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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.

8751
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

8752
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

8753
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

8754
31 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

8755
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

8756
29 September 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

8757
04 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

8758
05 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

8759
09 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

8760
11 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not acted in 9 years [but see 14 Nov. 1753]. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant Or The Sick Ladys Cure

Dance: As17591006

8761
12 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As Written by Shakespeare. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

8762
13 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: AA Letter to Garrick on Opening the Theatre, published at 1s. [See 1 Nov. for answer. This is Edward Purdon's 33-page criticism of Garrick, on his repertoire, his personnel and casting, and his secondary position to cg in the matter of decoration.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

8763
16 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Song: III: By Desire, Sweet Bird-Miss Young

8764
17 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Dance: IV: Shepherd's Holiday-Giorgi, Miss Baker

8765
18 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

8766
20 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

8767
22 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For ye Tripoline Embassrs. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

8768
23 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: bout this time in the month was printed a 42-page pamphlet, Reasons why David Garrick should not appear on the Stage, in a Letter to John Rich. This is high praise of Garrick: 'I am so blinded either by prejudice of admiration that I can see nobody else" when Garrick plays.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

8769
25 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: Italian Gardiner, as17591006

8770
02 November 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

8771
03 November 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

8772
05 November 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Abington left about this time for Ireland (Genest, IV, 574). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

8773
06 November 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. For ye Author of ye farce (not put up so). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

8774
10 November 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts not in Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

8775
12 November 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman Is A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Dance: TThe Swiss, as17591108