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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.

2376
26 April 1781 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Simonet. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mme Simonet, No. 5, Dover-street, Piccadilly. "[Vestris's] forcible manner of characterising the passions in the part of Jason distinguished him as an actor superior to all his contemporaries. Mme Simonet in Medea, it is said by the judges, is equal to him as an actress" (London Magazine, Apr. 1781, p. 156)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Piramo E Tisbe

Dance: End I: Les Caprices de Galatee, as17810329in which a Minuet, Gavotte-Simonet, ballet-Master, Simonet's Daughter, only 6 years old; and also The Devonshire Minuetas17810327Mme Simonet, Vestris Sen

Ballet: End Opera: Medee et Jason. As17810329

2377
28 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 2, Little Russell-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #165 14s. 6d. (85.14.0; 25.10.0; 0.3.6; tickets: 54.7.0) (charge: #108 14s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: and following the song A Scene from The Electio Actor: Bannister, Gaudry, Mrs Love
Role: Poor Thomas Day Actor: Bannister, Gaudry, Suett
Role: Blow high Actor: Bannister
Role: To conclude with How merrily we live Actor: Bannister, Gaudry, Mrs Cargill
Role: Dick Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

2378
30 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Prudom. Public Advertiser, 28 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Prudom, No. 8, facing the Green Park, Piccadilly. Receipts: #132 0s. 6d. (57.19.0; 18.2.6; 1.9.0; tickets: 54.10.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Cast
Role: Rashly Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End: The Dutch Quaker-Traffieri, Henry, Sga Crespi

2379
04 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Davies. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Davies, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #193 17s. (145.12; tickets: 48.5) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: A Church Actor: Yard. Poor Thomas Day-Edwin, J.? Wilson, Davies
Role: Poor Thomas Day Actor: Edwin, J.? Wilson, Davies

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

2380
09 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Du-Bellamy. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of DuBellamy, No. 6, Queen's Buildings, Brompton. Receipts: #170 17s. 6d. (60.4.0; 18.4.6; 2.1.0; tickets: 90.8.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Principal Bacchanals Actor: Bannister, Du-Bellamy

Dance: End: The Irish Fair, as17800930

Song: End II: Kate of Aberdeen-; End IV: Bessy Bell, Mary Gray-DuBellamy

2381
11 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. [Afterpiece in place of The Devil to Pay, announced on playbill of 10 May.] Tickets deliver'd by Daglish, Mrs Pulley and Miss Armstrong will be taken. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 60, Theobald's Road. Receipts: #225 18s. (37.3; 11.7; 0.4; tickets: 177.4) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Related Works
Related Work: All the World's a Stage Author(s): Isaac Jackman

Dance: End III: Minuet and Allemande-Master Daigville, Miss Armstrong; After the singing: The Force of Love, as17801018

Song: As17810504

2382
16 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Thompson, Nix, Mrs Booth & Miss Field. Public Advertiser, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Thompson, No. 7, Great Marlborough-street; of Nix, Mrs Booth and Miss Field, No. 8, Broad-court, Longacre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #180 3s. 6d. (29.15.0; 21.4.6; 0.1.0; tickets: 129.3.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17800930

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Bucks have at ye all; or, The Picture of a Playhouse-R. Palmer

2383
17 May 1781 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performance Comment: [On account of the extraordinary preparations for the Grand Entertainment to be given on Thursday next but deferred until 5 June], under the direction of Vestris Sen., the Opera proposed for this night [Public Advertiser, 16 May: La Fraschetana] is obliged to be deferred.

2384
29 May 1781 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Opera in place of La Fraschetana, announced in Public Advertiser, 28 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Barone Di Torre Forte

Dance: As17810526 throughout

Ballet: Ninette a la Cour. As17810526

2385
23 June 1781 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A revived Serious Opera, in 2 acts; the Music composed, with Improvements, by Sacchini. Public Advertiser, 25 June: On Saturday last was revived at the King's Theatre the Serious Opera of Creso [see 8 Nov. 1777], under the new title of Euriso

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Euriso

Dance: End I: Grand Serious Ballet, as17810515; Grand Chaconne, as17810515

Ballet: End Opera: Ninette a la Cour. As17810222

2386
03 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces the 1st night of The Agreeable Surprise, but Miss Harper was ill, and the farce was changed. Its substitute has not as yet come to light. Public Advertiser, 4 Sept.: Miss Harper being somewhat recovered from the indisposition which prevented her performing yesterday evening...will attempt to go through her part in The Agreeable Surprise this evening.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Cast
Role: Lord Falbridge Actor: Bannister Jun.

2387
11 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Zara, announced on playbill of 9 Oct.] Public Advertiser, 11 Oct.: Mrs Crawford refusing to fulfill her Engagement at this Theatre, Zara cannot be performed. [Throughout this season Mrs Crawford was acting at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin.] Receipts: #110 6s. 6d. (78/1/0; 31/2/0; 1/3/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Cast
Role: Rashly Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

2388
24 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: Characters by Reinhold, Wilson, Davies, Webb, Egan, Stevens, Painter, J. Wilson, Edwin; Mrs Webb, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Poussin, Miss Harper-[Cast from Public Advertiser, 26 Nov., and adjusted from HAY playbill of 4 Sept.: Compton-Reinhold; Sir Felix Friendly-Wilson; Eugene-Davies; Chicane-Webb; John-Egan; Thomas-Stevens; Stump-Painter; Cudden-J. Wilson; Lingo-Edwin; Mrs Cheshire-Mrs Webb; Cowslip-Mrs Wilson; Fringe-Mrs Poussin; Laura-Miss Harper.] hathi. hathi.

2389
08 December 1781 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Opera in place of I Viaggiatori Felici, announced in Public Advertiser, 7 Dec]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ezio

Dance: As17811128 throughout

2390
31 December 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Dodd as Sir Benjamin Backbite, but he "being taken suddenly ill Yesterday Evening, his character in The School for Scandal was obliged to be supplied by Burton" (Public Advertiser, 1 Jan. 1782).] Receipts: #217 15s. (187/8; 30/7; 0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

2391
12 January 1782 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Serious Opera in 2 acts [1st rime; author unknown]; the music by several eminent composers, under the direction of Bertoni. Books of the Opera [which are entitled Giunio Bruto], with an account of the new Dance, to be had at the Theatre. [Sga Macchierini was from the Opera, Cremona.] Public Advertiser, 14 Jan.: Pacchierotti sang "in a Stile the most superior--superior to any Singer heard in this country since Farinelli--superior to Pacchierotti himself!"

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Junius Brutus

Dance: End of Act I Divertisement Dance, as17811117; End of Act II Le Triomphe de l'Amour Conjugal, as17820110

2392
16 January 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill assigns no parts, but "In the new Pantomime last Night, Pleasure was performed by Miss Morris (for whom it was originally intended, but kindly supplied by Mrs Morton [see cast on 26 Dec] during her illness)" (Public Advertiser, 17 Jan.).] Receipts: #225 14s. (220/9; 5/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

2393
31 January 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces The Man of the World, but "The Merchant of Venice, which was performed last night (on account of Miss Younge's sudden Indisposition) was received with the greatest Applause" (Public Advertiser, 1 Feb.).] Receipts: #243 17s. (242/11; 1/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

2394
09 February 1782 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Opera in place of Ezio, announced in Public Advertiser, 8 Feb.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I New Divertisement Dance, as17820207; End of Act II Le Triomphe de l'Amour Conjugal, as17820110

2395
12 February 1782 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Opera in place of Junius Brutus, announced in Public Advertiser, 11 Feb.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ezio

Dance: As17820207 throughout

2396
16 February 1782 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Sga Allegranti continuing so much indisposed as to be unable to perform, the Comic Opera [I Viaggiatori Felici, announced in Public Advertiser, 15 Feb.] is unavoidably deferred

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ezio

Dance: End of Act I Pastoral Dance, as17811128; End of Act II New Divertisement Dance, as17820207, but omitted: Slingsby; End of Act III Le Triomphe del'Amour Conjugal, as17820110

2397
21 February 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 3rd piece [1st time; past 2, by Matthew Feilde. MS: Larpent 585; not published; synopsis of plot in Public Advertiser, 22 Feb.]: With New Overture and Music, composed by [Michael] Arne. New Dresses, Scenes and Decorations. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #247 12s. (243/19/6; 3/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatic Puffers

Afterpiece Title: Vertumnus and Pomona

Dance: End of Epilogue a new Pastoral Dance, Palemon and Lavinia, by Aldridge, Langrish, Mrs Davenett, Miss Francis, Miss Rowson, Miss Besford

2398
23 February 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Variety is unavoidably deferred [Public Advertiser, 26 Feb.: on account of King's illness] till Monday next, when it will certainly be performed for the First Time. Receipts: #118 1s. 6d. (85/3/0; 32/16/0; 0/8/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece The Distress'd Lovers, as17820219, but omitted: Miss Armstrong

2399
28 February 1782 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Viganoni being taken ill and unable to perform, I Viaggiatori Felici [announced in Public Advertiser, 27 Feb.] is unavoidably deferred

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ezio

Dance: End of Act I pastoral Dance, as17811117, but added: with a Pas Seul by Mlle Simonet; End of Act II New Divertisement Dance, as17820216; End of Act III Rinaldo and Armida, as17820223

2400
11 March 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece Public Advertiser erroneously lists Mrs Abington in place of Mrs Mattocks; see 29 Nov. 1782.] Receipts: #211 14s. (208/5; 3/9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin