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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Cross jun"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Cross jun")') 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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5302 results for: Keyword - Cross jun
We found 2851 matches on Event Comments, 2708 matches on Performance Comments, 328 matches on Performance Title, 110 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4751
21 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: uthor of the Theatrical Review, 1757-58, pp. 47-48 comments on the afterpiece: "Nothing but my promise to give some observations on all new dramatic productions could have prevailed on me to wade through this farce...I hear the author himself is come over to the public opinion and acknowledges it to be a very indifferent performance."] Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Dance: I: The Indian Peasants, as17570127

4752
24 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

4753
26 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: TThe Millers, as17570129

4754
05 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Author

4755
07 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Ben Jonson. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

4756
08 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

4757
10 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Author

4758
14 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

4759
15 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Last time of performing the afterpiece till the Benefits. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The Author

4760
17 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

4761
19 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular Desire. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

4762
21 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes, where servants will be allowed to keep places, and on the stage, which will be formed into an Amphitheatre. Receipts: #253 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: IV: A New Comic Dance-. [Dancers unspecified.

4763
22 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Pritchard at her house in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields; and at Pritchard's Warehouse in Tavistock St. Receipts: "230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: A Grand Masquerade Dance-; in which Minuet-Miss Pritchard (by Desire)

4764
25 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: An Oratorio composed by Sg Gio. Adol. Hasse, With Additions by Sg Giardini. End of the first Act a Concerto on the Organ by Mr Burton, In Act the third a Hautboy Concerto by the two Signori Besozzi, lately come from abroad. Pit and boxes 10s. 6d. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr Varney, at the stage-door of the Theatre. The profits of this performance will be given to A Public Charity. [No receipts recorded by Cross.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Pellegrini

4765
26 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mossop. Tickets at his lodgings in Newton's Warehouse, in Tavistock St., Covent Garden; and of Varney. [The Dramatic Register No 17 commented favorably upon Mossop's performance noting especially his fine modulation of voice. It also castigated a recent scurrilous attack upon Mossop. See Theatrical Clippings.] Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

4766
28 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Tickets at her house in Henrietta St., and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. Receipts: #260 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: By particular Desire, Ellen@a@roon-Mrs Clive

4767
29 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular desire. This day publish'd The Theatrical Examiner, an inquiry into the merits and demerits of the principal English performers in general...with a consideration of Douglas. [Gives advice to young actors, and some remarks on productions, praises Douglas, gives a diatribe against Garrick: "All young actors start, jump, and Garrickize, which is the true reason there is none of them tolerable." (98 pp.)] Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

4768
31 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Beard. Part of Pit will be laid into boxes, &c. Receipts: #350 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: I: The Country Wedding-Beard; II: The Bonny Broom-Miss Young; III: By Desire, Music: Sir Watkins Delighton the Harp-Parry; IV: The Toast-Beard; V: A Duetto When Phoebus the top of the Hills does Adorn-Beard, Miss Young

4769
04 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TThe Knights, publish'd 4 April, at 1s. A Comedy in Two Acts as it is perform'd at Drury Lane. By Mr Foote (Public Advertiser). Passion Week (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

4770
13 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. Tickets of Ross at his house in Bow Street, Covent Garden. Receipts. #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Author

4771
15 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

4772
16 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

4773
18 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pritchard. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Tickets of Miss Pritchard in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields and at Pritchard's Warehouse in Tavistock St. Receipts: #340 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

4774
19 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Berry. Tickets of Berry at Mr Pope's Peruke Maker in Russel St., Covent Garden; of Mr Hyde, Engraver, in Cutter Lane, Cheapside; and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #147 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Song: I: Miss Young

4775
22 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TTaswel &c. had Tickets. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin