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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.

8101
16 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. [For tickets see 9 Feb., add tickets delivered for the third and sixth nights will be taken.] This Tragedy may be had at R. Francklin's in Covent Garden. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

8102
17 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: It is hoped that Ladies and Gentlemen who have taken places for this play for Monday and Tuesday will not take it ill that it is deferred for a few days, it being impossible to continue acting the principal characters without some respit (playbill). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

8103
19 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This day publish'd The Gamester, a Tragedy, as it was acted at Drury Lane. Printed for R. Franklin...and sold by R. Dodsley. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

8104
20 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser; or, Wagner and Abericock Author(s): Richard Jones

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

8105
21 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

8106
22 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

8107
24 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: N.B. Neither Prologue nor Epilogue mentioned in Bills for first 11 nights (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

8108
27 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

8109
28 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

8110
08 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Related Works
Related Work: The Brothers Author(s): Richard Cumberland

8111
13 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As a principal performer was taken ill after the play last night, the New tragedy is oblig'd to be deferred till Thursday. [Printed: The British Theatre, containing Lives of the British Dramatic poets with an account of all their plays. Also The Present state of the Stage, in Great Britain and Ireland, and the theatrical characters of the principal Performers in both kingdoms.] Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

8112
15 March 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Being the last time this season (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Dance: IIl Pastore, as17521219; Les Sabotiers Tyrolese, as17521028

8113
19 March 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Ryan. Quin did Falstaff for Ryan (Cross). The Nobility and Gentry at Bath gave Quin 100 guineas, and desir'd him to send them down so many tickets for this benefit (Gentleman's Magazine, 1753, p. 147). Pit and Boxes together at 5s. [with an Amphitheatre on stage]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I With The Humours Of Falstaff

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17521216

8114
19 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Tickets of Mrs Pritchard in Great Queen St. Lincoln's Inn-Fields, and at Stage Door. Part of the Pit will be taken into the Boxes, and servants will be admitted to keep places on the stage. [A Complaint of the Tragic Poets, addressed to Dr Young appeared in the Public Advertiser, praising him on the Brothers: "And your last efforts prove your strength divine."] Receipts: #250 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: As17521201

8115
24 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Bellamy. Afterpiece: By Desire. No part of the pit will be laid into the boxes, nor any building on the stage. Tickets of Miss Bellamy at her House in Thrift St., Soho; and at stage door. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: II: A Grand Ballet-Devisse, Mlle Auguste; V: L'Entree de Flore, as17521122, but Janeton Auretti seems to replace Mrs Preston

8116
27 March 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Cross suggests The Country Wife this night, but the Public Advertiser indicates The Miser. The Country Wife had been advertised on the advance notice.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser; or, Wagner and Abericock Author(s): Richard Jones

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: IIl Pastore, as17521219; Les Sabotiers Tyrolese, as17521028

8117
29 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Song: II: By Particular Desire, the Lass of the Mill-Beard; accompany'd on the Harp-Parry, and a piece by him on the same instrument

Dance: Devisse, Mlle Auretti

8118
02 April 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mossop. Part of Pit laid into Boxes to form Amphitheatre. Tickets to be had of Mossop, at his lodgings at Newton's Warehouse in Tavistock St., and at Stage Door. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: III: A Comic Dance-Devisse, Mlle Auguste; End: L'Entree de Flore, as17530324

8119
05 April 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. Afterpiece: By Desire. Not acted this season. [Cross lists no Receipts.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: A Comic Dance, as17530402 V: L'Entree de Flore, as17530324

Song: III: Beard

8120
09 April 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. Part of pit laid into boxes. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: Le Matelot Basque, as17521005; V: L'Entree de Flore, as17530324

8121
23 April 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

8122
28 April 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mills and Miss Minors. Tickets deliver'd by Taswell will be taken. [The Present State of the Stage commends Miss Minors in characters of awkward country girls.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

8123
02 May 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Winstone and Burton. Tickets deliver'd by Palmer and Miss Batcheldor will be taken. No building on Stage. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: MMinuet-Piettro, Miss Batcheldor

8124
08 May 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular desire. Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: MMinuet-Devisse, Mlle Janeton Auretti

8125
10 May 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnson and Sanderson. Afterpiece: For the last time this season. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Genii