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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.

8526
15 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [G$Genest notes Berry's performance of Sir Epicure in this piece as his last appearance on the stage.] Receipts: #170 (Cross); #183 1s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

8527
19 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Receipts: #213 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Sg Giorgi, Sga Lucchi

8528
22 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #200 (Cross); #194 16s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

8529
26 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes and Amphitheatre on Stage. Receipts: #230 (Cross ); Charges #60 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

8530
27 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. Part of pit laid into Boxes, Amphitheatre on Stage. Receipts: #180 (Cross); Charges #63 ( Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

8531
29 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit fot Beard. Pit laid into boxes, Amphitheatre on stage. Receipts: #280 (Cross); Charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: I: A New Ballad-Beard; II: The Goldfinch-Miss Young; III: A Bacchanalian Song compos'd by Dr Boyce-Beard; V: A New Comic Dialogue compos'd by Dr Boyce-Beard, Miss Young

8532
02 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Receipts: #180 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: II: A Bacchanalian Song-Beard; V: The new Dialogue of Jenny and Kate-Beard, Miss Young

8533
03 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #108 2s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Stepmother

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

8534
17 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fleetwood. Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

8535
18 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pritchard. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Farce for last time this season. Tickets of Miss Pritchard in Great Queen St., lif; and at stage door. Receipts: #260 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

8536
19 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. Tickets of Holland, at his lodgings next door to the Bedford Arms, in the Piazza, Covent Garden; and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #170 (Cross); Charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

8537
24 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Miss Young had tickets. Receipts: #150 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Song: I: Johnny and Kate-Beard, Miss Young; III: A Cantata-Miss Young; IV: Miss Young

8538
25 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. Full Prices. Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

8539
26 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Obrien. Afterpiece: By particualr Desire, being the last Time of Performing in this Season. No Building on the Stage. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: TThe Swiss, as17590221

8540
01 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [This month published Observations on the Use of Theatres, their present regulations and possible improvements. Price 1s. Printed for Cooper. See review in Gentleman's Magazine (p. 232). Proposal is that the "conduct of theatrical entertainments be for the future taken under the care of the goverment, and a person of judgment and integrity appointed by the name of comptroller, or conductor of the stage, who alone shall determine what old plays shall be acted, and what new ones received; and who shall take charge of the money received, and defray the necessary expenses, accounting for the remainder to the public. The author seemingly Dr John Hill, lately (see 21 Dec. 1758) upset by the failure of his farce, The Rout. (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #108 (Cross); #122 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

8541
02 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Vernon and Rooker. Receipts: #140 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: I: The Swiss, as17590221; III: A Hornpipe-Mrs Vernon

8542
03 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. Receipts: #150 (Cross); charges #63. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

8543
05 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #108 (Cross); #108 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

8544
08 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

8545
08 May 1759 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Subscriptions for the fall season may be taken at Andrew Drummond's, Bankers, at Charing Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Farnace

8546
19 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Verney (Housekeeper). Observations on the Importance of Theatres, with computation of the Sum they might raise by Taxation, published at 1s. Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

8547
24 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bride, Dunbarr, Smith, Goodwin. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: III: Miss Young

8548
25 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

8549
31 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: We borrow'd Clarke for Osman. #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

8550
04 June 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: & a new P a new +Prologue upon the Prince Wales's birth-day, being now 21. So ended the Season. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab