Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C B"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C B")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?
+
+

Keyword

?
New Search
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.

10476
13 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: @562 tickets at 10s.562 tickets at 10s. 6d. #295 1s.@428 tickets at 5s. #107@496 tickets at 3s. 6d. #86 16s.@1486 present.@Receipts: #488 11s.@ Paid Renters #10 (Account Book). Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: As17610206

10477
03 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Receipts: #42 4s. 6d. plus #192 2s. from Tickets (Box 345; Pit 543; Gallery 244). Bought of Lord Holderness's Valet by Blackmore 5 ensembles of clothing amounting to #49 10s. Paid Mrs Marg. Lamb Interest due on #315 due 8 March last: #15 (Account Book). Charges: #66 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

10478
04 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #19 10s. [Macklin seems to have received nothing for this performance as receipts did not equal the house charges of #63.] Paid Rich on account #100 (Account Book). [The treasurer's balance at beginning of Benefit season, 24 March, was #731 7s. 10d. It had now dropped to #201 17s. 2d.] Receipts: #55 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Cast
Role: Actors only: Actor: Beard, Mattocks, Miss Brent, Mrs Vernon

Ballet: TThe Hungarian Gambols. As17610309

10479
14 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Green, (box keepers). Receipts: #22 10s. plus income from tickets: Evans #102 9s. (Box 278; Pit 151; Gallery 103); Green #90 14s. (Box 259; Pit 147; Gallery 39). Paid to Evans and Green #10 each for attendance at the Boxes this season (Account Book). Charges: #70 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

10480
22 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #4 2s. 6d. (Account Book). [i.e., only 16 persons were in the Boxes, and the 2s. 6d. indicates that at least one occupant came in after the third act and paid only half price.] Receipts: #26 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

10481
28 September 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Income from Boxes #15 10s. Paid Whiteford, Wardrobe Keeper, six months' salary due 24 Sept. #20. Receipts: #121 7s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

10482
05 October 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Income from Boxes #36 2s. 6d. Paid Richard Vincent on account for the Trumpeter's clothing to be used in Coronation, #105. Receipts: #130 4s. 6d. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

10483
08 October 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Income from Boxes #83 10s. Present Their Majesties, Lady Augusta; Prince William Henry, Prince Henry Frederick, Paid Vincent in full for 10 Lac'd Coats...8 Trumpet Banners and 2 Kettle drum banners #73 10s. Receipts: #232 11s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

10484
17 October 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Income from Boxes #14. Salary list paid with additions of 10 Oct. #251 14s. plus #24 15s. for servants. Receipts: #79 18s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

10485
16 October 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: EEvery Man in His Humour deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Dunstall (playbill). T. Lownds paid #23 10s. for a one-eighth share of the copyright for Bickerstaff's Maid of the Mill (BM Add. MS 38730 fol. 104b) in anticipation of its stage success. [It was first performed at cg 31 Jan. 1765.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17641015; End: La Femme Maitresse, as17641004

10486
10 April 1766 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the increase of a Fund established for the Support of Decay'd Musicians and their Families. [The Governors announced #622 4s. paid out during the previous year.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

10487
06 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 30 Dec. 1762.] Paid Richard Highland a bill of #3 5s. 5d. for the Wardrobe Dinners (Account Book). Receipts: #222 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part Ii With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

10488
09 October 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid printer's 3 bills...#20 9s.; Mrs Hillman for women's cloathes #23 2s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #116 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Ackman

10489
14 October 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Ben Johnson's Head a bill #1 15s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #103 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Cast
Role: Officer Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Ackman

Dance: II: The Vintage, as17661011

10490
14 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Burletta to be had at the Theatre. Paid Thos. Williamson for 4 pounds spermeceti candles 7s. (Account Book). Receipts: #133 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: Midas

10491
21 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Paid Jones, coal merchant, a bill #104 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #85 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: The Village Romps, as17661008

10492
23 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both Pieces By Particular Desire. Present the Dukes of York and Cumberland, Princess of Brunswick, and Lady Louisa. Paid for the paragraph of the Royal Family coming in the Ledger and Gazetteer 6s. (Account Book). Receipts: #149 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: The Garland-Fishar, Miss Wilford. [See17651003.

10493
13 November 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Paid Printer's Bill #9 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #237 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Tribulation Actor: Hartry, 1st appearance on this stage

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Ackman

Dance: II: The Jealous Peasant, as17661111; IV: The Vintage, as17661011

10494
19 November 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid chorus singers 1 night #2 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #133 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Cast
Role: Officer Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

10495
22 November 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Rec'd from Blackmore #6 6s. for two spring velvet suits of cloaths in his last bill. Paid John Sutherland playing the Bag Pipes in Faustus 4 nights #1 (Account Book). Receipts: #193 19s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

10496
27 November 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Paid Printer's Bills 2 weeks #18 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #241 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Cunning Man

Dance: II: The Italian Bakers, as17661011

10497
28 November 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Rec'd of J. Jackson for an order for 3 in the Gallery the 28th inst. 6s. Paid Sutherland for playing bag pipes in Faustus six nights #1 10s. (Account Book). [Sutherland received his five shillings a night for this performance each time Harlequin Dr Faustus was put on for the rest of the season.] Receipts: #206 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens Or The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scots

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

10498
29 November 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Rec'd from Squib for an order for 2 box seats at the latter account for the 27th inst. 5s. (Account Book). [In other words Squib, who was singing in the afterpiece, paid for two guests who came in after the third act of the mainpiece and got seats for half price.] Receipts: #142 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

10499
02 December 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid for a license for The Accomplish'd Maid #2 2s. and ditto for the Fairy Favour #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #161 15s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Cast
Role: Lavinia Actor: Mrs DuBellamy, 1st appearance this stage

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

10500
05 December 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid chorus singers 2 nights #5 11s.; Gastrill & Co. (mercers) #149 3s. (Treasurer's Book). A new edition of Thespis published. Receipts: #104 4s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Cunning Man