SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Ross"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Ross")') 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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We found 4272 matches on Event Comments, 1610 matches on Performance Comments, 552 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lalbergatrice

Event Comment: [The Public Advertiser for 15 Feb. noted the following concerning this night's performance: Whereas several complaints, by letter and otherwise, have been lately made to the Managers of Drury Lane Theatre, of the ill Behavior of some persons in the Upper Gallery, who throw down Apples, Potatoes, and other things into the Pit.: This is therefore to assure the Ladies and Gentlemen that the Managers will take all imaginable care to discover and prosecute any person or persons, who shall, disturb, or insult them for the future. If any person will discover who it was that flung a hard piece of cheese, of near half a Pound Weight, from one of the Galleries last Tuesday Night [11 Feb.] and greatly hurt a young Lady in the Pit, shall receive Ten Guineas from Mr Pritchard, the Treasurer of the Theatre."] Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Cast
Role: Barbarossa Actor: Mossop
Event Comment: Benefit for ye Composer (Cross). On Saturday will be reviv'd a play (not acted these five years) call'd Measure for Measure. Mr Boucher subtreasurer died 19 Feb. (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fairies

Dance: SShepherd's Holiday, as17541008

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. The greatest crowd I ever saw since the Delevals play'd. This (tis said) was Mr Garrick's Benefit (Cross). Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Mossop. Tickets at his lodgings at Newton's Warehouse in Tavistock St., opposite Charles St., Covent Garden, and at Stage Door. Receipts: #224 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: CCymon and Iphigenia-Beard

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Sabatini's (Cross). Mainpiece: At the particular desire of several persons of quality. Tickets to be had of Sg Sabatini at Mr Leviez's in Beaufort Building in the Strand and at the Stage Door. Tickets delivered out for 18th of March will be taken. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: I: The Italian Fishermen-Sg and Sga Sabatini; III: New Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini; V: A Peasant Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini, Sabatini the younger

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Beard. Afterpiece: By Desire. Tickets of Beard at Mrs Coleman's in East St., near Red Lyon Square, and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: II: A New Cantata-Beard; III: Hooly and Fairly by Desire-Beard; V: Rule Britannia-Beard, chorus; Britons Strike Home sung in Character-Beard, accompanied with a chorus

Music: IV: A Piece upon the Harp-Parry

Dance: ll concluding with% Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Havard (Cross). Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. Tickets of Havard at his house in Broad Court, Bow St., Covent Garden, and at the Bedford Coffee House and the Stage Door. [The Public Advertiser lists Old Knowell this night as Berry.] Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Young Knowell Actor: Ross

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: III: New Comic Dance-Three Sabatinis, as17550203

Song: B$Beard particularly at the End: Rule Britannia, as17550402 Britons Strike Home in character and accompanied with a Chorus, as17550402 Concluding with: a Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Yates. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: Beard

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): John Cartwright Cross
Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Palmer. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Marplot in Lisbon

Event Comment: Benefit for Davies, and Mrs Davies. Tickets at their lodgings at Mr Marshall's in Tavistock Row, Covent Garden, and at Stage Door. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Graham. Tickets of Mrs Graham, at Mr Robinson's in Beaufort Buildings in the Strand, and at the stage door. Last time of performing the mainpiece this season. Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Cast
Role: Pyrrhus Actor: Ross

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: I: By particular desire, Hooly and Fairly-Beard

Dance: II: As17550203

Event Comment: Benefit for myself and Wife (Cross). Tickets at the Stage Door. N.B. At the desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Cross has changed Virginia, which he had before advertised, to the above Play. Tickets delivered out for Virginia will be taken. Receipts: #147 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17550203

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mills. Tickets deliver'd out by Taswell, Wilder, Morris, and Mrs Addison will be taken. Tickets to be had of Mrs Mills at Mr Gardyner's, Printer, in Russel St., Covent Garden, and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: II: The Running Footmen-Morris, Walker; III: The Minuet, Louvre-Dennison, Mrs Addison; IV: Comic Dance by Three Sabatinis, as17550203

Song: V: Rule Britanniaby Beard, as17550402 concluding with a Hornpipe-Morris

Event Comment: Benefit for Scrase and Miss Thomas. Tickets of Scrase at Mr Cross's in Crown Court, Russel St., Covent Garden; of Miss Thomas at the Ring and Pearl, Duke's Court, Bow St., and at stage door. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: Miss Thomas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Lady Moore or the Dragoness

Dance: CComic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Gibbons, Watson, and Master Moore. Tickets deliver'd out by Mr Walker, Dancing Master, and Marr will be taken. Tickets for the Revenge will be taken. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Young Bevil Actor: Ross
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: II: Beard; IV: Mas. Moore

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Walker; V: The Running Footmen-Morris, Walker, as17550424

Event Comment: [Masque] words by Mallet and Music by Arne and a Prologue by Mr Garrick (Cross). Books of the Masque will be sold at the theatre. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb the Great

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: Tymms

Dance: PPierots Dance-Settree, Walker, Sga Fiorentina; Hornpipe-small jolly Tar (seven years old); La Dance de Village-Settree, Sga Fiorentina

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: PPierrots Dance-Settree, Walker, Sga Fiorentina; Hornpipe-a small jolly Tar, seven years old; La Dance de Village-Settree, Sga Fiorentina

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Injurd Merchant Or The Extravagant Son

Afterpiece Title: The Jew in Distress or Harlequin turnd Sharper

Song: Phillips, Mrs Vaux, Mrs St.John

Dance: Phillips, Mrs Vaux, Mrs St.John

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It