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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Richard Cross"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Richard Cross")') 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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11424 results for: Keyword - Mr Richard Cross
We found 6756 matches on Event Comments, 2923 matches on Performance Comments, 2144 matches on Author, 1450 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2826
08 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: KK. & Q. Lear-Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

2827
13 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: LLear. Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

2828
19 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: OOde, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The Ode

2829
24 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Theatrical Fund. Kitely-Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Pit and Boxes laid together. Ad[mission] to Boxes only through Boxes (Winston MS 10). Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: V: The Butterfly-Daigville, Sga Vidini

2830
16 November 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Kitely-$Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Everyman In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

2831
20 November 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Sir John Brute, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

2832
23 November 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Ranger, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Tomorrow, A New Comedy, never perform'd, call'd 'Tis Well It's No Worse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

2833
28 November 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Lusignan, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

2834
04 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Felix, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

2835
06 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Drugger, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Cymbeline Deferr'd on account of Mrs Barry's indisposition

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

2836
28 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Sir John Brute, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

2837
04 January 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Leon, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

2838
08 January 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Leon, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

2839
10 January 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Ranger, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

2840
24 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Theatrical Fund. Afterpiece: By Desire. Pit and Boxes together. Play begins half past six. Benedick, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). No admittance into Pit or Boxes but with tickets. Ladies urged to come early to get to their places with greater Conveniency

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: At End of the Country Dance: an Allemande-Daigville, Sga Vidini

2841
01 June 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Leon-$Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). House. So Ends this Season. 61 different Plays; 37 different Farces; 190 Nights in all (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels-Atkins

2842
16 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Title Unknown

2843
18 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "A new Tragedy, called Eloisa [and Richard Coeur de Lion, both announced on playbill of 16 Dec. were] to have been represented last night; but on account of the illness of Farren [were] obliged to be deferred, and Fontainbleau, with Hob in the Well were announced [in playbill of this present night], but on account of the sudden indisposition of Edwin...both pieces were obliged to be changed to Henry IV, with Barataria" (Public Advertiser, 19 Dec.). Receipts: #117 0s. 6d. (115.0.0; 2.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Performance Comment: See17861122, but Sir Richard Vernon-; Francis-Sir Richard Vernon and Francis not acted, respectively, by Farren, Edwin [their substitutes not known].their substitutes not known].
Cast
Role: Sir Richard Vernon Actor:
Role: Francis Actor: Sir Richard Vernon and Francis not acted, respectively, by Farren, Edwin

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

2844
30 August 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer [whose 1st recorded appearance as King Richard was at Canterbury, 8 Mar. 1780]. Morning Herald, 26 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 39, Great Pultney-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Of Shakespeare Or Humours And Passions

Performance Comment: Given in a regular representation of several of his most favourite and capital Scenes. With Scenery and Dresses suited to the Characters and their situations. The inimitable Scenes of the Poet, selected for the Purpose, and digested into Five Acts, will exemplify in the strongest colours of our immortal Bard, Cruelty, Vanity, Ambition, Rusticity, Tyranny-; [Act I. Cruelty, in The Merchant of Venice [IV. i]. Shylock-Palmer; Anthonio-Aickin; Bassanio-C. Kemble; Gratiano-R. Palmer; Portia-Mrs Kemble; [Act II. Vanity, in the First Part of Henry IV [parts of II. iv]. Sir John Falstaff-Fawcett; Prince of Wales-Palmer Jun.; Francis (for that night only)-Bannister Jun.; [Act III. Ambition, in King Henry the Eighth [parts of III. ii]. Cardinal Wolsey (1st time)-Palmer; King Henry-R. Palmer; [Act IV. Rusticity, in As You Like it [III. iii]. Touchstone-Bannister Jun.; Audrey-Mrs Harlowe; [Act V. Tyranny, in King Richard the Third [parts of I. ii; II. ii; and V]. King Richard (1st time)-Palmer; King Henry-Aickin; Richmond (1st time)-Palmer Jun.; Lady Anne-Miss Logan.
Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Hodge Podge or A Receipt to make a Benefit

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Song: In 2nd piece: Mad Bess (in character)-Miss Leak; a Welch Song (in character)-Mrs Bland; The Waiter-Fawcett

Entertainment: In 2nd piece: Imitations-Caulfield

2845
15 February 1675 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calisto Or The Chaste Nimph

Performance Comment: Edition of 1675: Prologue-; Calisto-The Lady Mary; Nyphe-The Lady Anne; Jupiter-The Lady Henrietta Wentworth; Juno-The Countess of Sussex; Psecas-The Lady Mary Mordaunt; Diana-Mrs [Margaret] Blagge; Mercury-Mrs Jennings; Nymphs attending Diana-The Countess of Darby, The Countess of Pembroke, The Lady Katherine Herbert, Mrs Fitz-Gerald, Mrs Frazier; [The Persons of Quality of the Men that Danced-His Grace the Duke of Monmouth, The Viscount Dunblaine, The Lord Daincourt, Mr Trevor, Mr Harpe, Mr Lane[, Mr Leonard, Mr Franshaw]; [In the Prologue were Represented, The River Thames-Mrs Moll? Davis; Peace-Mrs Mary? Knight; Plenty-Mrs Charlotte? Butler; The Genius of England-Mr Turner; Europe-Mr Hart; Asia-Mr Richardson; Africa-Mr Marsh Jun; America-Mr Ford; [In the Chorusses betwixt the Acts: Strephon-Mr Hart; Coridon-Mr Turner; Sylvia-Mrs Davis; Daphne-Mrs Knight; Two African Women-Mrs Butler, Mrs Hunt; The Epilogue-Jupiter.
Cast
Role: Asia Actor: Mr Richardson

Afterpiece Title: Calistos Additional performers

2846
15 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

2847
14 November 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist Or The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

2848
November 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess Or The Generous Portuguese

Performance Comment: The performers are listed in Add. MSS. 15, 318, and in a printed version, The Four Seasons; or, Love in every Age (1699). These two sources are essentially similar, but as they occasionally supplement each other, the following is a composite of the two sources: Prologue-Mr Powell; The Epilogue-Penkethman, Mrs Rogers; Prologue to The Four Seasons-Mr Leveridge; Armusia-Powell; Ruidias-Mills; Piniero-Thomas; King of Tidero-Evans; Governor or Tyrant-Johnson; King of Bokam-Bullock; Prince of Syana-Mrs Kent; Quisara-Mrs Rogers; Panura-Mrs Wilkins; Act II: A Masque The Music by Daniel Purcel. The Words fitted to the Notes by the Author-Leveridge, Freeman, Pate, Miss Campion, Magnus's Boy, Miss Lindsey; Act III: A Song set by Daniel Purcell-; Act IV: A Dialogue between a Clown and his Wife set by Leveridge-Pate, Leveridge; An Incantation set by Mr D. Purcell-Bowen, Freeman, Pate; The Enthusiastick Song Set by Mr Leveridge-Mr Leveridge; Act V: The Four Seasons Set by Mr Jeremy Clarke-Leveridge, Freeman, Miss Campion, Magnus's Boy, Miss Lindsey, Pate, Crossfield.
Cast
Role: Mr Jeremy Clarke Actor: Leveridge, Freeman, Miss Campion, Magnus's Boy, Miss Lindsey, Pate, Crossfield.

2849
December 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles Or Iphigenia In Aulis

2850
23 August 1749 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Cross and Bridges' Booth, opposite the Hospital Gate. A new Dramatick Droll...being founded on a Story in Real Life, as related in the Memoirs of the celebrated Mrs Constantia Phillips. In which will be introduc'd a New Scene of Bedlam...Interspers'd witn a Merry Interlude call'd The Jovial Tars...with the Comical Humours of Nurse Prate and Will Bowling the Jovial Tar; as also of Jack Hanspite, Nick Hatchway, and Simon Bucket, Sailors; with Mary the Chambermaid, Susan of the Dairy, Kate of the Kitchen, and Nan the Spinster. To begin each day at noon. An extraordinary band of music is provided. Prices: 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Lunatick Or The Generous Sailor

Afterpiece Title: Modern Madness or A Touch of the Times

Performance Comment: Keeper-Bridges; Clack-Smith; Master Clack-Master Cross; Mrs Clack-Mrs Daniel; Madam Taste-Mrs Cross; Solomon Overzeal-Clough; Modern Poet-Cross.
Cast
Role: Master Clack Actor: Master Cross
Role: Madam Taste Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Modern Poet Actor: Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee Ball a Grand Scene

Monologue: 1749 8 24 bf I+Interlude The Jovial Jack Tars, or All Well Match'd. Nurse Prate-Mrs Cross; Mary-Mrs Daniel; Jack Bridle-Cross; Will Bowling-Clough

Performance Comment: Nurse Prate-Mrs Cross; Mary-Mrs Daniel; Jack Bridle-Cross; Will Bowling-Clough.
Cast
Role: Nurse Prate Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Jack Bridle Actor: Cross

Dance: TThe Medley of Jokes-; the French Peasants-Master Matthews, Mrs Annesley