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5578 results for: Keyword - Ackman</i> (<i>Public Advertiser</i>). This day only. <span class=
We found 3976 matches on Event Comments, 1323 matches on Performance Comments, 587 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

701
15 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Morris. The Continuance of Miss Morris's illness rendering it impossible for her to appear at present on the Stage, she takes this Opportunity of returning her most grateful Thanks to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have honoured her with Commands at her Benefit, for which Mrs Bellamy has kindly undertaken to perform the part of Juliet. Charges #69 19s. Balance to Miss Morris #56 19s. 6d. plus #94 15s. from tickets (Box 379). Received from Mrs Vincent her deficiency the 13th inst.--#4 2s. 6d. Receipts: #126 18s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17690106, but Juliet-Mrs Bellamy; Escalus-Morris (playbill); Gardner (Public Advertiser); Dancing-to act I; Solemn Dirge-Mrs _Baker, _Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17680920

702
01 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Garton (treasurer) Died this night at Kensington Gravel Pits where she went for the recovery of her health, Miss Morris, the young lady who appeared this season with so much applause at Covent Garden (Public Advertiser). Charges #67 15s. Balance to Garton #20 11s. plus #98 from tickets (Box 186; Pit 258; Gallery 128) (Account Book). Receipts: #88 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Entertainment: IV: THE CRIES OF LONDON-Shuter; End: Post Haste OBSERVATIONS on a Journey to Paris-Shuter

703
06 June 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account Book: @Receiv'd of Vincent for Music Forfeits this season #21 11s. 10d.@Rece'v'd for stage forfeits this season #14 4s. 2d.@Receiv'd of Mrs Carne for ends of Candles & Oyl #70 6s. 7d.@Receiv'd of Proprietors of Public Advertiser #50@Receiv'd of Proprietors of Daily Gazetteer #50@Paid Vincent for Music Books #4 5s. 2d.@9 June@Rec'd Assurance on 50 Renter's Old Shares at 4s. 10d. each #12 1s. 8d.@Rec'd Assurance on 50 Renter's New Shares at 2s. 6d. each #6 5s.@15 July@Rec'd of His Majesty by Mr Mathias #40@Rec'd of Madam Schellenbergen by Ditto #9@Total Income 1768-69: #30,759 16s. 2 1!2d.@Total Expense 1768-69: #24,035 8s. 3d.@31 May: Paid Arnold Composer #50 13s.@2 June: Paid Kirkman for tuning #20@

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

704
21 December 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Performance Comment: As17691123, but Phaedra-Mrs Jeffries (playbill). Phaedra-Miss Pope (Public Advertiser).

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: King, Moody, Parsons, Ackman, Hurst, Waldron, Castle, Wheeler, W. Palmer, Wright, Keen, Hartry, Mesink, Clough, Booth, J. Burton, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Lowe. The Vocal Parts-Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Champnes, Fawcett, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley

705
31 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: As17700102, but Manly-Clarke (playbill); Manly-Hull (Public Advertiser).

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Jubilee

706
29 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: As17700324 but Urganda-Mrs Scott (playbill); Mrs Baddeley (Public Advertiser). Original Epilogue-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

707
28 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17700101, but Tibalt-Gardner; Juliet-Mrs Lessingham; Benvolio-Davis; Escalus-_. [The Public Advertiser retains Tibalt-Cushing.]
Cast
Role: The Public Advertiser retains Tibalt Actor: Cushing.

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Performance Comment: Young Clackit (first time and for that night only)-Mrs Lessingham; Hartley-Clarke; Sir Charles-Yates; Lucy-Mrs Green; Harriet-Mrs Bulkley.

Dance: End: The Whim, as17691123

708
22 August 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Notice taken from advance bill 21 Aug. (Public Advertiser).]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Wrangling Lovers

Dance: End of Play: The Pedlar by Mas. and Miss West

709
26 September 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Duke of York-$Miss Besford in Public Advertiser.] Afterpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Midas

710
03 October 1770 @ Ranelagh Gardens

Event Comment: [A musical Entertainment followed by the play, followed by twenty-seven items of fireworks. The customary format for the Ranelagh evenings. Heavy emphasis and expenditure upon the fireworks, for example, No 18 was a Grand new piece for four Mutations extending the length of the bridge, consisting of 150 cases of brilliant Fountains, Roman Candles, Chinese Jerbs, Pots, d'Brians, with Maroons," with an armed guard to patrol the Roads (Public Advertiser).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

711
31 December 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17701026, but Lady Ann-Mrs Vincent; Duchess of York-Mrs Ferguson; Tressel-Wroughton; Duke of York-Miss Cockayne (Public Advertiser).

