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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.

1776
29 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Bencraft and Dupre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Woodward. and Concluding with a Grand Ballet .

Dance: LLouvre, Minuet-Dupre, a scholar of his

1777
24 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: RRylands: Benefit for Doorkeepers Stevens, Bishop, Walker, Saunders, Pritchard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Cast
Role: Constant Actor: Cross

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Running Footman-Master Morris; II: Dutch Dance-Phillips; III: Le Boufon, as17420325 IV: a Hornpipe-Phillips

1778
27 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: As17421026

1779
03 November 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Dance: As17421026

1780
01 December 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Desire of several persons of Quality. This month was published A Clear Stage and no Favour, or Tragedy and Comedy at War, occasioned by the Emulation of the Two Theatric Heroes David and Goliath, A 12 p. poem setting forth the appeals of Garrick and Quin. [Prophesies that in two years' time Quin will continue to be esteemed more than Garrick, the new favorite.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Cast
Role: Lord Bawble Actor: Cross
Role: Mrs Haycock Actor: Mrs Cross

Dance: II: Grand Comic Dance, as17421130; V: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie-Checo, Signora Chiaretti

1781
03 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17421120

1782
08 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; La Villageoise, as17421006; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Grand Ballet, as17421108

1783
27 January 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

1784
22 February 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

1785
22 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing, as17421025; Tambourine-Cooke; Les Boufons du Cour, as17430305

1786
15 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Tickets and places to be had of Page at the stage door, or at Leveridge's Lodgings, the third door on the right hand in Hanover St., turning out of Long Acre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Dance: I: Peasants, as17421230; III: Grand Ballet, as17421108; V: Les Boufons du Cour, as17430305

Song: II: The Contented Man-Leveridge; IV: The Miser's Passport-Leveridge; V: An Epilogue in Music, address'd to the Town,-Leveridge: What I have said before I still recite, All shall be over about Nine at Night

1787
28 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: As17430407 but Pinchwife-Bridges from Dublin.
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Bridges from Dublin.
Role: Mrs Pinchwife Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Dorilant Actor: Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Song: As17430120

Dance: II: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310 IV: Italian Gardeners, as17421231

1788
12 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mayle and Edwards. Tickets deliver'd by Taswell and others will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: II: Lowe

Dance: III: Serious Ballet, as17430425 IV: La Florana, as17430408

1789
05 October 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay; or, the Wives Metamorphosed

Dance: As17431003

1790
07 October 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17431003

1791
18 November 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Cast
Role: Steward Actor: Anderson

1792
25 November 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17431124

1793
13 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Dance: SSerious Ballet, as17431003; Les Paisans Moisonneurs, as17431026

1794
19 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor; With Humours Of Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

1795
22 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

1796
13 January 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

1797
20 January 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Country Lads and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Destrade, Delagarde, Miss Jackson, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Norman

1798
23 January 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

1799
18 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

1800
16 March 1744 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit Smith and a Tradesman under Misfortunes. 6 p.m. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Tickets at Ed. Pinchbeck's in Fleet St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Fond Husband: or, The Intriguing Wife

Song: Blogg, Mrs Freeman