SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,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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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.
Event Comment: @108 tickets at 10s.108 tickets at 10s. 6d. #56 14s.@128 tickets at 5s. #40 15s.@177 tickets at 3s. 6d. #30 19s. 6d.@413 persons present.@Receipts: #128 8s. 6d. (Account Book).@ Paid renters this night #10 (Account Book). Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Paradise Lost

Music: As17610206

Event Comment: @120 tickets at 10s.120 tickets at 10s. 6d. #63@152 tickets at 5s. #38@159 tickets at 3s. 6d. #27 16s. 6d.@ 411 persons present. Receipts #108 16s.@ Paid Renters #10. (Account Book). Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zimri

Music: As17610206

Event Comment: Boxes #55 17s. 6d. Macklin's fifth above charges came to #20 15s. 6d. Paid Rich on account #421 (Account Book). Receipts: #166 17s. 5d. (Account 8ook)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: As17601216

Event Comment: @322 tickets at 10s.322 tickets at 10s. 6d. #169 1s.@326 tickets at 5s. #81 10s.@344 tickets at 3s. 6d. #60 4s.@992 present.@Receipts #310 15s.@ Paid renters #10 (Account Book). Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: As17610206

Event Comment: Boxes #37 15s. Paid Ledlay for 10 doz. wax candles #15. 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #156 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: @540 tickets at 10s.540 tickets at 10s. 6d. #283 10s.@429 tickets at 5s. #107 5s.@472 tickets at 3s. 6d. #82 12s.@1441 present.@Receipts: #473 7s.@ Paid renters #10 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: As17610206

Event Comment: @562 tickets at 10s.562 tickets at 10s. 6d. #295 1s.@428 tickets at 5s. #107@496 tickets at 3s. 6d. #86 16s.@1486 present.@Receipts: #488 11s.@ Paid Renters #10 (Account Book). Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: As17610206

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Receipts: #42 4s. 6d. plus #192 2s. from Tickets (Box 345; Pit 543; Gallery 244). Bought of Lord Holderness's Valet by Blackmore 5 ensembles of clothing amounting to #49 10s. Paid Mrs Marg. Lamb Interest due on #315 due 8 March last: #15 (Account Book). Charges: #66 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Event Comment: Boxes #19 10s. [Macklin seems to have received nothing for this performance as receipts did not equal the house charges of #63.] Paid Rich on account #100 (Account Book). [The treasurer's balance at beginning of Benefit season, 24 March, was #731 7s. 10d. It had now dropped to #201 17s. 2d.] Receipts: #55 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Ballet: TThe Hungarian Gambols. As17610309

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Green, (box keepers). Receipts: #22 10s. plus income from tickets: Evans #102 9s. (Box 278; Pit 151; Gallery 103); Green #90 14s. (Box 259; Pit 147; Gallery 39). Paid to Evans and Green #10 each for attendance at the Boxes this season (Account Book). Charges: #70 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Boxes #4 2s. 6d. (Account Book). [i.e., only 16 persons were in the Boxes, and the 2s. 6d. indicates that at least one occupant came in after the third act and paid only half price.] Receipts: #26 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Income from Boxes #15 10s. Paid Whiteford, Wardrobe Keeper, six months' salary due 24 Sept. #20. Receipts: #121 7s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Income from Boxes #36 2s. 6d. Paid Richard Vincent on account for the Trumpeter's clothing to be used in Coronation, #105. Receipts: #130 4s. 6d. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Income from Boxes #83 10s. Present Their Majesties, Lady Augusta; Prince William Henry, Prince Henry Frederick, Paid Vincent in full for 10 Lac'd Coats...8 Trumpet Banners and 2 Kettle drum banners #73 10s. Receipts: #232 11s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Income from Boxes #14. Salary list paid with additions of 10 Oct. #251 14s. plus #24 15s. for servants. Receipts: #79 18s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: EEvery Man in His Humour deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Dunstall (playbill). T. Lownds paid #23 10s. for a one-eighth share of the copyright for Bickerstaff's Maid of the Mill (BM Add. MS 38730 fol. 104b) in anticipation of its stage success. [It was first performed at cg 31 Jan. 1765.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17641015; End: La Femme Maitresse, as17641004

Event Comment: Benefit for the increase of a Fund established for the Support of Decay'd Musicians and their Families. [The Governors announced #622 4s. paid out during the previous year.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: [M$Mrs King was formerly Miss Baker (Genest, V, 115).] Paid Watson and Smith (Box Office Keepers) #20 (Drury Lane Treasurer's Book). [This was operating cash, returned 4 June 1767.] Receipts: #135 14s. 6d. (Drury Lane Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular Desire. Paid Ben Johnson's Head a bill #1 6s. 11d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #192 4s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Ackman
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 30 Dec. 1762.] Paid Richard Highland a bill of #3 5s. 5d. for the Wardrobe Dinners (Account Book). Receipts: #222 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part Ii With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid printer's 3 bills...#20 9s.; Mrs Hillman for women's cloathes #23 2s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #116 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Ackman
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Ben Johnson's Head a bill #1 15s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #103 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Cast
Role: Officer Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Ackman

Dance: II: The Vintage, as17661011

Event Comment: Books of the Burletta to be had at the Theatre. Paid Thos. Williamson for 4 pounds spermeceti candles 7s. (Account Book). Receipts: #133 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid Ben Johnson's Head a bill #1 9s 5d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #150 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Ackman

Dance: II: The Vintage, as17661011

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Paid Jones, coal merchant, a bill #104 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #85 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: The Village Romps, as17661008