee and Yeates' Great Tiled Booth on the Bowling Green. A Droll [long synopsis given]. To begin at Twelve o'clock Noon. [Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d.] The Til'd Booth is the largest and most Commodious in the Fair. The Stage is very long and sufficient to show the Burning of Troyv to the Greatest Advantage (Daily Advertiser). [Notice repeated 10, 11 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Troy

Music: A Grand Band

10364
10 September 1747 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Godwin's Booth (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin Or The Miser Outwitted

Dance:

Entertainment: Fireworks-

10365
14 September 1747 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: By Desire, at the Great Til'd Booth, Bowling Green, a Concert, etc. To begin at seven o'clock (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite Or The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: Cunningham, Adams, Miss Lincoln, Mrs Bullock

Dance: Cunningham, Adams, Miss Lincoln, Mrs Bullock

10366
16 September 1747 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: A concert, etc. at the Great Tiled Booth. Benefit Yeates Jun. and Mrs Warner (his sister). Prices: 2s., 1s., 6d. To begin at six o'clock (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

10367
24 September 1747 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the New Theatre, Bowling Green. Benefit for Morrill (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Trick upon Trick or Harlequin Statue

Dance: SScaramouch Dance-Phillips

10368
24 September 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: To the Author of the General Advertiser: Sir: Several Parodies on the favourite Soliloquy in Hamlet having appear'd lately, and all of the serious and grave Kind; the following Attempt in Burlesque, if you think it will be agreeable to the Publick, is at their and your Service: Yours, Rigdum Funnidos. @To drink, or not to Drink? that is the Question--@Whether 'tis easier for a Man, to suffer@The Pangs and Horrors of Outrageous Thirst;@Or boldly venture on a Sea of Liquor.... Receipts: #140 (Cross); #111 19s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband Or A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

10369
26 September 1747 @ The Tiled Booth Blackheath

Event Comment: At the Tiled Booth, Black heath. Lee and Yeates will perform a Droll, During the Time of the Fair. This Droll was performed at Bartholomew Fair and Southwark Fair with Universal Applause. The Machinery is inexpressibly Fine, especially the Temple Scene and the Burning of Troyv (Daily Advertiser). [Prices as 9 Sept. Notice repeated 29, 30 Sept., 1, 2 Oct.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Troy

10370
05 October 1747 @ Southwark

Event Comment: A concert, etc. at the New Theatre, Bowling Green. Benefit for Phillips (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: A New Pantomime

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Phillips

10371
08 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Garrick being disabled by illness from speaking the Prologue when it was demanded, hopes this publication will be consider'd as a proof of his desire to compensate the disappointment (Daily Advertiser). Receipts: #120 (Cross); #113 0s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albumazar

10372
22 October 1747 @ Southwark

Event Comment: A concert, etc. at the New Theatre, Bowling Green. Benefit for Sedgwick (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: A New Pantomime

Song:

Dance:

10373
09 December 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command (General Advertiser). King & Daughters? (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross); #169 13s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Dance: III: Dutch Dance, as17471128

10374
11 December 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. General Advertiser: As the Publick has often desir'd to see Mrs Cibber in the Part of Polly, and Mrs Clive in that of Lucy, the Beggar's Opera will be perform'd (with the usual Dances) Tomorrow at Drury Lane. Receipts: #130 (Cross); #132 12s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

10375
26 December 1747 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: We hear the King will be at the Opera (news column, General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus