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14707 results for: Keyword - Ackman</i> (<i>Public Advertiser</i>). This day only. Paid $Mr C. Bannister
We found 9758 matches on Event Comments, 4881 matches on Performance Comments, 1353 matches on Performance Title, 31 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

8226
18 November 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Farce by David Garrick. Paid half year's Land Tax due Michelmas #34 6s., and half year's window tax #8 17s.; Paid oyl bill #50 15s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #128 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Cast
Role: Sergius Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

8227
08 December 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Ben Johnson's Head a bill #4 11s. 9d.; Paid Rollett on his note #10. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #242 19s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Cast
Role: Rossano Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

8228
18 December 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Present their Majesties and the Princess Brunswick and Lady Louisa. Paid Yeomen of the guard #2 2s. Paid Joseph Stevens, Music porter, #1 16s. (Account Book). Receipts: #220 5s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Accomplishd Maid

Dance: I: The Happy Villagers, as17661215; II: Rural Love, as17661120; End Opera: The Female Archer, as17661215

8229
23 December 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Particular Desire of the Right Honorable and Honorable The Governors (Being the Last Time of performing till the Holidays). Not acted this season. For the Benefit of the General Lying-In Hospital, Quebec Street, Oxford Road. Charges #85 5s., Balance to Hospital #5 6d. Hospital also receiv'd #156 10s. from tickets (Box 544, Pit 116, Gallery 31). Paid for 1 year's watch for theatre due at Xmas #12 10s. and for the House in Bow Passage 12s. 6d. Paid Dunstall the balance due for the theatrical Fund #136 17s. (Account Book). Receipts: #90 5s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: The Village Romps, as17661008

8230
27 February 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Author's Night. House Charges #64 4s. [Profit to Colman #92 18s. 6d.] Paid supernumeraries 2 nights in Lilliputian Camp #9 1s. (Treasurer's Book). [Reckoning pay per night for supernumeraries at somewhat over 2s., this bill indicates the presence of about 40 such in this interlude.] Paid Cole (turner) #10 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #157 2s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Dance: III: New Pantomime Dance, as17670225; After Interlude: A New Pantomime Dance call'd The Lilliputian Camp-

Music: NNew Concerto on Harpsichord, as17670212

8231
27 April 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fishar, Ballet Master and Sga Manesiere. Entertainments by Children for that night only. Charges #64 5s. [Profit to each #21 11s. 9d. plus income from tickets: Fishar #38 14s. (Box 57; Pit 107; Gallery 84); Sga Manesiere, #29 13s. (Box 60; Pit 55; Gallery 64).] Paid Barratt (wax chandler) #201 5s.; Paid Buxtons and Co., (oyl men) #135 16s. (Account Book). Receipts: #107 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: I: A New Tambourine Dance-Master Blurton (apprentice to Fishar, eleven years old, 1st appearance any stage); End I: Rural Love, as17661120; II: A Serious Dance-Miss Capon (Apprentice to Fishar, sixteen years old, 1st appearance any stage); III: A New Pantomime Ballet-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford (Apprentice to Fishar, ten years old, 1st appearance any stage as a dancer); IV: A Minuet-Fishar, Miss Capon; Double Hornpipe-Fishar, Sga Manesiere

Ballet: End: A New Grand Ballet call'd The Wapping Landlady. Jack (in Distress)-Fishar; the other Sailors-Petro, Hussey, Martin, Reynald, Curtat, King; Landlady-Miles; Milk Woman-Sga Manesiere; other women-Miss D. Twist, Miss S. Twist, Miss Barrowby, Miss Hilliard, Miss Daw, Mrs Viviez

8232
13 May 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Perry and Holtom. Charges #64 14s. [Perry paid 2@3 the charges and received against that #2 3s. of the ready money. His deficit was #5 11s. 4d. Holtom paid 1!3 the charges and was credited with 1!3 the ready money. His deficit was #2 15s. 8d. The deficits were covered by income from tickets: Perry #93 9s. (Box 24; Pit 333; Gallery 375); Holtom #33 14s. (Box 11; Pit 159; Gallery 71).] (Account Book). Receipts: #56 7s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Public Advertiser assigns Kent Actor: Morris.

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-by Desire, Mas. Harris; IV: The Female Archer, as17661215; End: Double Hornpipe, as17670427

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17670427

8233
08 October 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: RRomeo and Juliet oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Powell. Paid Jos. Besford for performing the Lyon two nights in Perseus 5s.; Paid Wm Gard for performing on the Horse and in the Lyon two nights in Perseus 7s. (Account Book). [See Perseus and Andromeda 19 and 25 Sept.] Receipts: #103 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: Pantomime Dance, as17670926

8234
06 January 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not performed these ten years. [See 12 Jan. 1758.] Paid Sarah Griffith a Bill for Green Wreaths 16s. Paid Mrs Paddick a Bill for cleaning Feathers #1 (Account Book). Receipts: #198 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice with the Metamorphoses of Harlequin

8235
10 March 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre. Received of Condell 45 Nights Fruit Rent due 8th Inst. #20 (Account Book). Paid Powell and Bickerstaffe balances due them. Paid Mrs Paddick for cleaning of feathers #1 19s. (Account Book). Receipts: #188 17s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: End of Opera: The Provenzales, as17680301

8236
18 March 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Paid to Mrs Nuttall for an engine etc. #6 6s. Paid Jas. Abbott 16s. 4d. for covering an elephant, etc. (Account Book). House charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Music: As17680219

8237
22 April 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aldridge and Miles. The Clandestine Marriage cannot be perform'd on account of Indisposition of Woodward. Charges #64 15s. 6d. Balance to Aldridge and Miles #12 12s. 6d. Paid Aldridge #6 6s. 3d. who also had from Tickets #39 13s. (Box 55; Pit 138; Gallery 52). Paid Miles #6 6s. 3d. who also had from Tickets #92 15s. (Box 140; Pit 253; Gallery 173) (Account Book). [Miles was much senior to Aldridge in serivce at cg. See note on Mrs Bulkley, 17 Nov. 1767, who had been ready in this part five months before.] Receipts: #77 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: II: The Highland Reel, as17680307 IV: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

8238
03 June 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick, Furkins, Wilkinson, Abbott, Symonds, and others. Tickets deliver'd by Pullin, Claridge, Mrs Griffiths, Bagg, Bassan, Stephenson and Constable will be admitted. [Green and Ansell paid up their deficiencies for 2 June.] @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value 1!2 Value@Quick 1 20 31 #8 18s. #3 9s.@Furkins 12 52 34 #13 6s. #6 13s.@Wilkinson 27 10 16 #10 3s. #5 1s. 6d.@Abbott 5 56 65 #16 12s. #8 6s.@Simmonds 5 36 24 #8 9s. #4 4s. 6d.@Pullen 2 71 46 #14 10s. #7 5s.@Claridge 8 24 1 #4 11s. #2 5s. 6d.@Griffiths 20 27 #6 1s. #3 6d.@Bagg 36 24 #7 4s. #3 12s.@Bassan 5 50 16 #8 13s. #4 6s. 6d.@Stephenson 23 78 45 #20 6d. #10 3s.@Asbury Gallery 22 8 #3 8s. #1 14s.@Total House value #120 1s. plus the receipts.@ Paid Master Harris for his performance this season #4 4s. Receipts: #25 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Miss Stede, 2nd time (scholar of Fishar)

8239
10 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wignell and Barnshaw. As the Indisposition of the vocal performers renders it impossible to perform the Jovial Crew, Messrs Wignell and Barnshaw, hope their Friends will honour them with their company to the above Comedy, to which, tickets delivered for the Jovial Crew, will be taken. Charges #64 10s. Deficit to actors #25 2s. covered by income form tickets: Wignell #85 (Box 69; Pit 347; Gallery 157); Barnshaw #96 1s. (Box 88; Pit 381; Gallery 169) (Account Book). Mrs Paddick paid up her 1!2 value of tickets for the 6th Inst. Paid Kirkman for a new Harpsichord and tuning the old one #62 3s. (Account Book). Receipts: #39 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17680920

8240
15 February 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: LLalauze stated he had been 42 years an inhabitant of this country,--retained by Rich 32 years, who promis'd him an annuity of #50 a year whenever he was incapable of performing. This was not in his Will but the Executors allowed it him 3 years. Having sold the property they discontinued it; The new parties engag'd him last year but they would not this season. So Foote gave him the House of 14 Feb. at Haymarket gratis (Winston MS 10). Paid Henry Williams for performing the Bells 4 nights #1 10s. Paid Wm Gard 4 nights in the Lyon 10s.--and Thos Singleton for same 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #188 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Jubilee

Dance: IV: Dutch Dance, [The Dutch Milk Maid] as17691111

8241
24 February 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A tragedy [by John Hoole] never performed. Paid Williams for performing the Bells 3 nights #1 2s. 6d.; Paid Gard and Singleton each 7s. 6d. for performing 3 nights in the Lyon (Account Book). [Mainpiece reviewed in the Freeholder's Magazine, March.] Receipts: #227 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Entertainment: II: Concert on Hautboy-Simpson

8242
26 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Charges #65 17s. Deficit to Hull #17, covered by #121 3s. from tickets (Box 233; Pit 280; Gallery 209). Paid Hull for The Garland, The Spanish Lady and Altering the Comedy of Errors #50. Paid Miss Mary Twist and Miss Charlotte Twist for walking 12 nights in Man and Wife #1 10s. apiece (Account Book). Receipts: #48 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Song: II: The Blackbirds, a Cantata-Miss Potts

Dance: End: The Reel, as17700329

8243
21 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sarjant and his Son (Book and Box-keeper). Charges #81 5s. plus extras #3 5s., total #84 10s. Deficit to Sarjant #20 18s., covered by income from tickets #166 14s. (Box 272; Pit 252; Gallery 109), half value of tickets paid up by Ansell, Symonds, Abbott, Furkins, Mrs Trott, Pilfold, Doe and Claridge. Paid half year's Paving tax for theatre #18 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

8244
18 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid Hodgson (coal merchant) #27 14s.; Paid Varley (plumber) #11 7s. (Account Book). Receipts: #229 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

8245
26 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Ben Jonson, not acted these 20 years. [See 7 Oct. 1754.] Paid Bellamy & Settree (mercers) #300 7s.; Paid Scott (copper lace man) #265 7s. (Account Book). Receipts: #191 9s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

8246
12 December 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Words of the Epithalamium [in the Tragedy] to be had at the theatre. Paid Shropshire for brushes #4 10s.; Paid Rowson (gunsmith) #2 9s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #151 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zobeide

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

8247
25 January 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Farce [by a Gentleman from Dublin] never performed. [It was fitted to the stage as an afterpiece, and provided with a Prologue by Colman. Advertisement for the Edition of 1772 indicates that it was "attempted to be acted, "but was damned. Taken principally from Moliere's Marriage Force. See account of damning of Farce, in Town and Country Magazine (Theatre No. XXXIII), before last act was over by a candle being thrown on stage.] Paid one year's ground rent for theatre due Mich. last #100 minus land tax of #16 5s.: Total #83 15s.; Paid ditto for the New Building adjoining the theatre #30, minus Land Tax of #4 17s. 6d.: Total #25 2s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #198 16s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: An Hour Before Marriage

8248
06 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tenth Night for the Tragedy. Paid Sarjant for a Trumpet Banner #2 10s. Paid Cooper (printer) #45 (Account Book). Receipts: #161 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zobeide

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

8249
19 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid Pattinson (tallow chandler) #63; Barrett (wax chandler) #11 17s. 9d.; Advanc'd Perry as per note #12 12s. Paid Walker for a silver Tissue suit of Women's Cloaths #11 11s. (Account Book). Receipts: #142 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

8250
24 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The scenes are of the Stockwell Witchcraftv, according to Theatrical Review, II, 103. See 31 Jan. and 8 Feb.] Paid Patrick (tinman) #33 4s.; Paid Tinsdale (haberdasher) #3 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #236 15s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton with Alterations