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3202 results for: Keyword - Ackman</i> (<i>Public Advertiser</i>). This <span class=
We found 2255 matches on Event Comments, 1015 matches on Performance Comments, 88 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

651
23 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, as altered by Thomas Hull]. Translated from [Iphigenie en aulide, by] Racine by Boyer. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 18 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Barry, No. 26, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #273 19s. 6d. (157.18.6; tickets: 116.1.0) (charge: #70 17s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Iphigenia Or The Victim

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: As17771222

Song: V: will be introduced a Sacrifice-;, with new Music by Fisher-; the vocal parts and chorus-Miss Brown, others

652
30 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis at his house in Broad court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #194 16s. (143.9; tickets: 51.7) (charge: #66 13s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage

Performance Comment: Biron (1st time)-Lewis; Count Baldwin-Clarke; Carlos-Whitfield; Belford-L'Estrange; Sampson-Dunstall; Friend-Smith; Pedro-Bates; Child-Miss Francis; Villeroy (1st time)-Wroughton; Nurse-Mrs Poussin; Isabella-Mrs Barry (1st appearance in that character at this theatre).

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: 2nd piece: Aldridge. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Song: III: Epithalamium-; the vocal parts-Robson, Miss Dayes

653
31 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. Public Advertiser, 7 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Henderson, No. 21 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden. [Henderson, under his stage name of Courtney, had 1st acted Macbeth at Bath, 12 Nov. 1772.] Receipts: #275 18s. [156.2; 9.1; 0.0; tickets: 110.15) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: As17780324

Song: In: the original Music, as17780105, but _Edwards, Philimore, Mrs +Gaudry, Mrs +Wrighten

654
31 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Leoni. Public Advertiser, 19 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Leoni, No. 34, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #234 8s. 6d. (174.19.6; tickets: 59.9.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17770926, but Young Meadows-Leoni (1st appearance in that character); Deborah-A Gentlewoman (1st appearance on this stage [unidentified]); Margery-Mrs Wilson; Lucinda (1st time)-Miss Dayes.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17771222

655
02 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Vernon. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Vernon at Mahon's, the corner of Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #222 19s. (108.19.0; 18.17.6; 0.6.6; tickets: 94.16.0) (charge: #65 1s.). Account-Book totals the charge as follows: Ord[inary] Charge #64 4s.; Sup[ernumeraries] 3s.; K[ettle] D[rum] 5s.; 6 Ext[ra] Carp[enter]s 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor

656
04 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Clarke, Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #219 4s. (124.0; tickets: 95.4) (charge: #66 9s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

657
06 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Public Advertiser, 21 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Dodd at his house in New Ormond-street, Queen's-square. Receipts: #245 7s. 6d. (102.15.0; 19.9.0; 0.7.6; tickets: 122.16.0) (charge: #68 19s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

658
07 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Webster. Public Advertiser, 19 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Webster, No. 74, Great Queen-street. Receipts: #227 17s. 6d. (120.10.0; 22.0.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 85.7.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Song: Several newairs (never performed) by Michael Arne-for the characters of Cymon and Sylvia, on this occasion

659
07 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. Public Advertiser, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Aickin at his house in Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #128 5s. (91.8; tickets: 36.17) (charge: #67 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: As17780121

660
09 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. Public Advertiser, 21 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, at Pope's, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #265 5s. (94.8; 17.7; 0.8; tickets: 153.2) (charge: #69 1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Dance: End II: Slingsby's grand ballet The Savage Hunters, as17780324but Fitzgerald

661
09 April 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Freeman [who, as Chamont, is identified in Public Advertiser, 7 Apr.]. Tickets to be had of Freeman, Vine-street, Piccadilly; of Massey, at Marshall's, Bedford-court, Covent Garden. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Entertainment: Monologue. End I afterpiece: an Epilogue-Master Benson

662
11 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. Public Advertiser, 30 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mattocks at his house in Covent Garden. Receipts: #146 17s. 6d. (112.3.6; tickets: 34.14.0) (charge: #69 18s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

663
20 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Samuel Jackson Pratt. Not in Larpent MS; not published. Prologue printed in Westminster Magazine, Apr. 1778, p.218; author unknown]. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #230 16s. 6d. (131.6.0; 25.4.0; 0.7.6; tickets: 73.19.0) (charge: #66 9s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Joseph Andrews

Dance: As17780109

664
21 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Moody. Public Advertiser, 16 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Moody at the New Inn Coffee-house, Wych-street. Receipts: #173 6s. 6d. [98.17.0; 12.18.6; 0.8.0; tickets: 61.3.0) [charge: #66 16s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor

Dance: As17780409

665
22 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. Mainpiece: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon. [This was included in both subsequent performances.] Afterpiece [1st time; C 1, author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of plot in London Chronicle, 23 Apr.]. Public Advertiser, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bulkley, No. 10, New Ormond-street. Receipts: #195 13s. 6d. [166.16.6; tickets: 28.17.0) (charge: #73 7s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Dutiful Deception

Dance: New Dance, Allemande-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

666
23 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [In afterpiece Prologue by David Garrick.] Public Advertiser, 7 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Palmer at his house in Bow-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #132 16s. 6d. (55.15.0; 26.3.6; 0.8.0; tickets: 50.10.0) (charge: #75 0s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love Or The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Dance: As17780422

667
24 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Public Advertiser, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Lessingham at her house, the corner of Percy-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #160 7s. (100.18; tickets: 59.9) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End III: The Irish Lilt-Aldridge, Miss Valois; End IV: as17780421

668
25 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Public Advertiser, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister at Starzaker's, the Upper End of Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #246 12s. 6d. [77.0.0; 13.1.6; 0.10.0; tickets: 156.1.0) (charge: #65 17s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End II: The Sailors' Revels-Blurton

669
25 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brown. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Midas [announced on playbill ff 24 Apr.] cannot be performed on account of Wilson's sudden illness. Tickets delivered for Love Finds the Way will be admitted, that Opera being unavoidably postponed on account of Mrs Farrell's Indisposition. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Brown, No. 10, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #150 18s. 6d. (89.17.6; tickets: 61.1.0) (charge: #67 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17780424

670
27 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Hopkins, prompter, and Mrs Hopkins. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Afterpiece: A Dramatic Entertainment (in two parts) of Singing, Dancing and Dialogue in Honour of Shakespeare. In which a Pageant. The Music by Dibdin. Public Advertiser, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Hopkins, No. 7, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #280 7s. (169.5; 21.0; 1.2; tickets: 89.0) (charge: #64 4s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

671
27 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Afterpiece 1st time; F 2, by Ursula Agnes Booth, based on the same, by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. The playbill lists Death in place of Lee Lewes, but he 'Was not to be found...Hull begged permission for Lee Lewes to read Death's part in his own undress, which [was] granted" (London Chronicle, 28 Apr.).]. Books of the Entertainment to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 30 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Quick, No. 15, Drury-lane. Receipts: #262 2s. (157.2; tickets: 105.0) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Little French Lawyer

Dance: End monologue: The Poney Races, as17780421

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Cunning Isaac will relate his Escape from the Duenna [with a new song]-Quick

672
29 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee Lewes. Public Advertiser, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Lee Lewes, Charlotte-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #205 6s. (82.16; tickets: 122.10) (charge: #66 9s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Entertainment: Monologue.As17780427

673
01 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Miss Hopkins'. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2 (?), by Thomas Holcroft. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: The Music [by William Shield (European Magazine, Jan. 1782, p.59)] entirely new. Public Advertiser, 15 Apr. Tickets to be had of the Miss Hopkins', No. 7, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #129 8s. 6d. (61.15.0; 24.5.6; 0.1.0; tickets: 43.7.0) (charge: #66 11s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Crisis or Love and Fear

Dance: As17780109

674
01 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Farrell. Public Advertiser, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Farrell, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #266 3s. 6d. (135.1.6; tickets: 131.2.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End: The Poney Races, as17780421

675
02 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Walpole. Public Advertiser, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Walpole, No. 150, Drury-lane. Receipts: #153 5s. (56.19; 26.13; 0.12; tickets: 69.1) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771111; End: Hornpipe-Miss Walpole; End I afterpiece: The Sailors' Revels, as17780425

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