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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,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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11393 results for: Keyword - Mr Richard Cross
We found 6750 matches on Event Comments, 2923 matches on Performance Comments, 2104 matches on Author, 1450 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

8426
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

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

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

8427
15 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17580328

8428
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

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: TThe Market, as17571126

8429
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

8430
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

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Dance: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

8431
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

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

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

8432
28 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

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

8433
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

8434
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

8435
03 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

8436
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

8437
08 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Ackman, Harrison, and Scrase. Tickets deliver'd by Walker will be taken. No Building on the Stage. [Genest, IV, 519, lists The Mock Doctor for the afterpiece, apparently by mistake.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Dance: A Hornpipe-Harrison

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17580421 but Blakes_

8438
10 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Simson and 3 Children. Afterpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Being the last time of performing it this season. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: A Minuet, Louvre-Master Simson, Miss Simson

8439
12 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Verney [Housekeeper]. Tickets to be had of Verney at the Stage Door. Afterpiece: By Desire (Public Advertiser), done by Children (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-Walker

8440
15 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunbar, Smith, Broad, & Bride. Mainpiece, By Desire. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

8441
18 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Veal & Foley. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: IV: Hornpipe-Walker

8442
19 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

8443
23 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: I: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

8444
26 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross). Tickets delivered out by Delatre will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Ballet: I: The Prussian Camp. As17580421

8445
29 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

8446
31 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

8447
21 September 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts. #70 (Cross); #99 0s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

8448
23 September 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross); #174, 0s, 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

8449
26 September 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #190 (Cross); #202 3s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

8450
05 October 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross); #151 6s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab