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25558 results for: Keyword - Mr and Mrs Cross
We found 23731 matches on Performance Comments, 9520 matches on Event Comments, 4738 matches on Performance Title, 137 matches on Author, and 2 matches on Roles/Actors.

8901
25 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be

Performance Comment: Sir Courtly-Cibber; Belguard-Cashell; Farewell-Hale; Surly-Bridgwater; Crack-Chapman; Hothead-Woodward; Testimony-Hippisley; Aunt-Mrs James; Violante-Mrs Horton; Leonara-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Aunt Actor: Mrs James
Role: Violante Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Leonara Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Prudentia Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Flametta Actor: Mrs Hale

Song: TThe Flocks shall leave the Mountains a Trio from Acis and Galatea by Handel-Beard, Reinhold, Mrs Lampe

Dance: LLes Allemandes, as17451109

8902
06 February 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Woffington.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Mrs Crispin Actor: Mrs Bridges

Song: Lowe, Mrs Clive, Miss Edwards

Dance: I: Italian Peasants-the Mechels; III: Muilment; V: Grand Dance-Muilment, Desse, Miss Scott, Picq, Miss Hilliard

8903
22 March 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17460208, but Jessica-Miss Edwards (in which character will be introduced several new songs proper to the character); EpilogueFemale Volunteer as17460317-Mrs Woffington. EpilogueFemale Volunteer as17460317-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Clive, 1st appearance here in 3 years
Role: Nerissa Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: II: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne; IV: Song in Honour of the Duke of Cumberland-Lowe

Dance: III: Muilment

8904
12 May 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Performance Comment: As17460125, but Jenny-Mrs Ridout.
Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Ridout.
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Macklin
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Bridges
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Woffington.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs King.
Role: Mrs Crispin Actor: Mrs Bridges

Song: I: Lowe; IV: O Peace out of Alfred -Mrs Clive

Dance: III: Muilment; V: Swiss Dance, as17460416

8905
24 November 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Wignell
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Mrs Chat Actor: Mrs Dove
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs Hallam.

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Cast
Role: Dolly Actor: Mrs Dove.

Dance: Between the Acts: Miles, Mrs Miles, Master Morgan, Miss Baker

8906
05 January 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Goodfellow; Lenox-Cushing; Hecate-L. Hallam; Fleance-Master Morgan; Macduff-Furnival; Banquo-Paget; Duncan-Holmes; Witches-Hallam Sen, Shuter, Banks; Malcolm-Lee; Donalbain-Mrs Moreau; Seyward-Hart; Seyton-Wignell; Doctor-Miles; first Murderer-Dove; 2nd Murderer-Baker; Lady-Mrs Beckham; Lady Macduff-Mrs Bambridge; Lady Macbeth-Miss Budgell.
Cast
Role: Donalbain Actor: Mrs Moreau
Role: Lady Actor: Mrs Beckham
Role: Lady Macduff Actor: Mrs Bambridge

Song: Brett, Mrs Cushing, Miss Tench

Dance: As17461124

8907
04 April 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: Brett

Dance: As17461124, but Louvre and Minuet-the Gentleman, Mrs Miles

Entertainment: End Farce: Fireworks-

8908
21 April 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Cast
Role: Lady Wrangle Actor: Mrs Macklin
Role: Sophronia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Woffington

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: I: The Mechels; III: Sga Padouana; IV: A Minuet-Salomon, Mrs Woffington; V: Comic Dance, as17470410

Song: II: Sullivan; IV: Original Cantata-Lowe

8909
13 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Villeneuve, Delagarde and Rector. Receipts: #12 14s. 6d., plus #127 8s. from tickets, distribution unspecified. Charges #60

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Young Fashion Actor: Anderson
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: The English Boy and Girl; Also, by desire, a Minuet-Rector, Mrs Gondou

8910
14 September 1747 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite Or The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: Cunningham, Adams, Miss Lincoln, Mrs Bullock

Dance: Cunningham, Adams, Miss Lincoln, Mrs Bullock

8911
28 March 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Cibber. Tickets of Page at the Stage Door. [The entertainments and mixed afterpieces formed the most elaborate night's performance this season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: The Authors Farce

Performance Comment: Luckless (the Author)-Cibber; Witmore-Bridges; Bookweight-James; Player-Anderson; Jack Pudding-Dunstall; Mrs Moneywood-Mrs James; Harriet-Miss Haughton; Wherein will be introduc'd an Operatic Puppet Show, call'd The Pleasures of the Town: Punch-Dunstall; Joan-Collins; Charon-Stoppelaer; Poet-Paddick; Sailor-Barnard; Robgrave-Smith; Don Tragedio-Storer; Dr Orator-Cushing; Signior Opera-Mrs Dunstall; Mrs Novel-Miss Copin; Goddess of Nonsense-Miss Young; With the Restoration of the King of Bantum, and the Foundlings Found Out: Murdertext-Morgan; Constable-Hacket; Bantomite Governor-Anderson; Bantomime Courier-Barnard; Foundlings-Cibber, Dunstall, Collins, Miss Haughton; Concluding with the Last New Grand Country Dance, call'd The Mouse Trap, or Foot's Vagaries: Miss in her Teens-La Petite Parisienne; Sg Piede-Villeneuve; Maitre de Ballet-Bencraft; Councillor-Morris; Lady Autumn-Oates; Rout, Drum Hunters-Delagarde, Anderson, Paddick, Mrs Dunstall, Mrs Gondou, Mrs Daniel, Mrs Villeneuve.
Cast
Role: Player Actor: Anderson
Role: Mrs Moneywood Actor: Mrs James
Role: Signior Opera Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Mrs Novel Actor: Miss Copin
Role: Bantomite Governor Actor: Anderson
Role: Drum Hunters Actor: Delagarde, Anderson, Paddick, Mrs Dunstall, Mrs Gondou, Mrs Daniel, Mrs Villeneuve.

Song: I: Go lovely Rose-Beard; II: Tis Liberty-Mrs Storer; III: Sper il Fostore-Miss Faulkner; IV: Smiling Liberty-Miss Faulkner

Dance: V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

8912
31 March 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Leveridge. [See his advance notices on 18 and 24 March.] Wednesday Next Hamlet, Towards the Relief of the Unhappy sufferers by the late Fire. The Monies arising by that to be lodg'd with Messrs Ironside and Belchior to be paid by them into the Hands of the Committee (that is or shall be appointed) to be apply'd with the other charitable Collection towards the relief of the unhappy sufferers by the late dreadful calamity. [Miss Faulkner's song "Liberty" was probably the aria from Judas Maccabaeus: Come, ever smiling Liberty [Deutsch, Handel, p. 649).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Dunstall.

Song: I: Who'll Buy a Heart a Cantata by Stanley-Beard; II: Cupid's Power I Despise, Liberty-Miss Faulkner; III: a Song in the Anacreontic style- of Leveridge; IV: O Peace, Shepherd what art thou pursuing-Mrs Storer; V: Mirth Gives Courage-Leveridge; Epilogue of Thanks in Music-Leveridge

Dance: Master Granier, Miss Granier

8913
06 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Relief of Sufferers by the late Fire. [It happened in the Exchange on 25 March. See General Advertiser accounts.] Boxes and Pit laid together at 5s. each. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [Statement about gift of the night's box receipts (31 March) repeated. See note, 11 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs James
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Giffard.

Song: Beard, Miss Faulkner, Mrs Storer

8914
18 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bridges and Desse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone Or The Fox

Performance Comment: Volpone-Bridges; Mosca-Ryan; Corbaccio-Bridgwater; Voltore-Ridout; Corvino-Rosco; Sir Politic-James; Bonario-Gibson; 1st Avocatori-Marten; Peregrine-Anderson; Celia-Mrs Hale; Lady Wou'dbe-Mrs Horton; In I, Dance-Master Granier, Miss Granier; In III, a Punch Dance-Harrison.
Cast
Role: Peregrine Actor: Anderson
Role: Celia Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Lady Wou'dbe Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: Phebe or The Beggars Wedding

Performance Comment: Hunter-Beard; Phebe-Mrs Dunstall; Tippet-Mrs Bland; Justice Quorum-Marten; Chanter-Bridgwater.
Cast
Role: Phebe Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Tippet Actor: Mrs Bland

Song: II: Mrs Storer; IV: Miss Faulkner

Dance: HHornpipe-Harrison

8915
19 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Villeneuve and Roberts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Cast
Role: Daphne Actor: Miss Vandersluys
Role: Followers of Daphne Actor: Mrs Gondou, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Dumont, Mrs LaFont
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Scaramouche Actor: Vandersluys
Role: Huntsmen Actor: Beard, Desse, Delagarde, Froment, Vandersluys, Oates, Dupre
Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Storer
Role: French Woman Actor: Mrs Delagarde
Role: Spanish Woman Actor: Mrs Gondou
Role: Polonese Actor: Mrs Villeneuve
Role: representing an Inconstant Actor: Miss Vandersluys.

Song: III: Roberts

Dance: IV: Louvre, Minuet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

8916
20 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Cast
Role: Imoinda Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Blandford Actor: Ridout
Role: Hotman Actor: Anderson
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs James
Role: Charlotte Weldon Actor: Mrs Bland

Afterpiece Title: The Perplexd Husband

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Philips; Husband-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Dunstall; Pierot-LaLauze; The whole to Conclude with a Country Dance-Philips; Hornpipe-Philips.
Cast
Role: Husband Actor: Bencraft
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dunstall

Song: I: Beard; III: Consider Fond Shepherd, Tis Liberty alone-Mrs Storer

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: The Amorous Swain, or Rival Nymphs-LaLauze, Mrs Delagarde, Miss Hillyard; V: a Ball Minuet (By Desire)-three scholars of LaLauze

8917
28 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dupre, Froment, and Oates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: See17480102, but Damon-Beard; Phillida-Mrs Storer.
Cast
Role: Phillida Actor: Mrs Storer.

Song: I: Ellen a Roon-Mrs Storer

Dance: II: Dance-Oates; III: Minuet and Louvre-Froment, Madem. Dumont; IV: Peasant-Oates; End: A Pantomime Dance call'd Pigmalion-; Pigmalion-Froment; Statue-Mlle Dumont

8918
07 September 1748 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Lee, Yeates Sen & Jun and Warner's Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. [Prices and description as 24 Aug. bf.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unnatural Parents Or The Fair Maid Of The West

Performance Comment: Sir Adam Wealthy-Phenix; Lord Worthy-Cuthbert; Sir John Lovewell-Cunningham; First Witch-Allen; Second Witch-Adams; Third Witch-Sturgess; Fair Maid of the West-Mrs Daniel; Lady Wealthy-Mrs Ingall; Lady Worthy-Mrs Field; Lady Betty-Mrs Hickson; Trusty-Warner; Coachman-Harrison; Gardener-Thompson; Butler-Mason; Lucy-Mrs Peters; Gillion-Mrs Pile; The Scullion-Miss Jones. See17480824, bf.
Cast
Role: Fair Maid of the West Actor: Mrs Daniel
Role: Lady Wealthy Actor: Mrs Ingall
Role: Lady Worthy Actor: Mrs Field
Role: Lady Betty Actor: Mrs Hickson
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Peters
Role: Gillion Actor: Mrs Pile

Song: SSailor's Song-Cunningham

Dance: The Three Wild Cats of the Woods; Hornpipe-Adams; The Black Joke-Smith, Mrs Bullock

8919
10 May 1749 @ New Wells, Shepherd's Market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorastus And Fawnia Or The Royal Shepherd And Shepherdess

Song: I: Mrs Dodson; End Droll: Green

Dance: II: Adams

8920
16 April 1750 @ New Wells, London Spa, Clerkenwell

Event Comment: At the New Wells, London Spa. To begin at two o'clock and at five o'clock. [This house managed by Matthews, Dancer, and Yeates. See Daily Advertiser 13 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia

Performance Comment: Agamemnon-Nicholls, his first here; Calchas-Rooker; Iphigenia-Mrs Yeates; First Priest-Master Budd; Diana-Mrs Smith (1750 ed.).
Cast
Role: Iphigenia Actor: Mrs Yeates
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Smith

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Mountebank or The Squire Electrified

Performance Comment: Harlequin-M. L'Agile, from Paris; Squire-Yates; Columbine-Mrs Smith; Clown-Warner.
Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Smith

Dance: Matthews, M'Neil, Mrs Addison, Miss Rayner (1750 ed.)

8921
28 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Messrs Desse and Froment. Charges #60. Deficit to the dancers, #19 16s. 3d. each, covered by income from tickets: Desse #47 14s.; Froment #35 2s. Mainpiece: At the desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets sold at doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #20 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Sir Charles Actor: Anderson
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Barrington
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Woffington

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: The Scotch Measure, the Highland Reel-Froment; IV: Tambourine-Jardin; V: Louvre, Minuet-Froment, Mrs Delagarde

Song: III: A Song-Lowe

8922
07 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Yeates and Warner's Great Til'd Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. Interspers'd with the Comical Humours of the Nurse to the Princess Miriam, and her foolish son Zekel, as likewise the Humourous Scene between Captain Bluster, his Man Didymo, and the Witches. [Jeptha-Morrel, instead of Jeptha-$Carr, according to the Daily Advertiser.] To begin each day at Twelve o'clock, during the time of the Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jepthas Rash Vow Or The Virgin Sacrificd

Performance Comment: Jeptha-Carr; Elen-Clark; Jethro-Jones; Toby-Coleman; Zekel-Malone; Didymo-Allen; High Priest-Grimwood; Capt. Bluster-Warner; Nurse-Mrs Smith; Princess Miriam-Mrs Grimwood.
Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Smith
Role: Princess Miriam Actor: Mrs Grimwood.

Music: The Original Musick- as performed by Mrs Lee, with universal applause, about 15 years since

8923
04 May 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Stede, Cushing, Redman and Bennet. Mainpiece: Not acted these seven years. [See 21 April 1748.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Performance Comment: Pilgrim-Ryan; Alphonso-Arthur; Seberto-Gibson; Old Pilgrim-Riccard; Curio-Anderson; Governor-Usher; Roderigo-Sparks; Jaques-Dunstall; Lopez-Bransby; Porter-Barrington; Stuttering Servt-Bennet; Alonzo-Holtham; Mad Englishman-Macklin; Mad Scholar-Dyer; Master of Mad House-Marten; Mad Priest-Bencraft; Mad Taylor-Cushing; Mad Welshman-Collins; Alinda-Mrs Vincent; Juletta-Mrs Ridout; Drunken Servt-Paddick; Vertigo-Redman.
Cast
Role: Curio Actor: Anderson
Role: Alinda Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Juletta Actor: Mrs Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Cast
Role: Arathusa Actor: Mrs Storer 1st appearance there in 3 years.

Dance: II: Two Pierrots, as17520415 III: Grand Comic Ballet, as17511216; V: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; with Clown-Bennet

Song: IV: If Love's a Sweet Passion-Mrs Chambers

8924
06 May 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lawrence, Vaughan and Condell (Boxkeepers)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Freeman Actor: Anderson
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Barrington
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Cast
Role: Arathusa Actor: Mrs Storer 1st appearance there in 3 years.

Dance: I: Two Pierrots, as17520415 V: Drunken Peasant-Phillips, with Clown-Smith

Song: III: If Love's a Sweet Passion-Mrs Chambers

8925
05 April 1753 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Don Platto and Timbertoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory Mrs Midnights Concert And Oratory