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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mrs Cross"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mrs 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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24319 results for: Keyword - Mrs Cross

We found 23450 matches on Performance Comments, 6585 matches on Event Comments, 4316 matches on Performance Title, 2139 matches on Roles/Actors, and 119 matches on Author.

826
10 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Noise still (Cross). Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast

Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Cross.
Role: Lady Capulet Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Cast

Role: Other characters Actor: Johnson, Mrs +Simpson.

827
11 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Noise, & some fighting in ye pit Mr Woodward when ye Entertainment was over each Night gave it out again, which the opposite Party look'd upon as Impudent--ye Inspector wrote against it--the fool, against the Silent Woman, as Indecent, & this Night whatever passages he had mark'd out were hiss'd by two or 3 people (Cross). [The Inspector edited by Dr John Hill.] Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Cast

Role: Silent Woman Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Mrs Otter Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Lady Haughty Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lady Centaure Actor: Mrs Bennett
Role: Mrs Mavis Actor: Mrs Price.

Afterpiece Title: [Harlequin Ranger

Cast

Role: Other characters Actor: Johnson, Mrs +Simpson.

Dance: [As17521102

828
15 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Benefit] for 3 orphan Daughters of a Cit of London (Cross). Tickets to be had at Will's and the Union Coffee House in Cornhill; Grigsby's behind the Royal Exchange; Seagoes in Holborn; the Bedford in Covent Garden; George's in the Haymarket, and at the Stage Door of the Theatre, where places for the Boxes may be taken. Receipts: #264 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast

Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Role: Phyllis Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast

Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet

Song: II: Beard

829
15 January 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Woodward's Night for Making ye Genii (Cross). There was such a Prodigious crowd to get into the Pit and Galleries at Drury Lane, being Mr Woodward's Night, that many of the females who came there with aprons, Handkerchiefs, caps and Capuchins, returned home without them; it was the most numerous and brilliant Audience that has been seen for some time(Public Advertiser, 16 Jan.). Receipts: #206 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast

Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Kitely Actor: Mrs Davies.

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

830
01 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Thomas sung for ye first time in ye Chaplet-very well (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast

Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Kitely Actor: Mrs Davies.

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Cast

Role: Pastora Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: Mlle Auretti

831
31 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For Mad Auretti (Cross). In order to accomodate the Quality and Gentry with places, the Pit and Boxes will be laid together, and the Stage will be formed into an Amphitheatre for the conveniency of Ladies and Gentlemen. Ladies are desired to send servants by 3 o'clock. Receipts: #240 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast

Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Kitely Actor: Mrs Davies.

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: I: Les Caprices de la Dance-Mlle Auretti; II: A Hornpipe-Matthews, a child of five years old his scholar; IV: The Matelot Basque-Mons Ferrere; V: The Louvre, Minuet-M Devisse, Mlle Auretti

Ballet: III: La Chacone des Characters. Harlequin-Mlle Auretti; Punch-Devisse; The Peasant-Mons Gerard (from Paris)

832
21 December 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a family in Distress (Cross). Tickets to be had at the Sword-Blade Coffee House, Birchin Lane, Lombard St.; Prince of Orange Coffee House in the Haymarket; Joe's Coffee House, Mitre Court, Fleet St.; Smyrna Coffee House, Pall Mall; the Swan Tavern, Grafton St.; Warwick-St. Coffee House near Golden Square; the Feather's Tavern, opposite St Clement's Church in the Strand; and of Mr Varney at the stage door. Receipts: #212 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast

Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Cowper.
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast

Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Bennet

Dance: II: New Dutch Dance, as17531117; V: Gipsey Tambourine, as17531012

833
10 January 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Woodward's Night for ye Pantomime (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast

Role: Gipsy Actor: Mrs Simson
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast

Role: Others Actor: Mlle Mariet, Phillips, Clough, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste, Mrs Jefferson, Blakes, Miss Minors, Devisse, Denison, Mlle Lussant.

834
22 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit of Mr Foote (Cross). Tickets of Foote at Mr Ray's, a woolen-draper, in Tavistock Row, Covent Garden, and at the stage door. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17531024, but Belinda-Mrs Mills; Laetitia-Miss Haughton; Fondlewife-Foote (for last time this season).

Cast

Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Cowper

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Cast

Role: Mrs Penelope Trifle Actor: Mrs Cross

835
06 April 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Devisse has Tickets (Cross). Last till Holidays. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast

Role: Others Actor: Mlle Mariet, Phillips, Clough, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste, Mrs Jefferson, Blakes, Miss Minors, Devisse, Denison, Mlle Lussant.

Dance: By Particular Desire. The Louvre and Minuet-Devisse, Mlle Auretti

836
26 April 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Leviez (Cross). Tickets of Leviez at the last House on the right hand in Beaufort Buildings. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Cast

Role: Mrs Loveit Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Emelia Actor: Mrs Cowper
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Orangewoman Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lady Woodvil Actor: Mrs James
Role: Pert Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Cast

Role: Pastora Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: I: The Gipsey Tambourine- see17531012; II: The Country Amusements, as17540416 III: A Hornpipe-Granier, Harrison, Morris; IV: A Serious Dance-Devisse

837
01 April 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Sabatini's (Cross). Mainpiece: At the particular desire of several persons of quality. Tickets to be had of Sg Sabatini at Mr Leviez's in Beaufort Building in the Strand and at the Stage Door. Tickets delivered out for 18th of March will be taken. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast

Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: I: The Italian Fishermen-Sg and Sga Sabatini; III: New Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini; V: A Peasant Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini, Sabatini the younger

838
21 November 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Soon as Mr Garrick appear'd, a great Clap, with some hissing upon wch he said-Gentlemen it is impossible to go on with these hisses, I don't know what offence I am guilty of-they clap'd greatly-& he proceeded-Let one Gentleman speak for the rest & I'll give an Answer-there was a moments pause, & then a general cry of-Go on with the Play &c., all ceased-& all continu'd quiet (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast

Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Mathews

839
13 December 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber who has been ill ever since ye riot on Tus. ye 18 Novr plays (Cross). Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast

Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Performance Comment: As17551201, but Dances-Mrs Vernon.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Mrs Vernon.
Role: Dances Actor: Dennison, Mathews, Granier, Mrs Vernon, Mrs Preston.

840
18 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser
Performance Comment: As17361025, but Clerimont-Cross.
Cast
Role: Clerimont Actor: Cross.
Role: Lappet Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Harriot Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Mrs Wisely Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Wheedle Actor: Mrs Grace.
Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton
Cast
Role: Clymene Actor: Mrs Clive

841
21 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love
Performance Comment: As17411106, but Trapland-Ray; Valentine-Lowe; (with a Prologue on the Occasion, humbly address'd to the Town) Tattle-Cross.
Cast
Role: Tattle Actor: Cross.
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Cross.
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Prue Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Egerton.
Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay
Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Clive.
Role: Lady Lurewell Actor: Mrs Bennet
Song: I: Let me Wander not unseen-Beard; III: Sweet Bird from Milton-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard
Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17411205; V: Le Boufon, as17420325

842
27 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode
Performance Comment: As17420308, but Sir Fopling-Cross; Handy-Raftor; Shoemaker-Neale.
Cast
Role: Sir Fopling Actor: Cross
Role: Mrs Loveit Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Pert Actor: Mrs Macklin
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Lady Woodville Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Bennet
Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield
Dance: I: Dutch Dance-Phillips; II: The Swiss, as17410926; IV: Running Footman-Phillips
Song: III: Beard

843
14 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse
Performance Comment: As17421209, but Young Fashion-Cross.
Cast
Role: Young Fashion Actor: Cross.
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Miss Hoyden Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Cross.
Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet
Cast
Role: Kitty Pry Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Clive
Song: II: Lowe
Dance: III: a Scotch Dance-Froment; IV: Serious Ballet, as17430425 V: Les Amants Volages-Desse, Froment, Mrs Walter

844
17 January 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer
Performance Comment: As17431122, but Brazen-Cross.
Cast
Role: Brazen Actor: Cross.
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Ridout.
Role: Melinda Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Bennett
Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

845
09 May 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple
Performance Comment: As17431101, but Clincher Jun.-Green; Tom Errand-Collins; Vizard-Cross.
Cast
Role: Vizard Actor: Cross.
Role: Sir Harry Wildair Actor: Mrs Woffington, 1st appearance this season
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lady Darling Actor: Mrs Egerton
Role: Parley Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Lady Lurewell Actor: Mrs Giffard.
Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet
Performance Comment: As17440418 but Melissa-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Yates.
Role: Kitty Pry Actor: Mrs Chetwood.
Role: Mrs Gadabout Actor: Mrs Egerton.
Role: Mrs Trippet Actor: Mrs King.

846
17 November 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers
Performance Comment: As17441025, but Bevil Jun.-Giffard; Tom-Cross.
Cast
Role: Tom Actor: Cross.
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet
Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Mann

847
22 April 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bridges, Blakes and Cross, prompter. Afterpiece: By Desire. Mr Garrick's Indisposition continuing, we have, at the particular desire of several ladies, chang'd our play. Tickets deliver'd out for the Stratagem will be taken. [On this Day appeared the Daily Advertiser a full column presentment by the Court of Westminster to the Justices of the Peace against unlicensed players]: This court being inform'd that common Players of Interludes have for several years...assembled...in Mayfair to erect Booths and exhibit Drolls and Shews...whereby numbers of His Majesty's subjects have been encouraged to assemble and commit riots and other Misdemeanours in Breach of His Majesty's Peace, and to the disturbance of the Neighborhood, and that some of the players are and now contracting for ground in order to erect Sheds, Booths and other places...for shewing and acting plays...&c, &c, &c...for the more effectual suppressing of the evils aforesaid, it is hereby recommended unto his Majesty's Justices of the Peace to meet together at such time as they shall appoint in order to proceed according to the law against all such offenders as shall be brought before them by the peace officers, who are required to be aiding the Justice of the Peace. [The gist of the Presentment lies in the statement]: that they [the Justices] shall apprehend all and every other person and Persons who in any other place or places within the said City and Liberty shall act or represent for gain, any Tragedy, Comedy, Opera, Play, Interlude, Farce, or any other Entertainment for the stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers
Cast
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet
Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Dance: I: Sga Bettini; III: Muilment
Song: II: Lowe; V: Nanny O (By Desire)-Lowe

848
26 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross); #112 17s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband
Cast
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Elmy
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Macklin
Role: Miss Jenny Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Horsington
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Woffington.
Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens
Cast
Role: Tag Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Aunt Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Miss Biddy Actor: Mrs Green.

849
27 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Powel: Rec'd of the Orange Woman for selling Fruit in the House, in part of #80 for the Season-#10. Receipts: #100 (Cross); #88 14s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice
Cast
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Nerissa Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Jessica Actor: Mrs Ridout
Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens
Cast
Role: Tag Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Aunt Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Miss Biddy Actor: Mrs Green.
Dance: IV: Dance-Cooke

850
31 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On Monday next, As You Like It, with Dancing by the Two Mademoiselle Auretti's, 1st time of their appearing on that stage. Receipts: #160 (Cross); #118 6s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved
Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Cibber.
Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens
Cast
Role: Tag Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Aunt Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Miss Biddy Actor: Mrs Green.

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