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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Cross and Wife"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Cross and Wife")') 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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6613 results for: Keyword - Cross and Wife
We found 3047 matches on Event Comments, 2525 matches on Performance Title, 1626 matches on Performance Comments, 110 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4151
28 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As written by Shakespeare. Mossop did Macbeth-diff-much hissing when given out again (Cross). [+Taste published at 1s., by Foote, with Prologue by Garrick.] Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

4152
31 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [Dancing by Mad Auretti had been forecast in the bill for 29 Jan., but is mentioned on the bill of the day.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

4153
03 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Suppos'd Garrick's Benefit (Cross). This day publish'd at 1s. Every Man in his Humour, a Comedy written by Ben Johnson [sic] with alterations and additions, as it was perform'd at Drury Lane (General Advertiser). [Inspector No 298 comments on a blemish in the performance of Richard III, where the character of the Lord Mayor has Buffoonry in the handling." Taswell frequently acts it thus, but perhaps is not to blame, the decision as to the manner of the part probably having been made by the Manager (Daily Advertiser and Literary Gazette, 13 Feb.)] Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

4154
04 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Dance: II: Grand Provincial Dance-Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

4155
06 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [See 12 Nov. 1745.] Very Dull Play & No Garrick (Cross). We hear the Comedy of the Comical Lovers will be reviv'd for the benefit of Mrs Clive on Monday, 9 March; to which will be added, Miss in her Teens, the part of Fribble by Garrick, being the only time of his performing it this season. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Performance Comment: Pembroke-Mossop (1st time); Lord Guilford-Dexter 1st time; Gardiner-Havard; Northumberland-Burton; Suffolk-Winstone; Sussex-Mozeen; Sir John Gates-Simson; Lieut.-Scrase; Captain-Ackman; Duchess of Suffolk-Mrs Mills; Lady Jane Gray-Miss Bellamy (1st time).
Cast
Role: Northumberland Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: GGrand Provincial Dance, as17520204

4156
17 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This Tragedy is taken from ye French by ye Revd Mr Francis. A great Noise before ye play began, occasion'd by ye Music not playing what they lik'd, they being Palted wou'd not come into the Orchestra-a Branch knock'd down, Candles thrown &c.-Mr Garrick went on, order'd ye Music in, & all was quiet-went off with great Applause (Cross). Never acted before. Characters New Dress'd Mr Garrick is intitled to my sincerest Gratitude for his Performance as an Actor, and for his Punctuality as a Manager...his strong good Sence, with that Spirit of Theatrical Criticism, which is his peculiar natural Genius (Prefatory matter by Francis first in ed.). Receipts: 180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eugenia

4157
18 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Went off very dull, & great hissing &c. when over (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eugenia

4158
22 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Author (Cross). Tickets to be had of the Author at his lodgings the Angel in King's Street, Covent Garden; A Millar, over-against Catharine Street, in the Strand; and at the Stage Door of the theatre, where places may be taken (playbill). We hear Mr Ross is to perform the part of Romeo in the Play Romeo and Juliet for his benefit, which is to be on Thursday, the 31st of March (General Advertiser). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eugenia

4159
24 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Very dull (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eugenia

Dance: II: By Desire will be perform'd the Grand Provincial Dance, as17520204

4160
25 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Author (Cross). Afterpiece: By Desire. [Tickets see 22 Feb.] Receipts: #87 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eugenia

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: II: Grand Provincial Dance, as17520204

4161
02 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #50 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Mrs Anne Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Song: III: Mattocks

4162
31 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. Mr Ross did Romeo & spoke an Elogium upon Shakespear in ye form of ye Monument in the Abby (Cross). Last time of performing the mainpiece this season. Nothing under full prices. After the play an Elogium wrote by Dryden, concluding with Milton's Epitaph to the Memory of Shakespeare, spoken by Ross representing the Shade of Shakespeare as figured on his monument in Westminster Abbey. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

