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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "J C Cross"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "J C Cross")') 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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6854 results for: Keyword - J. C. Cross
We found 4273 matches on Event Comments, 2807 matches on Performance Comments, 439 matches on Performance Title, 134 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

726
11 November 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysteries Of The Castle

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

727
05 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Device; or, The Marriage-Office

Dance: End: The Humours of New@Market with the Pony Races, as17770428

Song: End I: A Welcome to the Spring (composed by Dr Arne)-Mrs Farrell

728
17 August 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Test of Love

Dance: In II: a Masquerade Dance-Byrn, the two Simonets, young D'Egville, Miss DeCamp

729
05 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Gnome; or, Harlequin Underground

Dance: End 1st piece: January and May-[see17880627

730
16 April 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Village Coquette

731
26 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Wood

Dance: As17920725

732
28 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanted Wood

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Dance: As17920725

733
01 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanted Wood

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: As17920725

734
04 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanted Wood

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: As17920725

735
07 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In Good Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Wood

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: As17920725

736
11 June 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John

Afterpiece Title: The Amours of Billingsgate

737
20 December 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Performance Comment: Cross-Wilson; Kitchen-Dunstall; Col. Freeman-Robson; Marcourt-Lee Lewes; Charlotte-Mrs Bulkley; Lettice-Miss Dayes; Sally (1st time)-Miss Morris; Mrs Cross-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Cross Actor: Wilson
Role: Mrs Cross Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: As17771104

738
01 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Chevalier

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Performance Comment: Cross-Parsons; Kitchen-Massey; Colonel Frankly-Lamash; Buck-Davis; Snarl-Egan; Luke-R. Palmer; Passengers-Gardner, Kenny; Marcourt-Palmer; Charlotte-Mrs Jewell; Lettice-Mrs Hitchcock; Landlady-Mrs Love; Sally-Miss Hitchcock; Women Passengers-Miss Platt, Mrs Poussin; Mrs Cross-Mrs Webb (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh [1st appearance in London]).1st appearance in London]).
Cast
Role: Cross Actor: Parsons
Role: Mrs Cross Actor: Mrs Webb

Dance: End II: The Merry Lasses, as17780529; End II afterpiece: Provencalle Dance, as17780518

739
02 June 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber; Or, The Fruitless Precaution

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Performance Comment: Cross-Parsons; Kitchen-Webb; Colonel Frankly-Lamash; Luke-R. Palmer; Marcourt-Palmer; Charlotte-Mrs Jewell; Lettice-Mrs Hitchcock; Landlady-Mrs Love; Sally-Miss Hitchcock; Mrs Cross-Mrs Webb.
Cast
Role: Cross Actor: Parsons
Role: Mrs Cross Actor: Mrs Webb.

Dance: End: Tambourine Dance-Master and Miss Byrn; End II afterpiece: As17790531

740
26 February 1784 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: End of Act I Le Reveil du Bonheur, as17840203; End of Opera an entirely new ballet in the Rural Stile, composed by D'Auberval, founded on the much admired Burletta of the celebrated Favart, Le Coca du Pillage; ou, La Lotterie Ingenieuse, in which a Pastoral Minuet, never exhibited but at the Opera in Paris, by Vestris fJun.J and Mme Theodore, the other parts by Blake, Slingsby, Mme Rossi, Miss De Camp, Mme Simonet. The Music selected from Sacchini, Piccinni, and other eminent Performers

741
10 December 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Adopted Child

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Danby, Fisher, Maddocks, Trueman, Welsh, Master DeCamp, Master Gregson, Annereau, Atkins, Aylmer, Boyce, Bardoleau, Brown, Cook, Denman, Dixon, Dibble, Caulfield Jun., [J.] Fisher, Gallot, Tett, Walker, Willoughby, Miss Leak, Miss DeCamp, Miss Arne, Mrs Boimaison, Mrs Bramwell, Miss Chatterley, Miss Granger, Miss Jackson, Mrs Maddocks, Miss Menage, Miss Mellon, Mrs Butler, Miss Stuart

742
20 February 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Cross: Benefit for ye Author. Receipts: #170 (Cross); house charges #63 (Powel); cash #139 3s. 6d.; tickets #29 5s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

743
08 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Cross: Mr Garrick taken ill, wch prevented ye Foundling being done as design'd. Receipts: #50 (Cross); #62 4s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

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

744
16 March 1737 @ Devil Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Solo on the Violin-M. C. Festing; a Solo on the German Flute-Weideman

745
24 February 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ash Wednesday

Performance Comment: (Cross) .

746
15 April 1743 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Turnbridge Walks; Or, The Yeoman Of Kent

Song:

Dance: *c1703 04 15 js *c1703 04 15 js t Mrs Careless. Those Ladies and Gentleman who have taken Places, are desir'd to send their Servants early; and (for fear of a Mistake) to take Notice, that the Playhouse adjoins the Tennis-Court. Tickets for The Beggar's Opera taken

747
26 December 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Song: As17761125, but Gaudry, Mrs J _Smith, Mrs +Smith

748
19 July 1800 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alceste

Dance: End Opera: Hyppomene et Atalante, as18000304but Mlle J. _Hilligsberg, Mlle Guiardele, _D'Egville. [No other ballet listed.

749
06 January 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Song: Mainpiece to finish with a Grand Naval Review, with a Dance of Sailors by Williamson, Mills, Miss Stageldoir, &c, and Rule Britannia by Williames, Chapman, &c

750
15 March 1721 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: First Violin-Dubourg; Concert-Kytch; Solo-J. Festing

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