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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.

1901
26 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

1902
31 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. Charges #60. Deficiency to Cooke #25 10s., covered by #134 7s. from tickets. Tickets of Cooke at Mr Clark's, an Upholsterer in James St., Covent Garden, and at the Stage Door. Died Dennis Delane, Esq. universally regretted (Daily Advertiser, 3 April). Receipts: #34 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Razor Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: I: New Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; II: Dutch Dance, as17500319 but -Cooke, Miss Hillyard; III: Grand Scotch Ballet, as17500201; End of Play: Louvre, Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hillyard

1903
01 May 1750 @ New Wells, Shepherd's Market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Empire; Or, Virtue Triumphant

Afterpiece Title: School for a Wife

1904
16 October 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Cast
Role: Arcas Actor: Anderson

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17500926

1905
22 October 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: There is now in Rehearsal and will be speedily performed at Covent Garden a Comedy call'd The Refusal or the Lady's Philosophy written by Colley Cibber, Esq: Poet Laureate

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

1906
10 November 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Cast
Role: Arcas Actor: Anderson

Dance: As17500926

1907
13 December 1750 @ 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: Flora; Hob in the Well

Cast
Role: Dick Actor: Anderson

1908
25 January 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

1909
06 February 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Cast
Role: Sanchio Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Andromeda Actor: Miss Falkner
Role: Concluding with the Original Grand Dance Actor: .

1910
07 February 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Merlin's Cave

1911
18 April 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: (By Desire) Pigmalion, as17510412 III: Grand Scots Ballet, as17500926; End: Louvre and Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hillyard

1912
24 April 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy

Song: I: a Cantata call'd The Lover's Lesson-Miss Falkner; II: an Anacreontic-Leveridge; III: If Love's a Sweet Passion set by Baildon-Lowe; IV: The Truly Happy Man-Leveridge; End: Epilogue of Thanks-Leveridge

Dance: As17510117

1913
27 April 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Cast
Role: Sanchio Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Roberts

1914
13 November 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Miller's Wife Actor: Miss Hillyard

1915
16 December 1751 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

1916
06 January 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Andromeda Actor: Miss Falkner

Music: Concerto on the Cymbal-Noell

1917
15 February 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

1918
10 March 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

1919
22 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: During the short time of the Fair, at Bence's Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. Gallery 6d. To begin at Twelve and end at Ten at night. [N.B. at a Booth next to Yeates's ran Parsloe's Grand Medley, including The Town Miss; or, The Miser Outwitted,' by operational moving figures (puppets) followed by dancing, jiggs, disjointments, concluding with a piece of German Clockwork, for the diversion of the Curious.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Intriguing Chambermaid; Or, The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Triumphant

Dance: I: A new Grand Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Codgerino; End: A new Irish Dance-

1920
04 October 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: Brute-Bridgwater; Heartfree-Ryan; Constant-Ridout; Razor-Macklin; Rake-Usher; Justice-Marten; Taylor-Collins; Cornet-Miss Ferguson; Col. Bully (with song in Character)-Lowe; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Vincent; Belinda-Mrs Elmy; Mademoiselle-Mrs Macklin; Lady Brute-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, the Country Wake

Performance Comment: Friendly-Lowe; Testy-Arthur; Dick-Anderson; Betty-Miss Haughton; Hob-Dunstall; F; Parish Girl-Miss Hallam.
Cast
Role: Dick Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, the Country Wake

Performance Comment: Friendly-Lowe; Testy-Arthur; Dick-Anderson; Betty-Miss Haughton; Hob-Dunstall; Flora-Miss Young.
Cast
Role: Dick Actor: Anderson

1921
17 November 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Cooke, Grandchamps, Mlle Camargo.

Dance: As17521028

1922
16 December 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: First Fury Actor: Grandchamps.
Role: Miller's Wife Actor: Miss Hilliard

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet-Cooke, Miss Hillyard

1923
27 January 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

1924
10 May 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: As17521004, but Lady Brute-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Song: III: Alcides Name by Handel-Legg; V: Since the Race of Time Began by Handel-Legg

Dance: I: Two Pierrots, as17530501; II: New Peasant Dance-Gardiner; IV: Les Chasseurs Allemandes, as17521207

1925
18 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth, facing the Great Til'd Booth, Bowling Green, To begin at Twelve noon during the time of the Fair. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Upper seats 6d. [For security Phillips has erected no Gallery. Presumably the Patent Theatres were demanding more rigid enforcement of the Licensing Act as indicated in the notice from the Daily Advertiser 18 Sept.: Whereas the Fair called Lady Fair...in the Borough of Southwark...any person or persons..who person..(who ) shall act and exhibit any Droll or Shew (after 20 Sept.) shall be prosecuted and punished according to Law.'

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave; Or, A Wife For Ye All

Afterpiece Title: The Witch of Endor