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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Widow Cross"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Widow 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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4925 results for: Keyword - Widow Cross
We found 2974 matches on Event Comments, 1625 matches on Performance Comments, 665 matches on Performance Title, 110 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2601
18 December 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Page Actor: Master Cross

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti

2602
19 December 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd out by a Daughter of Mr Farquhar's in great distress, will be taken this night. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17501117

2603
21 December 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Griffith had #25 of Tickets (Cross). Tickets deliver'd out for this play will be taken. Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #60 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: III: Country Amusements-; V: Pigmalion, as17501102

2604
22 December 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: RRobin Hood was stop'd in ye Run by Mr Beard's Sickness (Cross). No admittance behind scene. Being the last time of performing till the Holidays. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti

2605
04 January 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17501231

2606
09 January 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Face Actor: Cross
Role: Doll Common Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

2607
19 January 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Mrs Anne Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti

2608
25 January 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A New Comedy call'd Gil Blas is now in rehearsal at Drury Lane, and will speedily be performed there. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Face Actor: Cross
Role: Doll Common Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti

2609
28 January 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Norris did Polly (well) (Cross). Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

2610
31 January 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Page Actor: Master Cross

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

2611
06 February 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gil Blas

Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Cross

2612
11 February 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gil Blas

Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Cross

2613
13 February 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Page Actor: Master Cross

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: By desire Pigmalion, as17501102

2614
15 February 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Mrs Anne Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

2615
16 February 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire (General Advertiser). Suppos'd Mr Garrick's benefit (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

2616
23 February 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Cast taken from 1st edn. The bill merely lists actors and notes "With proper Music, Scenes, and Decorations. Never acted before." It mentions no Prologue or Epilogue.] This Masque was wrote about eleven years ago, by Mr Malet & Mr Thomson, & play'd in the Garden at Clifden before the P. of Wales &c.--Mr Malet has now alter'd it, & it was play'd with great Applause, only some of the Dances, being too long were dislik'd, & some of the Songs had ye same reception (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred, A Masque

2617
25 February 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A little Noise at ye Singing & Dancing (Cross). Nn Saturday night was played for the first time a new Masque called Alfred, at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, before a very numerous and splendid audience. The Piece itself, as it justly deserved met with great and universal applause: However, the spectators rightly found fault with some improprieties in the performance of the inferior dancers and actors, which we hear will be all corrected in this night's representation (General Advertiser). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred

2618
05 March 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At ye end ye play Mr Garrick said--Gentlemen the House being engag'd to some Gentlemen & Ladies for a private Play on Thursday next, for ye Entertainment of some of ye Royal family, & principal people of Distinction, the Masque of Alfred will be defer'd till Saturday (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred

2619
09 April 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: 'TTis said the badness of this House was owing to some Letters in the papers against us for opening (Cross). Receipts: #40 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti, Mathews, Mad Camargo, the Little Swiss

2620
16 April 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Devisse. Tickets to be had of Devisse at the Distiller's, the corner of the little Piazza, Covent Garden, and at the Stage Door. Tickets deliver'd for the 28th of March will be taken. Being positively the last time of performing the mainpiece this season. Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Constant Actor: Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: New Dance-; III: Provencal Dance-; IV: Hornpipe-Mathews; V: Louvre, Minuet, as17510411

Music: II: Concerto on German Flute-Mr L'Cler

2621
18 April 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Green-This House was hurt by Mr Handel's Music at ye Foundling Hospt (Cross). Tickets of Mrs Green at Broad Court, Bow St., Covent Garden and at Stage Door. Tickets deliver'd for the 10th will be taken. Last time of acting the mainpiece this season. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti

2622
24 April 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Leviez (Ballet Master). Tickets of Leviez, the corner of Marlet Court, Bow St., Covent Garden, and of Hobson at the Stage Door. Tickets for 17 April will be taken. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: The Last two Entertainments of Dancing-Devisse, Mad Auretti

2623
26 April 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Wid. Mills & Mr Matthews (Cross). Tickets and places to be had of Mathews in Fountain Court, Aldermanbury; of Mrs Mills, at Mr Gardiner's a Printer in Little Russel St., Covent Garden and at the Stage Door. Tickets deliver'd for the Way of the World, and for the 18th will be taken, and those for the Fair Penitent the 25th. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: I: Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; II: The Savoyard-Mathews, Mad Camargo; III: Running Footman's Dance, as17501020; IV: A Harlequin Dance-the Little Swiss; V: The Scotch Dance-Mathews, Mad Auretti

2624
27 April 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Benefit for] Taswell, Layfield, Marr, Mad Mariet, Mrs Addison had Tickets (Cross). Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

2625
06 May 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickenson, Harrison and Chamness. Tickets sold by the orange women will not be taken. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Careless Actor: Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Harrison, Walker; V: Running Footman's Dance, as17501020, but _Mathews, Harrison

Song: IV: Song-Master Mattocks