4163
06 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Lee. Afterpiece: Never acted there, altered from Fielding. Full prices. No building on Stage.Tickets at Mr Reynolds Crane Co., Little Russell St. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England

Performance Comment: Don Quixote-Lee; Squire Badger-Shuter; Sancho-Costollo; Jezebel-Miss Minors; Guzzle-Taswell; Fairlove-Ackman; Loveland-Simpson; Dorothea-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Loveland Actor: Simpson

4164
07 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By command. P. of Wales & Broth &c. (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

4165
16 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Leviez. No Building on stage. Tickets at his, the lowest House on the Right-Hand in Beaufort Buildings in the Strand; and at Stage Door of Theatre. Receipts: #125 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers

Cast
Role: Philotas Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: with songs proper to the part and an Italian Mi Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: A Peasant Dance-Master Piettro; III: A Comic Dance-Sg Piettro, Janeton Auretti; IV: a Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; V: L'Entree de Flore, as17511015; a Peasant Dance, as17511015

4166
17 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Pritchard, Treasurer. Tickets his house next the Chapel in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields. This day publish'd at 1s.A Poetical Epistle from Shakespear in Elysium, to Mr Garrick at Drury Lane Theatre. Printed for J. Newberry (General Advertiser). Old Jack Ray, dy'd (Cross). Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

Song: I: Master Vernon

4167
18 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Mrs Norris was to had her Benefit (ye Inconst) this Night but gave it up-her Tickets came in Notwithstanding (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

4168
20 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Horton, an old Actress, & ye Sub: Treasurer (Cross). Positively the last time of Mr Garrick's performing the character of Fribble this season. Tickets deliver'd out for the Fatal Marriage will be taken. Tickets to be had of Mrs Horton at Mr Havard's in Broad Court, Bow-Street, Covent Garden; and of the Sub-treasurer at Mrs Quaker's in Broad St., Soho, and at the Stage Door (playbill). On Monday next The Recruiting Officer with several entertainments for the Benefit of Mr George Burton, Mr Harvey and Mrs Addison. Receipts: #175 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex; Or, The Unhappy Favorite

Performance Comment: Essex-Ross; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Horton, her first appearance on the stage in 2 years; Rutland-Miss Bellamy; Southampton-Berry; Burleigh-Havard; Raleigh-Blakes; Nottingham-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Rutland Actor: Miss Bellamy

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: Master Vernon

4169
28 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow and Family in Distress. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Receipts: #250 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Berry
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

Song: II: Mattocks

4170
29 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for one Jones and a Dang Master (Cross). No building on stage. Tickets deliver'd out for the Confederacy will be taken. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Sandys Actor: Shuter

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Janeton Auretti

Song: Beard

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): John Cartwright CrossJames Sanderson

Music: CConcerto on Violin cello-Mr Jones

4171
01 May 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Roger, W. Vaughan, Shawford, and Sturt. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

Cast
Role: Loveland Actor: Simpson

Dance: II: The Pierrots-Roger, Shawford Jun; III: A Scotch Dance, as17520427 IV: A Hornpipe-Shawford Jun; V: A Comic Dance-Shawford Jun, Miss Shawford

4172
04 May 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunbar, Gray, Dawson, Smith. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Page Actor: Master Cross
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; V: A Comic Dance-Shawford Jun, Miss Shawford

Song: IV: Master Vernon

4173
12 October 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Berry
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: The Matelot Basque, as17521005

Song: II: As17520916

4174
17 October 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDevisse, Auretti, Ferrere Danc'd (Cross). Receipts: #60 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: Several New Entertainments, particularly: Les Bucherons-M Devisse, M Ferrere; Le Matelot Basque, as17521005; Les Tonneliers de Strasburgh-Devisse, Mad Auretti, Piettro, Miss Rayner

4175
30 October 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Donalbain Actor: Master Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid