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 5541 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: Benefit for Jefferson and Champnes. Mainpiece: By Desire. Tickets delivered for Love Makes a Man will be taken. Yesterday Five Guineas were paid into the Hands of Justice Fielding by Miss Macklin, for the use of the Marine Society, towards clothing men and boys for the sea, to go on board His Majesty's ships (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: I: Sing all ye Muses, compos'd by the late Mr H. Purcel,-Beard, Champnes

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Walker; IV: The last new Comic Dances-

Event Comment: Benefit for Scrase, Ackman, Sturt and Mrs Cooke. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Song: I: Miss Young

Dance: AA Comic Dance-

Event Comment: Benefit for Raftor, Clough, Roger and Bullbrick. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: [Toy-Shop ]The Author

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickenson, First-Gallery Office-Keeper. Receipts: #250 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

Event Comment: Benefit for Verney, House-keeper. Afterpiece: Acted but once these 3 years. Receipts: #260 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Song: IV: By desire, Ellen@a@Roon with variations on the Harp-Parry

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

Event Comment: Benefit for Foley, Mortimer, and Saunderson. Receipts. #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Mrs Vernon; V: A Hornpipe-Walker

Event Comment: Benefit for Veal, Tomlings, Humphrys. Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Walker

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer, Morris, W. Vaughan. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: IV: The Drunken Peasant-Morris; The Clown-W. Vaughan; V: A Hornpipe-Morris

Event Comment: Last time of performing these pieces this season. Receipts; #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Related Works
Related Work: Wonders in the Sun, or, The Kingdom of the Birds Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Dance: I: A Comic Dance-

Event Comment: We Play'd at Covent Garden the Beggars Opera & ye School Boy for Mr Morgan's Benefit, several of our Company play'd, with leave from ye Managers (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

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

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Event Comment: PPublic Advertiser: Mr Vanneschi begs leave to inform the Nobility and Gentry, that a Licence being granted to him from the Lord Chamberlain's office, with his Majesty's most gracious Approbation, for exhibiting Italian operas at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, Subscriptions for the ensuing Season will be taken in by Mess. Drummond and Co., Bankers at Charing Cross. He humbly desires his Protectors and Subscribers, to oblige him with an early Payment of their Subscription Money, in order that he may be able to give the necessary Securities to Sga Colomba Mattei, and to Sg Pasquale Potenza, as also to the Rest of his Singers and Dancers. It being given out that Mr Vanneschi hath not engaged the Use of the Opera House for the ensuing Season of Operas, it is hereby certified, that the Proprietor thereof hath agreed with Mr Vanneschi for the same. Sign'd by order of the Proprietor. Peter Crawford, Treasurer of said Theatre

Performances

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. [This note appears on all subsequent notices for the play this season, and will not be recorded further here.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Being the Death of the Duke of Buckinghamv; the Trial and Divorce of Queen Catherinev; the Death of Cardinal Wolseyv; The Christening of Princess Elizabethv; and many other Historical Passages. [This customary note accompanying each subsequent announcement this season will not be repeated further.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin's Chaplet Author(s): Thomas Shaw
Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

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

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As Written by Shakespear. [This notice, accompanying each subsequent announcement of this season, will not be repeated further.] Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: A Dance call'd The Italian Peasants-Signor Giorgi, Sga Lucchi, being the 1st time of their appearing upon that stage

Event Comment: As the performance greatly depends upon the Music and Machinery, No Gentlemen can possibly be admitted into the Orchestra or behind the Scenes. Venice Preserved is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Mossop's indisposition. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Event Comment: [The customary notice refusing admittance of Gentlemen to the Orchestre-see 7 Oct.-appears in connection with all subsequent performances and will not be noted further this season.] We are assured the report industriously spread of Mr Barry's having quitted the English Stage, and being engaged this winter in Dublin, is entirely groundless. Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Related Works
Related Work: Wonders in the Sun, or, The Kingdom of the Birds Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Author