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

712
21 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: As17710115, but Parts-Barnshaw, +Fox, Mrs +Perry (playbill), but not according to the +Public Advertiser.

713
29 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Hussey remains in Public Advertiser but is dropped on 31 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Dance: IV: The Merry Sailors, as17701015

714
15 April 1771 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission for one Night only. Benefit for Johnson. This Play will not be repeated at the Haymarket this Season, as it is a particular Act of Indulgence that it is suffered to be performed there this Evening (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Marriage a la Mode

715
23 April 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Performance Comment: As17710221, but Sir Charles-Parsons (Public Advertiser); but Hartry (MacMillan). but Hartry (MacMillan).

Dance: III: The Amusements of Strasburg, as17710422

716
18 December 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Characters in the Mainpiece New Dress'd (Public Advertiser). Paid Garter Supers 8 nights (13th inst. incl.) #39 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #161 9s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

717
21 December 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece seems, according to the Public Advertiser, to have had in it entertainments of dancing.] Benefit for Westminster New Lying-In-Hospital near Westminster Bridge (playbill). Charges #86 18s. 6d. Profit to Hospital #19 10s. 6d., plus #79 7s. from tickets (Box 172; Pit 161; Gallery 122) (Account Book). Receipts: #106 9s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End: The Reel-Miss Valois, Sga Manesiere, Aldridge. As17711030

718
03 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: As17720201, but Chasseur Royal-DuBellamy (playbill) but Reinhold in Public Advertiser.

719
17 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: As17720316 Lewes confirmed by Public Advertiser.

720
21 April 1772 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Serious Opera. Music by Several eminent composers, executed under the direction of Giordani. The opera was not performed because of Millico's illness. He was suddenly taken ill with a cold and hoarseness (Public Advertiser, 22 April). [Le Pazzie D'Orlando was substituted.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse Or Le Pazzie Dorlando

Dance: Mlle Heinel, other principals

721
19 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Performance Comment: As17711207, but Mrs Subtle-Mrs DuBellamy? (playbill), but Mrs Subtle-$Mrs Pitt in Public Advertiser.
Cast
Role: Mrs Subtle Actor: Mrs Pitt in Public Advertiser.

Dance: End: New Dance, as17720409

722
02 July 1772 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: Proprietor of Marlebone Gardens, Mr Arnold, summoned to Bow St. to pay penalty of #5 for causing Fireworks to be made contrary to the Act of 9th and 10th of William III. Opinion of the Bench he was not fineable (Public Advertiser). Letter to Garrick in consequence of his moving the Court of the King's Bench for leave to file an information against author of Love in the Suds &c. will shortly be publish'd by D. Kendk. Was publish'd 7 July Folio 2s. 6d. an quarto 1s. 6d. 2nd edn. (Winston MS 10, from Burney News Clippings.

Performances

723
28 August 1772 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: The Burletta a New Musical entertainment composed by Hook. Tickets 3s. 6d. [The performance occurs between a concert and fireworks. The whole entitled Mr Hook's Annual Festival. The news commentary in the Public Advertiser notes the performance seems adapted to all Tastes on account of the great Variety it affords, the Ode being rather serious, and the Burletta is wrote on a Subject of Ridicule."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Dilettante

Music: Between the Acts: Concerto on Piano Forte-Hook (by Particular Desire); The Ode-Hook for the opening of the New Exhibition Room of the Royal Incorporated Artists of Great Britain. Chorusses will be supported by a number of Capital singers and young gentlemen of St Paul's Choir; The principal vocal parts-Reinhold, Bannister, Mrs Cartwright, Mrs Thompson

724
17 September 1772 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By the Author of the Register Office [Reed]. By Permission and Particular Desire. The tragedy was originally written in Italian by Sg Fonidoso Dellarundo, of Civita Vecchia, and bequeathed by him, at his Decease, to an English Gentleman, with whom he had contracted an intimate Acquaintance. It was translated into English by the celebrated Mr Rone, and (considering the difference of the idiom between the two languages) it is thought equal at last, if not superior to the original (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Madrigal and Trulletta

Entertainment: IV: Imitations Rhetorical and Vocal-Bannister; Scrub's Trip to the Jubilee-Weston

725
23 October 1772 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: On Tuesday last died at Ealing in Middlesex at a very advanced age and much regretted by all who had the Pleasure of his Acquaintance, Henry Giffard, the Celebrated Manager of Goodman's Fields Theatre. This Gentleman was of a Genteel Family in the West of England (Public Advertiser). [Though him Garrick had come to the stage.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None