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4023 results for: Keyword - Y. Cross
We found 2720 matches on Event Comments, 1258 matches on Performance Comments, 238 matches on Performance Title, 130 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2526
14 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee and Matthews. Tickets and places to be had of Lee at Mr Oliphant's Exeter St., and of Matthews, at the Golden Ball in Duke's, late Earl's Court, Drury Lane. Receipts: #150 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash, #77 2s.; tickets, #82 7s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; II: New Dance-Matthews, Mrs Addison; III: Dutch Dance, as17471128; IV: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Hornpipe (By Desire)-Matthews

2527
15 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Leviez and Sullivan. Stage form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Receipts: #213 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash, #63 0s. 6d.; tickets, #150 14s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: II: Powerful Guardians from Alexander Balus-Sullivan; III: With Ravish'd Ears-Sullivan; V: a Favourite song in the Opera Artamene-Sullivan

Dance: I: Savoyards, as17471215; IV: Louvre, Minuet-Leviez, Anne Auretti; V: Shepherd's Dance-Cooke, Janeton Auretti

2528
16 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #118 11s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: II: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; III: Comic Dance, as17480314 V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

2529
18 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Luke? Sparks. Tickets and places to be had of Hobson at the stage door, and of Sparks at Courteen's Coffee-House in Bow St., Covent Garden. Dramatic Censor, I, 34-35: The whole part of the King, except his soliloquy, is truly wretched for an actor: and, to say truth, I never saw one who did not make a very insipid figure in it, the late Mr Sparks excepted; he was great in the formentioned soliloquy, respectable in every passage of the least regard, and so peculiarly happy in falling, when stabled, from the throne, that we may truly say, a good end apologized for a very bad character. Receipts: #150 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash, #80 7s. 6d.; tickets, #91 5s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: III: Sullivan

Dance: V: Comic Dance, as17480314

2530
18 April 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [For the Relief of the Sufferers by a late Calamity...at his Auction-Room late the Little Theatre in the Hay-Market Mr Foote will exhibit for the satisfaction the curious a choice Collection of Pictures, all warranted Originals, and entirely new. To begin at twelve noon. [Cross, Fielding, II, 89, states that Foote mimicked Fielding as "Trottplaid" on this date.] Daily Advertiser, 28 April: It being represented unto this Court, that several Common Players of Interludes, Gamesters...have for several Years used and accustomed to assemble and meet together at several Fairs or pretended Fairs, held in this County of Middlesex, not warranted by Law, to wit, Tottenham Court Fair, Hampstead Fair, in Holborn Division, the Shepherd's Bush Fair in Kensington Division, Mile-End Fair and Bow-Fair, commonly called Green-Goose Fair, in the Tower Division, and May Fair in Westminster Division

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Collection Auction Of Pictures

2531
19 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Benefit for Berry and Mrs Green. Stage form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Tickets of Hobson at stage door; or Berry at his lodgings in Little Bridges St., Covent Garden; and Mrs Green at her Lodgings at the Green Canister in Great Shier Lane, Carey St., Lincolns Inn. [This day one B. B. (presumably Macklin) inserted a letter to the author of the General Advertiser in that paper framing the historical background for the Lover's Melancholy, to be performed as benefit for his wife on 22 April. It gave a short account of the author (John Ford), his works in general, and of that dramatic piece in particular, and sought to align Ford as an intimate and profess'd admirer of Shakespeare. See comment for 23 April]. Receipts: #207 (Cross); house charges, #63 N.B.: Mr Berry paid, but at the rate o 60 pounds for his benefit, therefore I must make a draw back of #1 10s. for his half (Powel); cash, #88 9s. tickets, #118 12s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: [The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: [II: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Gondoliers-Cooke

2532
20 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Arne. Mainpiece: By Desire. Afterpiece: A Grand Musical Masque, written by Congreve, set to music by Arne. By Particular Desire. Tickets to be had of Arne at Mr West's, a Frame Maker in Duke St., near Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #140 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash, #80 4s. 6d.; tickets, #75 10s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Dance: Cooke, Janeton Auretti

2533
22 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Play By Particular Desire. Last time of acting the Mainpiece this season. The Play of the Lover's Melancholy, and the Farce of the Club of Fortune Hunters, which were to have been acted this evening, for the Benefit of Mrs Macklin, are deferr'd till Thursday the 28th, on account of the Indisposition of Mr Barry; when tickets deliver'd out for the 22nd instant will be taken. Tomorrow, King Lear for the benefit of the suffers by the late fire. Receipts: #28 (Cross); #24 16s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: A Will and No Will

