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5670 results for: Keyword - Cross
We found 4062 matches on Roles/Actors, 2690 matches on Event Comments, 1239 matches on Performance Comments, 235 matches on Performance Title, and 110 matches on Author.

3726
25 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Author (Cross). Afterpiece: By Desire. [Tickets see 22 Feb.] Receipts: #87 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eugenia

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: II: Grand Provincial Dance, as17520204

3727
31 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. Mr Ross did Romeo & spoke an Elogium upon Shakespear in ye form of ye Monument in the Abby (Cross). Last time of performing the mainpiece this season. Nothing under full prices. After the play an Elogium wrote by Dryden, concluding with Milton's Epitaph to the Memory of Shakespeare, spoken by Ross representing the Shade of Shakespeare as figured on his monument in Westminster Abbey. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

3728
07 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By command. P. of Wales & Broth &c. (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

3729
17 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Pritchard, Treasurer. Tickets his house next the Chapel in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields. This day publish'd at 1s.A Poetical Epistle from Shakespear in Elysium, to Mr Garrick at Drury Lane Theatre. Printed for J. Newberry (General Advertiser). Old Jack Ray, dy'd (Cross). Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

Song: I: Master Vernon

3730
18 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Mrs Norris was to had her Benefit (ye Inconst) this Night but gave it up-her Tickets came in Notwithstanding (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

3731
20 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Horton, an old Actress, & ye Sub: Treasurer (Cross). Positively the last time of Mr Garrick's performing the character of Fribble this season. Tickets deliver'd out for the Fatal Marriage will be taken. Tickets to be had of Mrs Horton at Mr Havard's in Broad Court, Bow-Street, Covent Garden; and of the Sub-treasurer at Mrs Quaker's in Broad St., Soho, and at the Stage Door (playbill). On Monday next The Recruiting Officer with several entertainments for the Benefit of Mr George Burton, Mr Harvey and Mrs Addison. Receipts: #175 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex; Or, The Unhappy Favorite

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: Master Vernon

3732
29 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for one Jones and a Dang Master (Cross). No building on stage. Tickets deliver'd out for the Confederacy will be taken. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Janeton Auretti

Song: Beard

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): John Cartwright Cross

Music: CConcerto on Violin cello-Mr Jones

3733
17 October 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDevisse, Auretti, Ferrere Danc'd (Cross). Receipts: #60 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: Several New Entertainments, particularly: Les Bucherons-M Devisse, M Ferrere; Le Matelot Basque, as17521005; Les Tonneliers de Strasburgh-Devisse, Mad Auretti, Piettro, Miss Rayner

3734
07 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: More noise (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

3735
08 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Still a noise (Cross). Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

3736
09 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: noise still (Cross). [See 6 Nov.] Mainpiece: It appears that Mr Garrick is solicitous to banish vice from the theatre, by his having first omitted to exhibit that scandalous piece the London Cuckolds on the evening of the Lord Mayor's Day [9 Nov.] contray to immemorial custom, and the practice of the other house. He has also made a vigorous attempt to exclude folly but the friends of folly appeared to be so numerous, that he could not effect his purpose (Gentleman's Magazine, Nov. 1752, p. 535). Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Dance: As17521102

3737
13 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: great Nreat Noise--before the Entertainm[en]t began Mr Garrick went on & said--Gent: as we find the new Scene, tho' it pleases some, offends others & as we wou'd please all, we shall omit it after this Night--but I hope when the other House is merry with us, we may be merry with them--the Song was printed & thrown down from ye Slips--great Noise--great applause--some blows in the pit--some Gents insisted upon its being given out again, wch Mr Lacy did--the Inspector very Impudent to-day (14th) about Woodward for saying I thank you to Fitzpatrick who threw an Apple at him from ye Stage Box on Fryday last--the fool against us to-day (Cross). [Cross omits receipts this night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

3738
21 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: All quiet, only one blast of a Catcall (Cross). N.B. There is a New Passage open'd into Bridges Street for the conveniency of Ladies coming in coaches. [This notice appears on the three subsequent Bills.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: As17521106

3739
22 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: 2 or 3 hiss'd W or 3 hiss'd $Woodward every time he went on or off (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17521116, but Mrs Preston, Miss _Raynor

3740
25 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: All quiet--over (Cross). Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: Several New Entertainments:A Dutch Dance-Mad Auguste lately arriv'd from Paris,; The Hungarian Peasants-Ferrere, Mad Auretti; Comic Dance-Devisse, Mlle Auguste

3741
15 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: All quiet (Cross). Don Sebastian is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Mossop's indisposition. Receipts: #60 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17521122; III: A Hornpipe-Master Granier

3742
26 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The afterpiece] An Arabian Night's Entertainment produc'd in two parts with New Scenes, Habits, Music & Decorations. Full Prices. Went off with great applause (Cross). It is hop'd no Gentlemen will take it ill that they cannot possibly be admitted behind the Scenes or into the Orchestra, the Entertainment depending chiefly upon the Machinery and Music. [Repeated on all Genii Bills this season.] This new entertainment...hath fully decided the controversy and fix'd the superiority of Pantomime to Drury Lane Theatre, as it had before had of almost everything else;...for beauty of scenery, elegance of dress, propriety of music, and regularity of designs, it exceeds all the boasted grandeur of Harlequin Sorcerer, or of any I have seen either separate or collective. The last scene beggars all description; the most romantic Eastern account of sumptuous palaces are but faint to this display of beauty, this glow of light, this profusion of glittering gems, which adorn the whole, and much exceeds all expectations. I rejoice and congratulate myself that I am not of that modern way of thinking (or rather seeming to think) that nothing can deserve the epithet good from their superior taste, but while I am pleased will own it, and not endeavor to gain the character of a critick, ar the expense of violation of my senses (Scourge No. 14, quoted in the Gentleman's Magazine, Dec. 1752, p. 582). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Genii, Arabian Night's Entertainment

3743
09 January 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: KKing came but did not send till 2 o'clock, so not in the Bills (Cross). Full Prices. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

3744
24 January 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For ye King (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Dance: Devisse, Mlle Auguste, Mlle Auretti

3745
31 January 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Benefit] A Distress'd family had tickets (Cross). Tickets deliver'd out for Thursday the 18th, for the play As You Like It, for the benefit of a Distress'd Family will be taken this night. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

3746
01 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy has lain in & is up (Cross). [This month published, The Upper Gallery, a poem, neatly descriptive of the opening scene in a playhouse from the vantage point of the first Gallery. This is an expanded, revised and modernized version of The Upper Gallery inscribed to the Rev Dr Swift, Dublin, 1733.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

3747
03 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Both pieces by command of the] Prince of Wales, &c. (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

3748
08 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The same notice as that for 7 Feb. concerning Havard's illness, and hoping no gentlemen will desire to be admitted behind scenes, appears on the bottom of the playbill this night.] Went off very well (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

3749
23 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: RRichard by Mr Brown from Bath very bad but no hissing (Cross). The Genii oblig'd to be deferred till Tomorrow (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #50 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: Mlle Auretti

3750
03 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Dr Young-the Profits of ye Author for a Charity-Went off wth Great Applause, only a little Laughin, at Simson (Dymas) for his Dress, or manner, I cant tell (Cross). Mainpiece: Never Acted Before. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers