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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.

1176
25 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. [Author of 1st Prologue unknown. 2nd Prologue by James Cobb.] Public Advertiser, 31 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #297 1s. 6d. (162.4.0; 13.13.6; 0.6.0; tickets: 120.18.0) (charge: #109 3s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Transformation Or The Manager An Actor In Spite Of Himself

Performance Comment: Clerville, Waiter, Hair@dresser, Musician, Machinist, Woman@dresser, Prompter, Poet, Publican-Bannister Jun.; Manager-Barrymore; Prologue-Bannister Jun.
Cast
Role: Publican Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Strangers at Home

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Song: End 2nd piece: Stand to your Guns-Bannister

Entertainment: After Singing: various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, -Bannister Jun

1177
25 April 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Mainpiece: Written by Richard Cumberland, Esq. Not acted these 10 years [acted 15 Jan. 1778]. Public Advertiser, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren at his House in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #303 7s. (90.8.6; 5.14.6; tickets: 207.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: End: Leap Year-[see17861006]

1178
27 April 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Pope. Afterpiece: Not acted these 7 years [not acted since 1 Feb. 1777]. Public Advertiser, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Pope at his house in Half-moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #207 4s. 6d. (132.6.0; 2.1.6; tickets: 72.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: Leap Year, as17870425; II afterpiece: a Mock Minuet-Ryder, Mrs Pope

Song: II: a Glee-King, Darley, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Kennedy

1179
28 April 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. Receipts: #282 2s. (135.6; 2.15; tickets: 144.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

1180
03 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces Isabella, with Mrs Siddons as Isabella. But she was indisposed, and "the play was changed into The Winter's Tale" (World, 4 May).] Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Charles Stuart. Prologue by the author (Public Advertiser, 17 May)]. Receipts: #137 17s. 6d. (93.2.0; 43.7.6; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Distressd Baronet

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Palmer, Suett, Packer, Waldron, Burton, Wilson, Jones, Alfred, Spencer, Baddeley, Mrs Wilson, Miss Collins, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Hopkins. [Cast from text (J. Debrett, 1787): Sir George Courteous-Palmer; Pop-Suett; Prywell-Packer; La Roche-Waldron; Aminadab-Burton; Porpoise-Wilson; Servants-Jones, Alfred [in text: Newbold], Spencer; Quirk-Baddeley; Sophia-Mrs Wilson; Ninny-Miss Collins; Lady-Miss Tidswell; Mrs Termagant-Mrs Hopkins; Maid-Miss Dancer; Prologue-Bannister Jun. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

1181
03 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy, [Miss Reynolds is identified in London Chronicle, 4 May. Afterpiece in place of The Cheats of Scapin, announced on playbill of 2 May.] Tickets delivered for the 13th of April will be admitted. Public Advertiser, 24 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kennedy at her house, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #312 6s. (181.8; 1.5; tickets: 129.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Afterpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

1182
04 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Forster. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Forster, the corner of Castle-street, opposite Hart-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #174 4s. 6d. (39.15.0; 21.3.0; 1.0.6; tickets: 112.6.0) (charge: #105 16s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Music: Afterpiece: Overture by Shield-; Duett on Two Flutes-Mr Forster

1183
07 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons [whose 1st appearance as Alicia was at York, 26 Apr. 1777]. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, Gower-street. [In the interim she changed the play. The Announcement of 27 Apr. advertises Romeo and Juliet, by Kemble and Mrs Siddons, in which play she did not appear until May 1789.] Receipts: #337 16s. 6d. (146.1.0; 8.7.6; 0.14.0; tickets: 182.14.0) (charge: #105 16s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

1184
08 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore. [Afterpiece: Prologue by John Dent.] Public Advertiser, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, No. 11, Queen-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #271 17s. (35.7.0; 14.13.6; 1.2.6; tickets: 220.13.0) (charge: #108 5s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Dance: As17870115

1185
09 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wilson. Public Advertiser, 1 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wilson, No. 13, King-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #196 4s. 6d. (30.13.0; 22.10.6; 1.5.0; tickets: 141.16.0) (charge: #106 6s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair-the Miss Stageldoirs

1186
09 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Wilkinson. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 21 Apr. 1784]. With a Grand Procession of the Knights of Chivalryv. Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Wilkinson, No. 15, Martlet-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #126 18s. (121.14; 5.4; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Dance: As17870425

Song: In afterpiece: Still the Lark finds Repose-Miss Wilkinson; End I: Tally@ho-Miss Wilkinson

1187
10 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wrighten, prompter. Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Wrighten, Kennington-lane, near Vauxhall. Receipts: #254 8s. 6d. [64.9.0; 11.13.6; 0.19.0; tickets: 177.7.0) (charge: #106 3s. 9d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Dance: As17870115

1188
11 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fearon. Afterpiece: Never performed here. Public Advertiser, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Fearon, No. 1, Broad-court, Bow-street. Receipts: #224 6s. (79.14.6; 7.6.6; tickets: 137.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of Bath

Dance: As17870425

1189
14 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Public Advertiser, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Ward, No. 12, Catherine-street, Strand. Receipts: #292 17s. 6d. (65.17.0; 14.1.6; 0.10.0; tickets: 212.9.0) (charge: #106 11s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Song: End II: Stand to your Guns-Bannister

Entertainment: Monologue End: The Picture of a Play@House; or, Bucks have at ye all-Dodd

1190
16 May 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not performed these 5 years. In 3 acts; altered from Dryden. [Both Kemble and Moss were from the Edinburgh theatre. Address by George Colman elder (European Magazine, ibid).] Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Charles Dibdin. London Chronicle, 17 May, refers to it as "from the French"]: The Musick composed by Dibdin. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser. 7 July: This Day is published Harvest Home (1s.). Places for the Boxes to be taken of Rice, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Friar

Performance Comment: Dominick-Kemble; Gomez-Moss (Their 1st appearance on this stage); Alphonso-Johnson; Pedro-Chapman; Lorenzo-Williamson; Elvira-Mrs Brooks (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: Harvest Home

Entertainment: Monologue End: Occasional Address (in character)-Young Sestini (European Magazine, July 1787, p. 63)

1191
18 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Brown. Public Advertiser, 12 May: Tickets to be had of Mr and Mrs Brown, No. 147, Drury-Lane. Receipts: #172 15s. (78.0.6; 4.12.6; tickets: 90.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Entertainment: Monologues End: A Dissertation on Hobby Horses , in which (the speaker) will mount upon their different Hobbies the following Personages: The Ladies , Patriots , Statesmen , Captains , Lawyers , Macaronies , Soldiers , Fidlers , Manager , and his own Hobby-Brown; End afterpiece: Dr Goldsmith's Epilogue in the Character of Harlequin , to conclude with a Leap eight feet high-Brown

1192
22 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Artaxerxes [announced on playbill of 21 May] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Afterpiece [1st time; C 3, by Elizabeth Inchbald. Prologue by Henry Sampson Woodfall, Jun. (see text)]: Taken from the celebrated piece called Guerre Ouverte; ou, Ruse Contre Ruse [by Antoine Jean Bourlin, dit Dumaniant]. Public Advertiser, 1 Dec. 1787: This Day is published The Midnight Hour (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #74 5s. (70.2; 4.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Ryder, Edwin, Quick, Fearon, Thompson, Mrs Brown, Mrs Webb, Mrs Wells. [Cast from text (G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787): The Marquis-Lewis; Sebastian-Ryder; Nicolas-Edwin; The General-Quick; Mathias-Fearon; Ambrose-Thompson; Flora-Mrs Brown; Cecily-Mrs Webb; Julia-Mrs Wells; Prologue-Pope. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 9 performances only (see17870615.]This was spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 9 performances only (see17870615.]

1193
23 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Kennedy and King. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Mr and Mrs Kennedy, No. 49, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields; and of King, No. 54, Fleet-street. Receipts: #222 14s. (64.18.6; 4.19.6; tickets: 152.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-[see17870131]

1194
25 May 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never performed here. Public Advertiser, 26 Ma8: As it has been found impracticable to prepare a sufficient Variety of Entertainments, without the Assistance of more Performers, the Theatre is closed 'till further Notice; after which Plays will be continued as usual [see 11 June]. "Sat. May 26th 1787. When the performers assembled t[his] morning, with intent to rehearse, they were acquain[ted] that the Theatre would be shut till the close of Drury? Lane and Covent Garden" (MS annotation on Harvard playbill)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Harvest Home

Dance: II: a Masquerade Scene-; with Dancing-

1195
13 July 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Performance Comment: Captain Gorget-Davies; Tipperary-R. Palmer; Anvil-Barret; Crack-Swords; Landlord-Ledger; Rorey-Moss; Signora Figurante-Sga Sestini; Miss Plumb-Miss George; Lady Pedigree-Mrs Webb [Public Advertiser: Mrs Edwin]; Maria-Mrs Bannister.

1196
19 July 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Browne. [Miss Eccles, who was from the York theatre, is identified in European Magazine, July 1787, p. 64.] Public Advertiser, 16 July: Tickets to be had of Browne, No. 13, King-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Entertainment: Monologue End: a monody, The Shadows of Shakespeare; or, Shakespeare's Characters doing Homage to Garrick (written by Samuel Jackson? Pratt)-Browne

1197
21 July 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Brooks. Public Advertiser, 18 July: Tickets to be had of Mrs Brooks, at Mr Woodmason's, No. 68, Pall-mall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Comus

1198
25 July 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Woollery. Mainpiece: Never acted here. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Clifford to Browne, but he "declined playing the pathetic part of Clifford, although the bills contained his name: Williamson therefore supplied his place" (unidentified clipping in Enthoven Collection).] Public Advertiser, 19 July: Tickets to be had of Miss Woollery, No. 5, Delahay-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Second Or The Fall Of Rosamond

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

1199
31 July 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb. Public Advertiser, 28 July: Tickets to be had of Mrs Webb, No. 22, the corner of Broad-court, Bow Street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Dance: As17870703

1200
03 August 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Public Advertiser, 2 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 34, Mount-street, Grosvernor-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: A Beggar on Horseback