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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.

10401
17 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Benefit for Mlle Auretti. King an Princess Emilia [attended] (Cross). Tickets and places to be had of Mlle Auretti at the second house on the left hand, the Corner Panton St., in Leicester Fields, and of Hobson at the stage door. [Pit and boxes laid together and Amphitheatre on stage, as on 10 March.] Paid salary list #203 7s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #280 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: Between the acts: Savoyard Travellers, A Wooden Shoe Dance, a Minuet, Louvre-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Mathews, Miss Baker, Mlle L'Contri, Master Maltere, Miss Foulcade; the whole to conclude with: Country Dance-

10402
20 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Tickets to be had of Mrs Ward, next door to the chapel in Little Wild St., and of Hobson at the stage door. Paid Norton 3 chorus 15s.; Cash rec'd #73 1s. 6d.; Tickets #85 18s.; Charges #63. Profit to Mrs Ward #95 19s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #150 (Cross); #158 19s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

10403
24 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Beard. Part of Pit will be rail'd into Boxes, where servants may keep Places and on the Stage. Tickets to be had of Beard at his House in New North St., Red Lion Square, and of Hobson at the stage door. Rec'd front Cash #67 12s., plus #132 13s. in tickets. Total #200 5s. Paid Hobson for 2 suits of cloaths #21; Salary list #203 7s.; Norton for 1 chorus 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #205 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: III: L'Entree de Flore-Mlle Auretti

10404
27 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Green. Tickets of Mrs Green in Broad Court, Bow St., Covent Garden, and at the stage Door. Tickets deliver'd out for the Provok'd Wife will be taken. Paid Blandford (Tallow Chandler) #12 15s. 9d. Cash rec'd #77 2s., plus #79 8s. from tickets. Total #156 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #170 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Mathews, Miss Baker

10405
07 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets taken for Miss Haughton for 2 Henry IV #42 4s. Total value of House #109 14s. Paid Servandoni #5 5s. Last time of performing till the Holidays. Receipts: #67 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

10406
19 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter and Palmer. Rec'd cash #50 14s., plus #82 15s. in tickets. Paid Duke of Bedford's Steward for leases #3 13s. 6d.; Mrs Swift 1s. 6d., omitted Wednesday; Mrs Roberts #1 omitted Wednesday [Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #150 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: The Swedish Gardeners, as17491219

10407
23 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hilliard. Charges #60. Deficiency to Miss Hilliard #28 7s. covered by #55 8s. from tickets. Paid Servandoni as an advance #5 5s. Receipts: #31 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian King Of Portugal

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: Dutch Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; III: Grand Scots Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; V: Minuet, Louvre-Cooke, Miss Hillyard

10408
26 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Raftor, Reinhold and Miss Pitt. Rec'd cash #54 16s., plus #83 from tickets. Total #137 16s. Paid Mrs Reynolds for wax and brick dust 3s. 11d. (Treasurer's Book). Last time of performing the Afterpiece this season. Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats

Song: IIf God could lengthen life forever-Reinhold; (by desire) Honour and Arms from the Oratorio Sampson,-Reinhold

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Maltere; Tambourine-Miss Foulcade

10409
19 October 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these two years. [See 4 April 1749.] Miss Jane Cibber play'd Alicia-quite in old style, not lik'd at all, tho' not hiss'd-given out again and great hiss'd & so not done ($Cross). [The Author of the Midwife (No 1, final Page) reported]: Now I am speaking of Miss Cibber, I must do her the justice to observe that she play'd the part much better than cou'd be expected from one of her years and practice; and if a proper regard is paid to her modesty and Merit, I make no doubt she will become an exceeding good player. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Entertainment: EEpilogue upon Two Prologues-Mrs Clive

10410
09 November 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by His Majesty's command. [John Pringle wrote to Blayney Townley on 14 Nov.: Great are the disputes at present between the rival theatres, vieing with each other in different characters which afford unusual entertainment to all frequenting the stage. His Majesty on Saturday night paid his first visit to Covent Garden in perference to the opera at Drury Lane, when Lady Townley by Pegg Woffington gave him great pleasure, with the addition of unusual huzzas in a part of the Miller of Mansfield." -Historical MS Commission, 10th Report, Appendix, Part IV (London 1887), p. 257.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

10411
26 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #55 16s. 6d. Paid Phillips for dancing in the Sorcerer #2 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Merlin Harlequin Skeleton

10412
11 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Containing the Distresses and Death of King Henry VIv ; the Artful Acquisition of the Crown by Richardv ; the Cruel Murder of the young King Edward Vv and his brother in the Tower; the Landing of the Earl of Richmondv ; and the Death of Richard in the memorable Battle of Bosworth Fieldv ; being the last that was fought between the Houses of York and Lancasterv ; with many other historical passages [a regular notice appearing with performances of this play]. Receipts: #118 18s. 6d. [Paid to] Lee one third of the surplus of this night's receipts over the charge of #100, #3 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: Lucas, Miss Hilliard

10413
12 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #59 18s. Paid Meares, Taylor, a bill for making Richard's Dress for Lee...#3 0s. 11d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

10414
28 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [See Cross note under dl.] Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #74 15s. Paid Stede a Bill for writing Parts, #6 15s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

10415
07 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #155 6s. Paid Barry one third of the surplus of the night's receipts above the #80 allow'd for the charge: #25 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

10416
10 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #106 11s. Paid Barry one third of surplus above the #80 allow'd for charges: #8 17s. (Account Book). [House, after meeting Saturday's payroll, is #205 3s. 2d., in the red again.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

10417
12 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #98 3s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third of surplus above the #80 allow'd for charges: #6 1s. 2d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: TheLover His Own Rival

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17571013

10418
14 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #109 14s. (Account Book). [Barry paid his one-third of the surplus above the #80 house charge: #9 18s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius Or The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: Granier, Mrs Granier

10419
16 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #87 10s. 6d. (Account Book). [Barry paid his one third of surplus of receipts above #80 house Charges: #2 10s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

10420
20 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #146 17s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third of surplus above the #80 House Charges: #22 5s. 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17571013

10421
27 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #122 7s. 6d. Paid Barry his his one third of surplus above the #80 House Charges: #14 2s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

10422
10 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #109 9s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third surplus above the #80 House Charges: #9 16s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17571013

10423
20 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 6s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third of surplus above the #80 House Charges: #10 2s. 2d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

10424
27 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [by Elijah Fenton]: Not acted these 10 years. [See 12 March 1745.] Receipts: #110 15s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third of the surplus above the #80 House Charges: #10 5s. 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

10425
28 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Present the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Edward, Lady Augusta, and Princess Elizabeth. Receipts: #219 1s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third of the surplus above #80 House Charges: #46 7s. 2d. Gave the yeoman of the Prince and Princess #1 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Ballet: The Judgment of Paris. As17571217

Dance: As17571217