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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Richard Cross"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "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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7019 results for: Keyword - Richard Cross
We found 3146 matches on Event Comments, 2138 matches on Author, 1857 matches on Performance Comments, 931 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6126
28 January 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Nicolina Giordani [By Command of] the Duke and Princess Amelia (Cross). The Manager of Covent Garden being under a necessity of interrupting the run of the new Tragedy of Philoclea by a Command, and a Benefit for Sga Nicolina Giordini (which was settled before the coming out of that play) has been so obliging as to give the Author the choice of a day for his second benefit; and many of his friends having taken places for Tuesday, as that would have been his sixth night in course, the Author, lest they should be disappointed, has chosen Tuesday for his second benefit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Amanti Gelosi

Dance: As17531217

6127
29 January 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #60 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

6128
29 January 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: For the the Author Tho' but the 5th Night, Mr Rich's Indulgence (Cross). Philoclea published at 1s. 6d. Tickets to be had at Dodsley's, Tulley's Head in Pall Mall; the Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden; the Grecian Coffee House, in Devereaux Court; and at Baker's Coffee House in Change Alley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philoclea

6129
02 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts:180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

6130
04 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 [Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: HHornpipe, as17540201

6131
06 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

6132
08 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

6133
11 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #170 [Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

6134
14 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

6135
16 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: IV: Comic Dance-Morris, Mrs Preston

6136
20 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

6137
23 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: Dance-Devisse, Mlle Auretti

6138
23 February 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A New Tragedy by Dr Philip? Francis, author of Eugenia, --went off very indifferently (Cross). [This tragedy is mercilessly attacked in The Tuner No 2 by Paul Hiffernan, who compares its phrasing in a dozen instances with similar, but more perfect phrasing in Shakespeare.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Constantine

6139
25 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Wrote by one Mr Crisp. A Gentlewoman, who never appear'd upon ye Stage before did Marcia (Mrs Graham) & had deservidly great applause, the whole play went off, with General Approbation. Mr Carey had his fiddle broke by an apple playing the first Music--the Prologue & Epilogue much lik'd--both wrote by Garrick (Cross). Gentlewoman-Mrs Graham, afterwards Mrs Yates (Winston MS 8). Tuner Letter the 2nd pub. at 6d.--29 pages

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

6140
26 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

6141
28 February 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author with this advertisement: The Receipt of the House not answering on Tuesday last, Mr Rich has taken it to himself & given this night for the author (No charges) (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Constantine

6142
02 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

6143
04 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This day publish'd at 6d. The Story on which the new tragedy call'd Virginia, now performing at Drury Lane, is founded. Sold by W. Reeve in Fleet St. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

6144
04 March 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Marina Giordani. Full Prices (Cross). A new Italian Comic Opera. The Music composed by Balthazar Galuppi. Ladies desired to send servants by Half an Hour after Three. This day publish'd at 1s. La Cameriera Accorta, Opera Comico, per Musica, as it is acted at Covent Garden. With an English Translation. Sold by H. Woodfall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cameriera Accorta

Afterpiece Title: Enterntainment

Dance: [Unspecified.]

6145
05 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

6146
07 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

6147
09 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

6148
12 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By desire. This day publish'd Virginia, a Tragedy as it is acted at Drury Lane. Printed for J. and R. Tonson. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Devisse, Mlle Auretti; End: Gipsey Tambourine, as17531012

6149
14 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: IV: Hornpipe-Granier

6150
16 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Last time of acting it this season. [Seven rows of Pit laid into Boxes, and amphitheatre on stage. Send servants at 3 o'clock.] Receipts: #240 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Devisse, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste