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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Cross and Wife"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Cross and Wife")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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6613 results for: Keyword - Cross and Wife
We found 3047 matches on Event Comments, 2525 matches on Performance Title, 1626 matches on Performance Comments, 110 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5501
29 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

5502
01 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Cast
Role: Cratander Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

5503
05 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. We hear that the play of the Mourning Bride will be performed at Drury Lane on 7 March, for the benefit of Mrs Pritchard. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: IV: A Comic Dance introduc'd-Harvey, Sga Piettro

5504
07 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. The Comedy of Every Man in His Humour, will be played again on Tuesday, the 10th of March for the Benefit of Mr Woodward. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Cast
Role: Northumberland Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: As17520204

5505
08 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMacbeth as written by Shakespeare. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

5506
10 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TTancred and Sigismunda is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of a principal performer. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: As17511009, but Mr Strictland-Yates.
Cast
Role: Mr Strictland Actor: Yates.
Role: Strictland Actor: Berry
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Yates

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Song: II: Haughty Strephon-Master Vernon[, as17520124

5507
13 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

5508
13 February 1752 @ Castle Tavern

Event Comment: By order of the Town. None to be admitted without tickets at 2s. 6d. each. The Roarings of the Lion disturbing some of the inhabitants of Covent Garden, his Leonic Majesty has adjudged it necessary to remove from that end of town to the place of performance. To begin at 7 p.m. [See Cross, History of Henry Fielding, II, 409, for an account of this piece and the way it was stopped by officers while the performance was in progress.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grand Composition Of Fun And Music

Performance Comment: But advertised (10 Feb.) as a Decision of the Match so long depending between Sir Alexander Drawcansir, Knt. and their Lownesses of Grub Street, on which large bets are depending. It is thought the Knowing Ones will be greatly taken in. A piece of Witchcraft from Macbeth-; A Town and a Country piece between a Blood and a Blockhead-; A curious examination before Mr Justice Bobadil-; A Phenomenon of High Humbug-; A Piece from the Brazen Head-; A solo on a very uncommon instrument imported from the Antipodes-Mynheer eht soumaf dna deifiton reddalb dna grirts saila Len Roop.; An Apparition of a Ghost-; A barbarous cruel bloody and inhuman committed by the Man Mountain in Rocky Termagant, in a new Taste. To conclude with a dying Fall and the Birth, Parentage and Education of Fun. (General Advertiser). A barbarous cruel bloody and inhuman committed by the Man Mountain in Rocky Termagant, in a new Taste. To conclude with a dying Fall and the Birth, Parentage and Education of Fun. (General Advertiser).
Cast
Role: A Town and a Country piece between a Blood and a B Actor:

5509
15 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: GGrand Provincial Dance, as17520204

5510
27 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

5511
05 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

5512
07 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. By Particular Desire. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Servants admitted to keep places on the Stage. Ladies are desired to send servants by 3 o'clock. Play to begin at 6. Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Pritchard in Great Queen Street, and at the stage door of the theatre. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Lottery

Cast
Role: To conclude with a Pastoral Dance Actor: Harvey, Sg and Sga Piettero, Mad Janeton Auretti, etc.

Dance: Mad Auretti

5513
12 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Mossop. Tickets to be had of Mr Mossop, at his Lodgings in Southampton Street, Covent Garden; and at the stage door of the theatre. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-Mossop first time; Iago-Montgomery from Dublin; his first appearance in England; Cassio-Palmer; Roderigo-Yates; Desdemona-Miss Bellamy; Emelia-Mrs Pritchard; Brabantio-Berry; Lodovico-Blakes.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

5514
14 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Bellamy. No Building on stage. Part of Pit only [laid into boxes]. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets at her house in Thrift St., Soho. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: A Provincial Dance-Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

5515
16 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mad Auretti. Pit and Boxes together & Amphitheatre on stage. Tickets and Places to be had of Mad Auretti at her house in Leicester Fields; and at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: As17520210, but Strictland-Berry; Milliner-_; Tester-_; Buckle-_; Valet-_; Simon-_; Landlady-_.
Cast
Role: Strictland Actor: Berry
Role: Mr Strictland Actor: Yates.
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Yates

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: Les Characters de la Danse-Madam Auretti; II: A Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; III: A Chacone in Italian Characters- Harlequin Mad Auretti; Polonese Sg Piettro, Mad Janeton Auretti; Scaramouch, Punch, Messitin, Pantaloon, Pierot, others; IV: A Tambourine-Master Pietro; V: The Louvre, Minuet-Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

5516
17 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Dexter. Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. Tickets to be had of Dexter at his lodgings at Mr Gibson's in James Street, Covent Garden; at the Grecian Coffee House, in Deveraux Court; and at the Stage Door of the Theatre where Places may be taken. Receipts. #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

Song: I: Mattocks

5517
19 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Last time of performing Mainpiece this season. Tickets to be had of Mrs Ward, next door to the Chapel in Little Wild-Street, near Drury Lane; and at the Stage Door of the Theatre, where places for the boxes may be taken. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

5518
21 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Beard. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Part of Pit rail'd into boxes. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Doors open at half past three. Tickets at Mr Beard's lodgings, Russel St., Covent Garden. Last till Holidays. Receipts: #250 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Song: II: A New Cantata (compos'd by Mr Arne)-Beard; III: Singing-Master Vernon; IV: The Incantation Song in Dryden's Indian Queen (composed by Purcell)-Beard

5519
30 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: A Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

5520
01 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Blakes. Tickets at his house in Cranbourn-Alley, Leicester-Fields; and at stage door. Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: GGrand Provincial Dance, as17520204

5521
02 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Mathews. Places at stage door, and at Mathews in Long-Acre, near St Martin's Lane. Receipts. #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Cast
Role: Cratander Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Lottery

Cast
Role: To conclude with a Pastoral Dance Actor: Harvey, Sg and Sga Piettero, Mad Janeton Auretti, etc.

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-; The Little Swiss; End: The Grand Provincial Dance, as17520204

5522
09 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mills. Tickets deliver'd out by Taswell, Sg Piettro, and Mr Oswald, as well as those for Lady Jane Gray will be taken. Receipts: #128 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Lottery

Cast
Role: To conclude with a Pastoral Dance Actor: Harvey, Sg and Sga Piettero, Mad Janeton Auretti, etc.

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Janeton Auretti, Master Piettro

5523
10 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sowdon. No building on the stage on account of the Coronation. [With] The Death of the Duke of Buckinghamv; the Tryal and Divorce of Queen Catherinev; The Death of Cardinal Wolseyv; the Christening of Princess Elizabethv; and many other historical passages. Tickets to be had of Sowdon, next door to the Black Lyon, in Little Russel-St., Covent Garden; at Will's Coffee House in Cornhill; at Mr Thomas Sowdon's in Blackman St., Southwark, and at the stage door. Mainpiece: Not acted in 6 years [see 1 Jan. 1746]. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Performance Comment: King-Sowdon; Wolsey-Mossop, 1st time; Buckingham-Ross, 1st time; Norfolk-Palmer; Suffolk-Blakes; Surrey-Lee; Cranmer-Havard; Gardiner-Taswell; Sandys-Shuter; Lord Chamberlain-Winstone; Anne Bullen-Mrs Mills; Queen-Mrs Pritchard; Cornwell-Mozeen; Patience (with a proper song)-Miss Norris. Exact representation of the Coronation.
Cast
Role: Sandys Actor: Shuter

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

Performance Comment: As17520406 but Fairlove-_; Loveland-_.
Cast
Role: Loveland Actor: Simpson

5524
11 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. Tickets at his house in Broad Court, upper end of Bow St., Covent Garden; Bedford Coffee House; and at Stage Door. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Dance: V: A Dance-Sg Piettro, Janeton Auretti, Master Piettro

Song: II: Dryden's Incantation Song-Beard

5525
13 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs James and Miss Minors. No building on stage. Tickets of Mrs James at her lodgings at Mr Saunder's Carpenter, in Little Wild St., Lincoln's Inn Fields; Miss Minors' at Mr Nicholl, a Baker in Catherine St., and at stage door. An Information was given to Henry Fielding, Esq; that a Set of Barber's apprentices, journeymen staymakers, maid-servants, &c. had taken a large Room at the Black Horse in the Strand, to act the tragedy of The Orphan; the Price of Admittance One Shilling. About eight o'clock the said Justice issued his warrant, directed to Mr Welch, High Constable, who apprehended the said actors, and brought them before the said Justice, who, out of compassion to their youth, only bound them over to their good behavior. They were all conducted through the streets in their Tragedy Dresses, to the no small Diversion of the Populace. (General Advertiser). Receipts: #138 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: IV: Sg Piettro, Janeton Auretti, Master Piettro