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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Thomas Cross"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Thomas 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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9939 results for: Keyword - Thomas Cross
We found 5800 matches on Author, 3041 matches on Event Comments, 1814 matches on Performance Comments, 293 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

8701
16 May 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Foley (Lobby Door Keeper), Saunders (Stage-Door Keeper), and Bride. Receipts: #100 (Cross); charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Music: II: A Piece on the Flute-the Child

8702
19 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse Or Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

8703
20 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #40 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

8704
21 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #70 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Song: IV: Master Mattocks

8705
22 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: IV: Master Mattocks

8706
23 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Last Thursday morning, Mr Harrington, Prompter to the Theatre Royal, being delerious and in a high fever, in the absence of his Nurse-keeper, threw himself out of his lodging window, and was killed by the fall. [See A Full and true Account of the woeful and wonderftl apparition of Hurloe Harrington, late prompter to the Theatre Royal in Dublin (London, 1750).] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: IV: Master Mattocks

8707
26 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

8708
30 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: IV: Master Mattocks

8709
03 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Mr Barry play'd Hamlet. Receipts: #170. (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

8710
20 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #40 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: III: Mattocks

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17491018

8711
21 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

8712
23 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Play of Hamlet is oblig'd to be deferr'd. [An extra notice appeared in the General Advertiser: This evening the Play of the Provok'd Wife will be perform'd at Drury Lane, the parts of Sir John and Lady Brute to be performed by Garrick and Mrs Pritchard."] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: Master Mattocks

Dance: CComic Dance-Matthews, M'Neil, Mrs Addison

8713
25 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #70 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance: As17491024

Song: As17491024

8714
26 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Song:

8715
27 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

8716
28 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night Or What You Will

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Matthews, Mrs Addison, the Little Swiss

8717
31 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #60 (Cross); #75 4s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Grand Scotch Dance-Matthews, Mlle Auretti; IV: Venetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

8718
02 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Mr Oram [Scene-painter] on acct. #10 10s. by order Lacy (Treasurer's Book). This month was published (Gentleman's Magazine, Register of Books) Some Considerations on the establishment of the French Strollers, the behaviour of their Bully Champions, and other seasonable matters at this critical juncture. Printed for R. Freeman. Receipts: #180 (Cross); #160 2s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

8719
06 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid to G. Garrick by order of managers #5 5s.; Paid to Glovers Bill 18s.; Paid a bill per order Mr Garrick #4 2d. (Treasurer's Book). [Further records this season indicate that "Glover's Bill" which occurrs regularly each Monday was a constant sum paid to a tavern or coffee house, rather than to a glover. The average payment was #1 15s. weekly, amounting to about #56 for the season. It will not be itemized further.] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #115 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

8720
07 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Paid Blandford (Tallow Chandler) #18 8s. 1d.; Paid Middlebrook for a B[lack] & W[hite] Feather 15s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #130 (Cross); #88 15s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: Matthews, Mrs Addison

Song: Master Mattocks

8721
15 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid to the Covt Garden Subscription #2 15s. 1d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #80 (Cross); #86 12s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Song: Master Mattocks

Ballet: SSavoyard Travellers. As17491110

8722
16 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Mr Calthorpe 30 nights #63 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #210 (Cross); #190 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

8723
17 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: N.B. The Play of Hamlet is deferr'd on account of Barry's Indisposition. Paid Mr Arne on Acct. #10 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #50 (Cross); #62 8s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Song: Master Mattocks

Ballet: SSavoyard Travellers. As17491110

8724
18 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Salary list #300 5s. [increased to #50 11d. per day. Pay raised 5d., and Mrs Lowe added at 15s.]; Paid for 1000 cards for tickets #1 10s.; Paid for 28 extra supers for Macbeth, Richard and Dancers #1 8s.; Paid Mrs Hobson a bill 19s. 9d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #200 (Cross); #169 9s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Song: Master Mattocks

Ballet: TThe Savoyard Travellers. As17491110

8725
20 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Whereas it has been industriously given out in order to prejudice Mr Barry, that he has frequently of late refused to act, when his health would have permitted; He takes this opportunity of assuring the publick, whose favour it is his highest ambition to deserve, that he scorns to make use of tricks or Evasions of this kind, and that nothing but real illness has, or shall ever oblige him to decline his duty as an actor (General Advertiser). Receipts: #130 (Cross); #144 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Ballet: TThe Savoyard Travellers. As17491110