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13629 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.

2026
10 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: CColly Cibber dy'd (Cross). Afterpiece: By Desire. On Monday Next will be publish'd as 1s. Isabella, or the Fatal Marriage. A Play alter'd from Southern, as it is now performing at Drury Lane (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: The Market, as17571126

2027
23 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #50 2s. 6d. (Account Book). [The Public Advertiser contains the customary notice for the annual feast of the Shakespeare Society, to be at the Shakespeare's Head Tavern on 15 Feb. Signed E.B. Secretary.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

2028
28 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: 'TTis reported that her Royal Highness the Princess Carolina is dangerously indisposed (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17571223

2029
29 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Last Night the Princess Carolina dy'd & this Morning about 8 we receiv'd an order from the Chamberlain not to play 'till farther orders,--we obey'd & order ye Bills posted for this Night, to be pull'd down (Cross). [The Fatal Marriage and The Male Coquette had been scheduled.] Yesterday about 11 o'clock died at her Apartments in St James's Palace, Princess Caroline Elizabeth, 3rd daughter of our most Gracious Sovereign. Her Royal Highness was in her 45th year of her age, being born on the 10th of June 1713, and has been in a bad state of health for several years past. Her burial, it is said, is by her own Desire to be very private (Public Advertiser)

Performances

2030
12 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: To be Lett. Elegantly Furnish'd, the House of the Late Colley Cibber, Esq: in Berkley Square, the Corner of Bruton Street (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #106 3s. Gave Porters of the several Inns, #3 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

2031
23 January 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: dvertised in Public Advertiser, 19 Jan., but not 23 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

2032
31 January 1758 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A pasticcio, with libretto by G. A. Migliavacca; music by F. G. Bertoni, Handel, Davide Perez (Deutsch, Handel, p. 793). A New Opera, with new Decorations and Dances. It will be performed Tuesday and Zenobia on Saturdays (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Solimano

Dance: Signora Forti, Signora Bonomi, Grimaldi, Signora Lescot

2033
14 March 1758 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. Ths Musick newly composed by Sig Cocchi. New Clothes, Decorations, and Dances. [On Monday 13 March Sga Frasi published in the Public Advertiser thanks for those who supported her benefit (6 March) and apologized for deficiencies in the performances. Some of the principals were engaged in the run of the new tragedy [The Prophetess? Mariamne?] whose run she could not anticipate.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Issipile

2034
03 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 16 Years. [See 27 Dec. 1746.] Benefit for Shuter. Receipts: #173 16s. 6d. Tickets #150 13s. (boxes 272; pit 551). Charges: #63 (Account Book), [#325 9s. 6d. marks the largest house in money value this season. Shuter advertised his benefit early, then on 28 March inserted this puff in the Public Advertiser: [Mrs Centlivre's Comedies have a vein of pleasantry in them that will always be relish'd. She knew the Genius of this nation, and she wrote up to the spirit of it; her Bold Stroke for a Wife, was a masterpiece that much increased her reputation: it establish'd that of Kit Bullock, a smart sprightly actor. His performance of Col. Feignwell was greatly applauded. Shuter has judiciously chosen to play to at his own benefit, and everyone that knows his powers, knows he will play it at least with drollery and justice equal to him."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: SSicilian Peasants, as17571217; Fingalian Dance, as17571013

Entertainment: (BBy Desire,) End of Play: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Shuter; (By Desire,) End of Farce: Cries of London-Shuter

2035
12 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Verney [Housekeeper]. Tickets to be had of Verney at the Stage Door. Afterpiece: By Desire (Public Advertiser), done by Children (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-Walker

2036
30 June 1758 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: See 27 June. [No notice of the play appears in the Public Advertiser, 29 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

2037
07 July 1758 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: As 27 June. [No notice in Public Advertiser for 6 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

2038
19 July 1758 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: As 27 June. [Not listed in Public Advertiser, 18 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

2039
29 July 1758 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: The Entertainment...continues to be performed every Night with the usual Applause; and though the Weather has been bad, generally to a numerous and polite Company. Sga Seratina and Reinhold, greatly excel in performing their Parts, and notwithstanding it is translated from the Italian...it is so well adapted to the Musick that is it by the best judges reckoned to be extremely soft and harmonious. [It is not listed in the Public Advertiser for Monday 31 or Tuesday 1 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

2040
04 August 1758 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: As 29 July. [It is not advertised in the Public Advertiser for 3 or 5 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

2041
07 August 1758 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: As 29 July [It is not advertised in the Public Advertiser for 8 or 9 Aug]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

2042
11 August 1758 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: As 29 July [but without reference to the bad weather. It is not listed in the Public Advertiser for 12 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

2043
17 August 1758 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: As 14 Aug. [It was not advertised in the Public Advertiser for 17 or 19 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

2044
05 September 1759 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Shuter's Booth. Public Advertiser: To Don Edward Shuter, at his Dispensary in Smithfield. Air: Having lately been violently afflicted with Lowness of Spirits, from drinking, or duns, or ill-luck, or catching cold...I applied to every friend I knew etc. [A commercial puff for the good humor afforded by Shuter's show.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Floggd

2045
15 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross). [Cross suggests The Tutor as afterpiece, but Public Advertiser and playbill list Love a-la-Mode.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

2046
01 March 1760 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. Music by Perez (Public Advertiser), by several Masters (edition of 1760)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminio

Dance: Directed by Gallini. Giovanni Gallini, Mlle Asselin, Maranesi, Signora Provenzale

2047
12 May 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: As17591008, but Gayless-Davis; Guttle-Wignel; Kitty Pry-Mrs Pitt? (playbill) or Mrs Green (Public Advertiser).

Dance: III: A new Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard; End: The Knife Grinders, as17600417

2048
19 September 1760 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Shuter's Booth. [From a puff in the Public Advertiser today, it appears that performances were given at both booths on the 18th. "several heats were ran."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote In England

2049
13 January 1761 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The two new dancers who were so long expected from Italy are arrived (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Filosofo Di Campagna

2050
24 January 1761 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: N.B. The two new dancers will make their first appearance this evening (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arianna E Teseo