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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.

8801
27 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

8802
28 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

8803
29 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

8804
01 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Henry Jones. Afterpiece: [See note under cg play this night. During this year appeared An Essay Upon the Present State of the Theatre, in France, England, and Italy, a "work absolutely necessary to be read by every lover of Theatrical Exhibitions," printed for J. Pottinger. It contains twenty-two chapters on tragedy, thirteen on comedy, opera, authors, and the art of acting. Pages 147-51 discuss the obligation of English farces to French ones.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

8805
02 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

8806
04 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

8807
05 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

8808
07 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

8809
10 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. I slept [?] at Drury Lane before the play & was at my Office, it was a cold frostly night (Hailey, "Brietzcke Diary," Vol. 197, p. 69). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

8810
11 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never Acted There. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

8811
14 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

8812
18 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. 3 of ye Young Princesses there-not in ye Bills. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

8813
19 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

8814
21 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

8815
22 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

8816
25 February 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Aquileia

8817
25 April 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cross, Widow of the late Prompter, and Moody

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

8818
04 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Widow Cross and Wood (sub-treasurer). Mainpiece: For last time this season. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

8819
07 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, sub-treasurer and Widow Cross. No building on Stage. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [See 5 Dec. 1755.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Vincent; IV: Hearts of Oak, as17620421

Song: III: Miss Young; End: Mrs Vincent

8820
30 September 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. King and Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

8821
05 October 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [T+The Occasional Prologue is Larpent MS 214 wherein Woodward crosses the stage sneakingly, "Behold the Prodigal return'd quite tame..." and apologizes for his recent venture in Ireland.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

8822
07 October 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Jackson did Oroonoko for the first time (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

8823
14 October 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. King & Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: By CommandSga Fiorentini. [The name of the dance unspecified.

8824
21 October 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of their Majesties. King & Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

8825
12 November 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: KKing & Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: II: The Bavarian Shoemakers, as17621009