Dance: II: The Savoyards, as17471215; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

2534
25 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Mills and Mrs Mills. Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. By Desire 3 rows of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Servants will be allow'd to keep places on the stage. Mr and Mrs Mills take but one benefit this year that they may not be troublesome to their friends. Receipts: #210 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #49 8s.; tickets, #153 10s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17471215; IV: Pastoral Dance-Cooke, Janneton Auretti[, as17480320

2535
26 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Last time of acting it this season. Receipts: #90 (Cross); #86 4s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: II: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; III: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

2536
03 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. N.B.: [This bill] was put up, but Mr Garrick was seiz'd with an ague, & there was no play, nor the Doors open'd (Cross). The Managers of Drury Lane Playhouse paid the sum of #208 1s. [Being the whole money taken at the play of King Lear, for the benefit of the Sufferers by the late Fire] into the hands of Mt Knight and Mt Jackson; and not as mentioned by Mistake in yesterday's paper; and the whole company gave their night's pay for the said benefit. The last new Reviv'd Play, call'd The Lover's Melancholy, will be acted by particular desire next Thursday, at Drury Lane, to which will be added, Miss in her Teens, being the last time of performing it this season (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: II: Pastoral Dance, as17480326 III: Les Characteres de La Dance-Ann Auretti; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

2537
05 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Acted but once this 100 years. Receipts: #38 (Cross); #34 2s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lover's Melancholy

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17471215; IV: Pastoral Dance, as17480326 V: Les Characteres de la Dance-Ann Auretti

2538
06 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Simpson, Shawford, Rogers and Miss Minors. Receipts: #200 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash, #31 10s.; tickets #151 10s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: III: Peasant Dance-Mas. Shawford, Miss Shawford; V: Comic Dance-Matthews, Mrs Addison

2539
11 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Last time of acting it this season. Tickets deliver'd out for Saturday the 7th will be taken this night. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #139 7s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: II: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; III: Comic Dance, as17480506; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

2540
16 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunbar (Box Keeper), Warner and Foley (Box Lobby Keepers), Pritchard (Upper Gallery Office Keeper), Saunders (Stage Doorkeeper). Receipts: #180 (Cross); charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: Peasant Dance, as17480506; III: Hornpipe-Shawford; V: Comic Dance, as17480506

2541
17 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality, and for the last time this season. Receipts: #100 (Cross); #83 12s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: [The Lying Valet

Dance: [III: Savoyards, as17471215; IV: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

2542
18 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Hobson. Receipts: #200 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17480506; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326

2543
10 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for Boxes to be taken of Mr Hobson at the stage door of the Theatre. To begin exactly at six o'clock (General Advertiser). [This customary notice for all subsequent bills will not be mentioned further this season.] Receipts: #80 (Cross); #88 7s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

2544
17 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [See Occasional Prologue spoken at cg by Mr Barry (28 Sept. 1750): @When vice and folly overruns the state,@Weak politicians lay the blame on fate...@If Shakespeare's Passion, or if Johnson's art@Can fire your fancy, or can warm your heart,@That task be ours;--but if you damn, their scenes@And heroes must give way to Harlequins.@We too can have recourse to Mime and Dance@Nay there I think we have the better chance;@And should the town grow weary of the Mute@Why--we'll produce--a Child upon the flute@ This infant piper referred to again satirically in a Guide to the Stage, 2nd ed., 1751, p. 7.] Rec'd of Mr Warner for arrears at his Benefit 16 May last, #5 14s. As this belong'd to last season's Account, I shall make an allowance, and accordingly subtract it from the sum total (Powel). Receipts: #70 (Cross); #92 12s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Imposter

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Music: I: Concerto on Flute-a Child five years of age (1st time of his appearing on any stage); III: Another piece of music-the Child

2545
24 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross); #150 1s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

2546
27 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By desire. Powel: Rec'd of Mr Wolfall [Woodfall?] for a ticket for the season to admit one into any part of the house, behind the scenes and to Benefit nights excepted--#15 15s. N.B.: These tickets us'd to be no more than ten guineas each before Mr Garrick's time, as for example Mr Ibbeston upon Ludgate hill, and Mr Tinker gave no more for theirs. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #166 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

2547
29 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #190 (Cross); #183 15s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

2548
04 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross); #139 10s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

2549
11 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By desire. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #147 17s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: V: Savoyards, as17480920

2550
13 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #115 8s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid