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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.

6201
31 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: I: A Song by Arne-Beard; II: The Anniversary Ode in Commemoration of Shakespeare, written by Havard, set to music by Dr Boyce,-Beard, Champnes

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

6202
01 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Farce was cut & went of Well. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

6203
03 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Don John-Garrick; Frederick-Palmer; Duke-Usher; Petruchio-Blakes; Antonio-Yates; 1st Constantia-Miss Macklin; Mother-Mrs Clive; Landlady-Mrs Macklin; Kinswoman-Mrs Hippisley; 2d Constantia-Miss Haughton; To conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.
Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

6204
04 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

6205
05 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye British Lying-in Hospital in Brownlow Street. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Miss Young

6206
06 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17580328

Cast
Role: Characters of the Dance Actor: Delatre, Giorgi, Lucchi, Mrs Vernon. New Habits and Decorations for the Dance.

6207
07 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Not acted these 3 years. [See 8 April 1756.] The great Demand Mrs Cibber has had for places, has oblig'd her to lay the whole Pit into the Boxes; and the Stage form'd into an Amphitheatre, where servants will be admitted to keep places. Tickets deliver'd for Barbarossa 9 March will be taken. Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: TThe Italian Peasants Dance, as17571004

6208
08 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross). The Upholsterer is deferr'd till Wednesday Next. The theatre commonly call'd the Duke of York's Theatre in York Buildings is now taken down, and dwelling houses going to be built. The beautiful ceiling was painted by Verrio, but could not be remov'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

6209
11 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. Tickets and places to be had of Yates in Catherine St., Strand, and of Varney at the Stage Door. Tickets deliver'd for the 4th will be taken. Being the Last time of Garrick's performing Kitely this Season. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Dance: New Spanish Dance, as17580410

6210
12 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Cast
Role: Dorilas Actor: Holland
Role: Erox Actor: Burton. With a Procession and a Sacrifice.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

6211
13 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

6212
14 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pritchard. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. This day publish'd, Price 1s. Brief Remarks on the Original and Present State of the Drama. To which is added Hecate's Prophecy, being a characteristic Dialogue between future Mangers and their Dependents. [William Shirley? A most virulent attack on Garrick's management as well as Rich's Quotes from the Herald No. XX, a denunciatory article on the managers, deplores the pamphleteering attempt to praise Garrick, asks "Shall he shine the God of our Idolatry, merely for excluding every other emulous and aspiring candidate?"] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Cast
Role: Valerius Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004; End: By Desire, a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard

6213
15 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Cast
Role: Jupiter Actor: Holland, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17580328

Cast
Role: Characters of the Dance Actor: Delatre, Giorgi, Lucchi, Mrs Vernon. New Habits and Decorations for the Dance.

6214
17 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Berry. Tickets of Berry at Mr Pope's Peruke Maker, Russel St., Covent Garden, and of Varney at the Stage Door, where, Places may be taken. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: IV: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

6215
19 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece, Dance, and Afterpiece: By Command of the Prince of Wales. [No receipts in Cross.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Cast
Role: Jupiter Actor: Holland, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: TThe Market, as17571126

6216
20 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Davies. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

6217
21 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Blakes. Tickets and places to be had of Blakes at his house in Duke's Court, Bow St., CG; and of Varney at the Stage Door. That there may not be any interruption to the Performance, there will be no Building on the Stage. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Ballet: The Prussian Camp. As17580328 but Officer-Blakes

Cast
Role: Characters of the Dance Actor: Delatre, Giorgi, Lucchi, Mrs Vernon. New Habits and Decorations for the Dance.

6218
22 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. [The additions, according to the Larpent MS 146, consist of a Scene between Master and a Beauv , wherein the Master's reflections are sound and moral, whilst the Beau's are frivolous and fatuous.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Performance Comment: As17571025, but Nerestan-Holland; Zara-Mrs Yates, 1st time; Melidor-_.
Cast
Role: Nerestan Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Dance: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

6219
24 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Leviez [Ballet-Master]. Tickets of Leviez at the last House on the right hand in Bedford Buildings in the Strand, and of Varney at the Stage Door, where places may be taken. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Holland
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Pritchard
Role: particularly a Grand Dance of Fantastic Spirits Actor:
Role: and a Pastoral Dance proper to the Masque Actor: Delater, Giorgi, Sga Lucchi.

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: A new Grand Dance-the Children; End Farce: Minuet-Leviez, Miss Macklin

6220
28 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Pritchard. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Sands Actor: Phillips

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Entertainment: New Magic Scene-, in the characters of Harlequin, Punch, Scaramouch, Pantaloon, Mezzetin, and Drawcansir

6221
29 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets for 8. For Miss Barton, Mrs Bradshaw, Mozeen, Miss Minors, Mrs Miller. Tickets deliver'd by Rainton, for The Inconstant, and those that could not be admitted on Thursday last to The Conscious Lovers will be taken. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

6222
01 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Distressed Widow with 4 small children. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: TheFrenchified Lady

Dance: TThe Italian Peasants, as17571004

6223
02 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton and Philips. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Not acted these 10 years. [See 18 Dec. 1749.] Music for Afterpiece compos'd by Mr Arne. Tickets deliver'd by Clough, Mossop, Peacop and Mrs Addison will be taken. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Dance: IV: A Minuet, Louvre-Noverre, Mrs Addison

6224
03 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Rooker and Chamness. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

6225
04 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Austin and Wood. Wood, Sub Treasurer (Winston MS 8). No Building on Stage. Receipts: #140 (Cross). [The Prologue was The Night's Adventure of a Buck, Larpent MS 147. The mid-portion shows the Buck at the playhouse]: @First to the Playhouse,--not to hear the play--@I went to pass an hour or so away,@For what to me are Shakespears, Otways, Rowes,@Their, Jaffiers, Bajazets, andRomeos?@Such mouthing rascals give no joy to me@I get behind the scenes, and there d'ye see,@I strut, and ogle, pull the girls about@Stand in the way, and put the actors out.@These, these are joys, which only Bucks can know,@And all the pleasures playhouses bestow...

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Entertainment: TheNew Magic Scene in the characters of Harlequin, as17580428