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13629 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.

11101
23 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hilliard. Charges #60. Deficiency to Miss Hilliard #28 7s. covered by #55 8s. from tickets. Paid Servandoni as an advance #5 5s. Receipts: #31 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian King Of Portugal

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: Dutch Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; III: Grand Scots Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; V: Minuet, Louvre-Cooke, Miss Hillyard

11102
26 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Raftor, Reinhold and Miss Pitt. Rec'd cash #54 16s., plus #83 from tickets. Total #137 16s. Paid Mrs Reynolds for wax and brick dust 3s. 11d. (Treasurer's Book). Last time of performing the Afterpiece this season. Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats

Song: IIf God could lengthen life forever-Reinhold; (by desire) Honour and Arms from the Oratorio Sampson,-Reinhold

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Maltere; Tambourine-Miss Foulcade

11103
27 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Liviez (Ballet Master) and Taswell. Paid young Cross for dancing 5s., and same to young Shawford. Allowed Leviez for tickets as per agreement #15; Norton 3 chorus last night 6 this #2 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Afterpiece: By Desire. Tickets deliver'd out by Taswell will be taken. Receipts: #150 (Cross). [Income missing from Treasurer's Book.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats

Dance: III: L'Entree de Flore, as17491024

11104
19 October 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these two years. [See 4 April 1749.] Miss Jane Cibber play'd Alicia-quite in old style, not lik'd at all, tho' not hiss'd-given out again and great hiss'd & so not done ($Cross). [The Author of the Midwife (No 1, final Page) reported]: Now I am speaking of Miss Cibber, I must do her the justice to observe that she play'd the part much better than cou'd be expected from one of her years and practice; and if a proper regard is paid to her modesty and Merit, I make no doubt she will become an exceeding good player. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Entertainment: EEpilogue upon Two Prologues-Mrs Clive

11105
09 November 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by His Majesty's command. [John Pringle wrote to Blayney Townley on 14 Nov.: Great are the disputes at present between the rival theatres, vieing with each other in different characters which afford unusual entertainment to all frequenting the stage. His Majesty on Saturday night paid his first visit to Covent Garden in perference to the opera at Drury Lane, when Lady Townley by Pegg Woffington gave him great pleasure, with the addition of unusual huzzas in a part of the Miller of Mansfield." -Historical MS Commission, 10th Report, Appendix, Part IV (London 1887), p. 257.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

11106
26 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #55 16s. 6d. Paid Phillips for dancing in the Sorcerer #2 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Merlin Harlequin Skeleton

11107
11 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Containing the Distresses and Death of King Henry VIv ; the Artful Acquisition of the Crown by Richardv ; the Cruel Murder of the young King Edward Vv and his brother in the Tower; the Landing of the Earl of Richmondv ; and the Death of Richard in the memorable Battle of Bosworth Fieldv ; being the last that was fought between the Houses of York and Lancasterv ; with many other historical passages [a regular notice appearing with performances of this play]. Receipts: #118 18s. 6d. [Paid to] Lee one third of the surplus of this night's receipts over the charge of #100, #3 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: Lucas, Miss Hilliard

11108
12 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #59 18s. Paid Meares, Taylor, a bill for making Richard's Dress for Lee...#3 0s. 11d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

11109
28 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [See Cross note under dl.] Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #74 15s. Paid Stede a Bill for writing Parts, #6 15s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

11110
07 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #155 6s. Paid Barry one third of the surplus of the night's receipts above the #80 allow'd for the charge: #25 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

11111
10 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #106 11s. Paid Barry one third of surplus above the #80 allow'd for charges: #8 17s. (Account Book). [House, after meeting Saturday's payroll, is #205 3s. 2d., in the red again.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

11112
12 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #98 3s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third of surplus above the #80 allow'd for charges: #6 1s. 2d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: TheLover His Own Rival

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17571013

11113
14 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #109 14s. (Account Book). [Barry paid his one-third of the surplus above the #80 house charge: #9 18s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius Or The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: Granier, Mrs Granier

11114
16 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #87 10s. 6d. (Account Book). [Barry paid his one third of surplus of receipts above #80 house Charges: #2 10s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

11115
20 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #146 17s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third of surplus above the #80 House Charges: #22 5s. 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17571013

11116
27 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #122 7s. 6d. Paid Barry his his one third of surplus above the #80 House Charges: #14 2s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

11117
10 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #109 9s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third surplus above the #80 House Charges: #9 16s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17571013

11118
20 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 6s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third of surplus above the #80 House Charges: #10 2s. 2d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

11119
27 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [by Elijah Fenton]: Not acted these 10 years. [See 12 March 1745.] Receipts: #110 15s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third of the surplus above the #80 House Charges: #10 5s. 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

11120
28 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Present the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Edward, Lady Augusta, and Princess Elizabeth. Receipts: #219 1s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third of the surplus above #80 House Charges: #46 7s. 2d. Gave the yeoman of the Prince and Princess #1 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Ballet: The Judgment of Paris. As17571217

Dance: As17571217

11121
13 February 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #184 17s. 6d. Paid Thos Luppino for dancing dresses for Dioclesian, #25 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

11122
18 February 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #112 13s. 6d. Barry's 1!3 of profits came to #10 17s. Paid Wm. Blackmore for sundries for Dioclesian, #11 18s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

11123
04 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Last Time of performing it. Receipts: #153 14s. 6d. Barry's 113 of surplus came to #24 11s. 6d. Paid George Lambert (scene painter) 3 months' salary #25. The following additional Renters came in this night at 1 share each: Thomas Fludyer, John Calcraft, Charles Lanoe, and Samuel Berkeley. Richard Vincent Sr bought in at 2 shares (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

11124
25 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Costollo and Mrs Green. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #56 0s. 6d. Charges: #63. Deficiency of #3 9s. 9d. each covered by income from tickets: Costollo, #92 17s. (boxes 72; pit 367; gallery 198); Mrs Green, #37 7s. (boxes 55; pit 106; gallery 77). Paid Robertson for working the Ostridge in [Harlequin] Sorcerer 6 nights at 2s. 6d. per night, 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Dance: A Tambourine-Miss Vallois

11125
28 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall and Miss Ferguson. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #37 1s. Charges: #63. Dunstall paid the whole deficiency of #25 19s. from his tickets: #140 5s. (boxes 108; pit 685; gallery 105). Miss Ferguson cleared from her tickets #20 15s. (boxes 1; pit 68; gallery 103) (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: A Tambourine-Miss Vallois; a Comic Ballet-Guerin, Lucas, Rochford, Dumay, Gosly, Miss Dawson, Miss Viviez, Mrs Guerin, Mlle Jansolin