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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.

2301
18 February 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "In no part of Bensley's voice is there an atom of the tender of mournful. [King Henry] is a part totally unsuited to his powers" (Public Advertiser, 19 Feb.). Receipts: #158 15s. (119.2; 37.15; 1.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

2302
25 February 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher. Not acted these 3 years. [The playbill assigns Abigail to Mrs Webb, but "an apology being made for Mrs Webb, who was indisposed, Mrs Platt undertook to read the part" (Public Advertiser, 26 Feb.). Afterpiece in place of The Farmer, advertised on playbill of 23 Feb.] Receipts: #162 15s. (155.17; 6.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Capricious Lady

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake

2303
28 February 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [As afterpiece Public Advertiser erroneously announces The Citizen.] Receipts: #189 6s. 6d. (184.7.6; 4.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17871129

2304
04 March 1788 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera [1st time; COM 2, librettist unknown]; the Music composed by Storace. "Signor Storace does not appear to have studied that art [of music] much in Italy; for he has entirely deviated from the usual plan of Italian authors...The overture anneunces entirely a French author, and the finales are in the German style of Gluck, loaded with harsh, terrifying music of trumpeting and drumming" (Public Advertiser, 6 Mar.). Receipts: !162 [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cameriera Astuta

Dance: End Opera: Les Fetes de Tempe, as17880301End I: New Dance, as17880226; Pas de Bernois, as17880226; Pas de Trois, as17880226; Pas Seul, as17880226; Pas de Russe, as17880226; Pas de Cinq, as17880226; Pas de Sept, as17880226; General Dance, as17880226

2305
06 March 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "Mrs Abington's Phillis partook of [fresh] novelty-it even descended to her adjusting the chairs of the drawing-room-to the humility of her whispers" (Public Advertiser, 7 Mar.). Receipts: #201 1s. (193.18; 7.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Song: As17880204

2306
10 March 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pope. [Author of Epilogue unknown.] Public Advertiser, 25 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Pope at her house, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #312 12s. 6d. (216.12.6; 9.8.0; tickets: 86.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17880205, but The Lady (for that night only)-Mrs Pope.

Dance: As17880301

Song: In afterpiece: Sweet Echo-Mrs Billington; accompanied on the hautboy-W. Parke

Entertainment: Monologue. End: an Occasional Epilogue-Mrs Pope

2307
11 March 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Ryder. 2nd piece: Not acted these 3 years. Public Advertiser, 23 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Ryder at his house, No. 5, Bow-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #238 19s. 6d. (137.9.0; 2.17.6; tickets: 98.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Afterpiece Title: She Stoops to Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: The Mock Doctor (for that night only)-Ryder; Sir Jasper-Fearon; Leander-Macready; Davy-Wewitzer; Squire Robert-Helme; Doctor Hellebore-Booth; Charlotte-Miss Stuart; Dorcas-Mrs Webb.

Dance: As17880301

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: Bucks have at You All as spoken in Dublin-Ryder

2308
13 March 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Kemble [whose 1st appearance as Hastings was in Dublin in the spring of 1782]. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their servants by Half past Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 25 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Kemble, No. 13, Caroline-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #324 12s. (190.0; 9.8; 0.14; tickets: 124.10) (charge: #107 4s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Conjugal Frolick, as17880221

2309
02 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Public Advertiser, 22 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn fields. Receipts: #259 9s. (90.16; 18.13; 0.11; tickets: 149.9) (charge: #109 18s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Comus

2310
04 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Crouch. Public Advertiser, 18 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Crouch, No. 48, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #282 5s. (96.8; 24.6; 1.1; tickets: 159.10) (charge: #114 12s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

2311
07 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Kelly. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their servants by Half past Four o'Clock. [Mme Mara had sung in concert at the Pantheon in 1784; in opera at the king's in 1786; and in the dl oratorios in 1787 and 1788.] Public Advertiser, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Kelly, No. 48, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #351 5s. 6d. (177.12.0; 9.13.6; 0.5.0; tickets: 163.15.0) (charge: #111 3s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Performance Comment: Arbaces (for that night only)-Mrs Crouch (1st appearance in that character); Artaxerxes-Dignum; Rimenes-Fawcett; Artabanes-Kelly (1st appearance in that character); Semira-Mrs Forster; Mandane (for that night only)-Mme Mara (1st appearance on any [non-musical] English stage). English stage).

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

2312
14 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Abington. Part of the Pit [Public Advertiser, 16 Apr.: nine rows] will be laid into the Boxes. Receipts: #296 19s. 6d. (164.19.6; 7.5.0; tickets: 124.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: II: Masquerade Dance, as17871107; End: New Divertisement, as17880124

Song: II afterpiece: Ally Croaker in two parts,-Mrs Abington, Johnstone

2313
15 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Bowden as Robin Hood, but "an apology was made for the sudden indisposition of Bowden...Davies was the substitute" (Public Advertiser, 16 Apr.).] Receipts: #170 7s. 6d. (163.15.0; 6.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: Omai

2314
21 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. [Author of Prologue to 1st piece unknown. 2nd piece: By permission of G. Colman, Esq. [owner of the copyright]. 3rd piece [1st time; F 2 (?)]: Altered from Woman's a Riddle [by Christopher Bullock; alterer unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published]. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #286 11s. (145.16; 14.5; 1.12; tickets: 124.18) (charge: #106 1s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Transformation Or The Manager An Actor In Spite Of Himself

Performance Comment: Cameleon-Bannister Jun.; Waiter-Bannister Jun.; Hair Dresser-Bannister Jun.; Musician-Bannister Jun.; Machinist-Bannister Jun.; Woman@dresser-Bannister Jun.; Prompter-Bannister Jun.; Publican-Bannister Jun.; Manager of the Fete-Benson; Gentleman-R. Palmer; Prologue-Bannister Jun.
Cast
Role: Publican Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Invisible Mistress

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: A Touch of the Times; or, A Ramble through London-Bannister Jun

2315
23 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. Public Advertiser, 7 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren, Gower-street, Bedford Square. Receipts: #340 7s. 6d. (92.11.0; 4.2.6; tickets: 243.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: As17880301

2316
24 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore. Public Advertiser, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, No. 22, Church-street, St. Ann's. Receipts: #301 0s. 6d. (82.5.0; 18.1.0; 0.7.6; tickets. 200.7.0) (charge: #114 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

2317
25 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "Bursts of applause continued for full ten minutes on Palmer's first entrance" (Public Advertiser, 26 Apr.). Receipts: #249 14s. 6d. (226.17.0; 20.10.0; 2.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Performance Comment: As17880408, but Sir Toby Belch-Palmer (1st appearance there this season).

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17880313

2318
28 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Macklin. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Macklin, No. 6, Tavistock-row, Covent Garden. Receipts: #236 8s. (141.12; 5.13; tickets: 89.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: As17871129

2319
28 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Taylor. Mainpiece: Not acted these 12 years. Public Advertiser, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Taylor, No. 10, Charles-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #173 (50.17; 23.17; 0.10; tickets: 97.16) (charge: #109 11s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Performance Comment: General Savage-King; Conolly-Moody; Torrington-Parsons; Leeson-Barrymore; Captain Savage-Whitfield; Spruce-Lamash; Ghastly-Burton; Leech-Phillimore; Crow-Hollingsworth; Wolf-Alfred; Belville-Kemble (1st appearance in that character); Miss Walsingham-Mrs Taylor; Lady Rachel Mildew-Mrs Hopkins; Mrs Tempest-Mrs Wilson; Miss Leeson-Miss Collins; Mrs Belville (for that night only)-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: Comus

2320
29 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Tickets delivered for the 10th will be admitted. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their servants by Half past Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, No. 21, Charlotte-street, Bedford-Square. Receipts: #271 19s. 6d. (122.5.0; 22.15.6; 0.9.0; tickets: 126.10.0) (charge: #114 5s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

2321
30 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Billington. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Tickets delivered for the 9th will be taken. Public Advertiser, 12 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Billington, No. 53, Poland-street. Receipts: #293 10s. 6d. (163.18.6; 6.17.0; tickets: 122.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Performance Comment: Arbaces (for that night only)-Leoni; Artabanes-Darley; Rimenes-Davies; Artaxerxes-Mrs Kennedy; Semira-Mrs Morton; Mandane-Mrs Billington.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: As17880129

2322
02 May 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jordan. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their servants by Half past Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan, No. 82, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #299 4s. (79.5; 14.12; 1.5; tickets: 204.2) (charge: #115 3s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

2323
05 May 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their servants by Half past Four o'Clock. Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. Public Advertiser, 26 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #327 3s. (140.12.0; 9.14.6; 0.19.6; tickets: 175.17.0) (charge: #111 1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love Or The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17880313

2324
07 May 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer. 1st, 2nd and 3rd pieces: Never performed there. By Permission of G. Colman, Esq. [owner of the copyrights]. Public Advertiser, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of R. Palmer, No. 14, East Place, Lambeth. Receipts: #144 17s. (43.5; 18.13; 0.14; tickets: 82.5) (charge: #105 9s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

2325
07 May 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fearon. Public Advertiser, 1 May: Tickets to be had of Fearon, No. 1, Broad-court. Receipts: #181 19s. 6d. (80.5.0; 13.8.6; tickets: 88.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Related Works
Related Work: The Man of Parts Author(s): Isaac Jackman

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-[See17880401]