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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

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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.

12651
11 May 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not Or The Kind Imposter

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Song: I: Angelic Fair, a new song-DuBellamy; IV: By Particular Desire, the Cantata of Cymon and Iphigenia-DuBellamy

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17680416

12652
30 May 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: II: The Highland Reel, as17680307

12653
30 May 1768 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: Between the acts: Duquesnay, Miss Street, scholars of Gherardi

12654
21 June 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Being desir'd by many Persons of Quality, for ONE NIGHT ONLY, and By Permission of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Catch-Club, at the Thatch'd House in St Jame's St., will be perform'd the Favourite Catches and Glees which were exhibited Last Summer at Ranelagh-House, With TWO DESIR'D ALTERATIONS. After the 2nd Act, a Concerto on the Violin, by Barthelemon. A Considerable number of the Best Vocal and Instrumental Performers are engag'd on this occasion. Books for the Performance to be had at the theatre. Great care will be taken to keep the Theatre Cool. Ladies and Gentlemen send servants before the opening of the doors, which will be at Half-past 4. No persons can possibly be admitted behind the scenes. To Begin at exactly Seven o'clock. Tickets to be had and places to be taken (ONLY) of Mr Johnston at the stage Door (playbill)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Catches And Glees

12655
24 August 1768 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Dance: As17680530

12656
22 September 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Dance: TThe Lilliputian Camp-

12657
03 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This comic opera of two acts [Padlock] was written by Mr Bickerstaffe and is a very compleat, pretty piece,--the music very striking.--Mrs Dorman was hissed at first, but the piece went off very well, and much applauded (Hopkins Diary). New Scenes, Dresses, Music and other Decorations. Doors opened at half past 4. Play to begin exactly at 6 o'clock. [A three column retelling of the plot of the padlock appeared in Lloyd's Evening Post, for Oct. 5-7.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

12658
06 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

12659
17 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Marcellus Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

12660
01 November 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: An English Opera composed and directed by Dr Arne. In this opera two new performers appeared,--Mr Rathom who played Artaxerxes, a bad figure, extreamly aukward, and much hissed--the other Mrs Forbes, who played Arbaces, a small figure a good voice, was well received, and went decently through the part (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: M Daguville, 1st appearance, Mrs King

12661
17 November 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Comedy from Moliere and Cibber. Hopkins Diary: This comedy [Hypocrite] is the Non Juror altered, and two new characters introduced,--went off very well,--some few hisses,--but the play will do.--The alterations are by Mr Bickerstaffe. [Full account of the mainpiece, but without critical observation, appeared in the Lloyd's Evening Post, Nov. 18-21.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

12662
23 November 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [This evening] a cause came on to be tried in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, in which Mr William Bates, Music Master, was Plaintiff and Spranger Barry, Esq the celebrated tragedian, defendent, upon a demand made by the plaintiff for a large sum of money due to him from the Defendent, for the performance of Miss Slack, the Plaintiff's apprentice, at the Theatre in Cork...After a short hearing a verdict was given in favour of the Plaintiff (Lloyd's Evening Post, 25-28 Nov.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Clod Actor: Ackman

Dance: I: A New Pantomime Dance, as17681116

12663
21 December 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zingis

Cast
Role: Suida Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

12664
30 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

12665
06 January 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: New Comic Dance, as17681210

12666
09 January 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

12667
12 January 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

12668
25 January 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: Wits Last Stake

12669
03 February 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Marcellus Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

12670
04 February 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Rakes

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: The Wake, as17680929

12671
09 February 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Ackman

12672
20 February 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Rakes

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: I: New Comic Dance, as17681210

12673
01 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Theatrical Register, 1769: This perhaps is one of the best of all Mr Handel's performances in this species of composition. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: Concerto on Hautboy-Fischer

12674
03 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Theatrical Register, 1769: We cannot rank this among th most capital of Mr Handel's oratorios; and yet it has great merit in one particular, viz. the attempt to characterize the idea of the plagues of Egypt by the power of music, in which, perhaps, the composer has carried the force of imitation to its utmost extent. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Israel In Egypt

Music: Concerto on Violin-Paganini

12675
05 April 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Baddeley. Mainpiece: Played this night By Particular Desire. Tickets deliver'd for The English Merchant will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Cast
Role: Constable Actor: Ackman

Dance: I: The Wake, as17680929