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14004 results for: Keyword - Ackman</i> (<i>Public Advertiser</i>). This day only. Paid $Mr C. B<span class=
We found 9670 matches on Event Comments, 3173 matches on Performance Comments, 1218 matches on Performance Title, 295 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

9426
28 February 1741 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [The bills for 26 and 27 Feb. had also advertised Dryden's Ode. The Ode is retained in Daily Advertiser, 28 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

9427
16 March 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Benefit Ryan. Receipts: money #59 0s. 6d.; seals #100 6s. (Account Book); #150 (Rylands MS.) [Ryan received a Free Benefit. See also an Exchange of letters in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 9 and 10 March, concerning the alleged indecency of Blunt's undressing before the audience.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover Or The Banished Cavaliers

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Tyrolean-Desnoyer, Haughton, Signora Barberini

9428
21 March 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Desire. Receipts: #133 12s. 6d. (Account Book); #160 (Rylands MS.). London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 23 March: On Saturday Night last, in the Entertainment of Orpheus and Eurydice, the Audience were aggreably surpriz'd with the Representation of a new Machine, in Imitation of the Travelling Chaise without Horses, the Performance of which was so extraordinary, and gave such a general Satisfaction, that the Spectators would not be contented 'till they saw it a second Time pass round the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

9429
04 April 1741 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: For a long letter on musical performances, including Handel's, see London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 4 April, reprinted in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 515-17

Performances

9430
08 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By partiuclar Desire. Benefit Chapman. Tickets at Chapman's House, Corner of Bow Street. [in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 7 April, Chapman published a letter regretting that this benefit will be on the night Handel has a performance at lif. Chapman states that he owes much to Handel and wishes him success. Because, he states, some 20,000 will want to attend lif, which cannot hold above twenty hundred, Chapman remarks that, if those who cannot get into lif will go to dl, he will be happy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Song: In II: Lowe; III: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Lowe

Dance: III: Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: Peasants-Muilment

9431
17 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: See17401115, but Falstaff-Paget; Ford-Giffard; Sir Hugh-Yates; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Yates (hn Daily Advertiser, 16 April).

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

9432
24 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Harper and Raftor. [Tickets at Harper's House in Bridges Street. A letter to the Daily Advertiser, 24 April, concerning this benefit, states that Harper is incapacitated with 'a Paralytick Disorder.'

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Last Stake Or The Wifes Resentment

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: II: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Lowe; IV: Miss Edwards

Dance: III: Grand Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

9433
30 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Ravenscroft and Stichbury. [Cast in Daily Advertiser only.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: A Dialogue-between Stichbury, Yates

Dance: V: Hornpipe-Yates

Opera: IV: Nancy. with Careful-Stichbury

9434
08 September 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser: We hear the Painting, Gilding, and other Decorations at the late Theatre in Goodman's Fields, are finish'd; and that on Monday next the usual Concerto will open, with which will be perform'd gratis, The Constant Couple, and the Virgin Unmask'd. Receipts: #105

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

9435
08 October 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser announces The Intriguing Chambermaid. Receipts: #83

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

9436
19 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Descriptive passage as at cg 13 Oct. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 20 Oct.: Last Night was perform'd, gratis, the Tragedy of Richard the Third, at the late Theatre in Goodman's Fields, when the Character of Richard was perform'd by a Gentleman who never appear'd before, whose Reception was the most extraordinary and great that was ever known upon such an Occasion; and we hear he obliges the Town this Evening with the same Performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: Froment, Mlle Duval, two Masters and Miss Granier

9437
21 November 1741 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Handel is set out for Ireland, in order to have Oratorios, etc., at Dublin, this Winter.-Daily Advertiser, 21 Nov

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander In Persia

9438
26 November 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 27 Nov.: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Last Night there was a great Number of Persons of Quality and Distinction at the Theatre in Goodman's Fields, to see the Play of Richard the Third, who all express'd the highest Satisfaction at the whole Performance, several hundred Persons were obliged to return for want of room, the House being full soon after Five o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Dance: two Mwo Masters and Miss Granier

9439
16 December 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser: We hear that Mrs Clive, who has been so dangerously ill that her life has been despair'd of, is now judged to be in a fair way of recovery. Receipts: #60

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Friar

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: I: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond-Lowe; III: a New Ballad-Lowe

Dance: II: Tambourine-Mlle Mechel; V: The Italian Peasants, as17411207

9440
21 December 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: RRylands MS.: Mrs Clive play'd. London Daily Post and General Advertiser: Mrs Clive, who has been lately dangerously ill at her lodgings in Great Queen St., is so well recover'd that she will perform this night at Drury Lane, in the Famous Comedy of Shakespear's call'd As You Like It. Receipts: #100

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Dance: LLe Genereux Corsaire-Fausan, Signora Fausan only; but see17411214

9441
05 January 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked from Rylands MS

Performance Comment: ). [The London Daily Post and General Advertiser had announced The Fortune Tellers as17411112.]

Song: I: Bright Author of My Present Flame-Lowe; III: The Early Horn-Lowe

Dance: II: A Concerto-Mlle Mechel; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

9442
07 January 1742 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: (Daily Advertiser, 6 Jan.) A new Prologue on the Gamesters-.

Afterpiece Title: Nancy or The Parting Lovers

Song:

Dance:

9443
22 January 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Never acted there before. Receipts: #90. Daily Advertiser, 23 Jan.: Last Night Shakespear's Play of All's Well was acted for the first time at Drury Lane, to a numerous Audience, with universal applause; but Mrs Woffington being indisposed, it is deferr'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alls Well That Ends Well

Song: I: See from the Silent Groves-Beard; III: A Duet-Beard, Lowe

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

9444
18 February 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: RRehearsal deferred by Garrick's illness. London Daily Post and General Advertiser: Whereas it has been industriously reported to my prejudice, that I was at the Masquerade in the Habit of a Madman; this is to assure the Gentlemen or Ladies, who are offended at me, without Cause, I was not at either of the Masquerades this Season, as can be testify'd by several Gentlemen in whose Company I was. If any Person has a Mind to be further satisfy'd, I will fully convince them of the Truth of this Advertisement. David Garrick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: WWelchman's Triumph, as17420210

9445
17 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Deferred, according to Daily Advertiser 16 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: Judgment of Paris

9446
04 October 1742 @ Upper Moorfields

Event Comment: At Yeates, Warner, and Rosoman's Booth in Upper Moorfields. [According to news item in Daily Advertiser, they were to act all of this week during the time of Mile End Fair.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Lovers Or An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy at Last

9447
22 November 1742 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit a Person who has a mind to get money. [No notice in Daily Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

9448
18 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Desire. Daily Advertiser, 23 Dec.: On Saturday night last, at Covent Garden Playhouse, one William Wright, a young Man, who was in the Shilling Gallery, disapproving of Signora Domitilla's Dancing between the second the Third Acts, was without any Provocation, kick'd, beat, and abus'd etc

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Les Savoyards-Villeneuve, Sga Domitilla; La Provencale, as17421105

9449
22 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17430222, but Mrs Quickly-Mrs Mullart; Sir Hugh Evans (the Welsh Parson)-Hippisley (Daily Advertiser).

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing, as17421025; Tambourine-Cooke; Les Boufons du Cour, as17430305

9450
31 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Last Oratorio Night this season. [Quatrain from Daily Advertiser printed in this bill defending oratorios against attacks in Universal Spectator; see Deutsch, Handel, p. 565.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: Concerto on Organ-; Violin Solo-DuBourg