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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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.
Event Comment: MMr Woodward said--I have been getting you (to Bayes) a fine parcel of Monsters, & they have knock'd me down & taken 'em from me--(thinking of the late Dispute) a little hissing &c. but it went off--Great Applause all thro'. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Concluding: Devisse, Mad Auguste

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Prologue, Epilogue and Pastoral Dialogue. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Addison. A New Pastoral Dialogue for the benefit of ye Author of ye Dialogue, Cook ye Poet (Cross). [The Prologue was on comic poetry (spoken by Ryan); the Epilogue was on the Comic Characters of Women (spoken by Mrs Bland). See published version (London, 1753 "to which is prefixed an Ode to John Rich, Esq:"--British Museum 11795 K 31).

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Mainpiece Title: The Drummer Or The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Entertainment: NNew Prologue, Epilogue, likewise a New Pastoral Dialogue (never perform'd before)-Lowe, Mrs Lampe; The music by Mr Arne-

Dance: LLes Chasseurs Allemandes, as17521207

Event Comment: [Letter to Woodward from Samson Edwards, The Merry Cobler of Haymarket. Answer to Henry Woodward's reply on Hill's Letter, 6d. Ironical defense of Hill casting further opprobrium upon him.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: Le Matelot Basque, as17521005; A Dutch Dance, as17521125; L'Entree de Flore, as17521122

Event Comment: Tomorrow, Don Sebastian, to which will be added Harlequin Ranger, with a scene never perform'd before. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17521208

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: As17521208

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: As17521208

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Cross suggests Contrivances for the afterpiece, but the Public Advertiser advertised Damon and Phillida.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Related Works
Related Work: The History and Fall of Caius Marius Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17521216

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: [No Public Advertiser today.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: [Mainpiece, announced at foot of bills for Dec. 12, 13, 1752 had been deferred on account of Mossop's illness.] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Receipts:#170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: A Gentleman did Theodosius. First appearance. He played pretty (Cross). He is identified as William? Smith in Rich's Register

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius Or The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17521028; Il Pastore, as17521219

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. The Play of As You Like It designed for tomorrow, for the Benefit of a Distress'd Family, is oblig'd, on account of the Ball at the Haymarket, to be deferr'd till farther notice (playbill). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: dvertisement relative to admission behind scenes omitted for first time.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Benefit At the particular desire of several persons of quality for Mr Cibber. Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years [see 15 Feb. 1746]. N.B. The Boxes not being equal to the demand for places, Servants will be allow'd to keep places on the stage, which for the better accommodation of the Ladies, and to preserve the Decorum of the Play, will be enclosed in the manner of an amphitheatre. Ladies are desired to send servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets to be had at White's Chocolate House, St James's, and at the stage door (playbill). For Th: Cibber a prisoner in ye King's Bench--he did Wolf and ye Epilogue of Nobody. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Non juror

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; V: L'Entree de Flore, as17521122