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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.

901
27 December 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Cast
Role: Mrs Wisely Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Wheedle Actor: Mrs Benet
Role: Mariana Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Willoughby
Role: Lappet Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Blakes, Shuter, Vaughan, Atkins, Costollo, Mrs Bennet, Mad Mariet, Miss Minors, Mrs Yates, Mrs Toogood, Beard, Sigr Piettero, Siga Piettero, Harvey, Pelling, Roger, Shawford, Shawford Jun, Harrison, Mrs Addison, Mad Mariet, Mrs Toogood, Mrs Shawford, Miss Shawford, Mrs Santimore, Matthews, Mad J. Auretti

902
04 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

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

903
10 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Dame Kiteley Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

904
14 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Cross.
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Willoughby
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

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

905
16 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. As Mr Edward Berry, one of the comedians of Drury Lane, was returning home from Temple Bar, he was stopt at the end of Arundel St. by three Fellows, one with a Horse-Pistol, another with a short pistol, and the other with a hanger, who robb'd him of his watch, some silver, and his Neck-cloth, and then walk'd off with their booty (General Advertiser, 20 Jan.). During the Performance on Saturday Night [11 Jan.] at Drury Lane, a dispute was carried on at great length between Mr V-n and a Gentleman unknown but on the Gentleman's being made sensible of his error, and making publick submission and Gentleman-like reparation, it was amicably terminated (General Advertiser). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Dame Kiteley Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

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

906
17 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Goneril Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Lottery

Cast
Role: Daphne Actor: Mrs Clive

907
25 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Publish'd, A Treatise of the Passions so far as they regard the stage &c., by Mr Foote. 1s. [First pub. 1747, it contains an interesting comment on Garrick's Lear.] Romeo and Juliet which was bespoke, and was to have been acted last Monday at Drury Lane, will be acted there next Monday, Miss Bellamy being recovered from her late indisposition. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Dame Kiteley Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Lottery

Cast
Role: Daphne Actor: Mrs Clive

908
31 January 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [Dancing by Mad Auretti had been forecast in the bill for 29 Jan., but is mentioned on the bill of the day.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Dame Kiteley Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: Fine Lady Actor: Mrs Clive.

909
04 February 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Willoughby
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

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

Dance: II: Grand Provincial Dance-Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

910
02 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #50 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Flareit Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Mrs Anne Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Hillaria Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Narcissa Actor: Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Song: III: Mattocks

911
08 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Palmer. Tickets at his lodgings, at Mr Watson's Linnen Draper, Corner Charles St., Covent Garden; and at Stage Door of Theatre. [Ray inserted a long plea for benefit support on the General Advertiser, saying that Mr William Barton, who keeps the Black Swan Tavern on Bartholomew Lane, will do his visiting and deliver his tickets for him since he, Ray, is so ill.] Receipts: #78 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Cross.
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Willoughby
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Cast
Role: Chloe Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: By Desire.A Hornpipe-The Little Swiss

912
16 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Leviez. No Building on stage. Tickets at his, the lowest House on the Right-Hand in Beaufort Buildings in the Strand; and at Stage Door of Theatre. Receipts: #125 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers

Cast
Role: Sabrina Actor: Mrs Simson
Role: Florimel Actor: Mrs Pritchard, first time
Role: Doralice Actor: Mrs Willoughby
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs James
Role: Philotas Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Olinda Actor: Mrs Bennett
Role: with songs proper to the part and an Italian Mi Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Beleza Actor: Mrs Toogood.

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Dance: II: A Peasant Dance-Master Piettro; III: A Comic Dance-Sg Piettro, Janeton Auretti; IV: a Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; V: L'Entree de Flore, as17511015; a Peasant Dance, as17511015

913
28 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow and Family in Distress. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Receipts: #250 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

Song: II: Mattocks

914
01 May 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Roger, W. Vaughan, Shawford, and Sturt. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Willoughby
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

Cast
Role: Dorothea Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Dance: II: The Pierrots-Roger, Shawford Jun; III: A Scotch Dance, as17520427 IV: A Hornpipe-Shawford Jun; V: A Comic Dance-Shawford Jun, Miss Shawford

915
31 October 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [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: [Queen Mab

Dance: [As17521026

916
01 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Particular Desire. Receipts: #70 (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: [The Intriguing Chambermaid

Cast
Role: Lettice Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Mrs Highman Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Dance: [As17521026

917
20 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy taken ill. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Goneril Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet

918
23 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

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

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: IV: Le Matelot Basque, as17521005

919
01 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Characters dress'd in the habits of the time. Receipts: #100 (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

Cast
Role: Isabel Actor: Mrs Simpson.

Dance: Several entertainments-Devisse, Mad Auguste, Ferrere, Mad Auretti

920
21 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Narcissa Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Hillaria Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Flareit Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Mrs Anne Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: New Dance call'd% The Italian Gardeners-Devisse, Mlle Auguste; The Hungarian Peasants, as17521125

921
22 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This day at noon will be published at 6d. A Letter to Mr Henry Woodward, Comedian, occasioned by his letter to the Inspector. by Simon Partridge, the facetious Cobbler of Pall Mall, and son to the late Mr Partridge, famous for his dispute with Isaac Bickerstaff. "Barbarian to attack, a chymist, Critick, Journalist, and Quack" (Anon). Printed for H. Jeffrey in Pope's Head Alley, Cornhill. [Another mock defense of Hill, casting opprobrium on him in the manner of the eightenth-century bully boys of the bathroom. A second edition of Sampson Edwards' Letter to Woodward appeared this day. See Comment, 9 Dec.] Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Narcissa Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Hillaria Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Flareit Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Mrs Anne Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Kate Actor: Mrs Simpson

Dance: TThe Italian Gardeners, as17521221; Le Matelot Basque, as17521005

922
23 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Last time of performing till the Holidays. This Day publish'd at 6d. Dr Bobadil's Monody: Occasioned by an unhappy Accident he met with at Ranelagh last summer, with a preface and notes Variorum by Quinbus Flestrin [Ch. Smart?]. What lane but knows@Our purgings, Pumpings, Blanketings and Blows?" Pope. Sold by W. Owen, at Temple Bar, and the pamphlet shops. [Another document in the Woodward-Hill feud.] 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 Double Disappointment

923
27 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Mrs Trusty Actor: Miss Hippisley
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

924
28 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts #170 (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 Genii

Song: II: Beard

925
01 January 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [This month was publish'd another pamphlet in the Woodward-Hill controversy, A Lick at Them All, or the Moderator, (16 pages) "being a candid consideration of the present controversy between the Inspector and his opposers" (Gentleman's Magazine).] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Narcissa Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Hillaria Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Flareit Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Mrs Anne Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Performance Comment: As17521226, but other characters-Shuter, Blakes, Leviez, Ackman, the Little Swiss, Master Simson, Simson, Lewis, Miss Minors, Miss Price, Mrs Mathews, Miss Shawford, Mad Mariet; The Dances-Devisse, Ferrere, Mad Auguste, Mad Auretti.
Cast
Role: other characters Actor: Shuter, Blakes, Leviez, Ackman, the Little Swiss, Master Simson, Simson, Lewis, Miss Minors, Miss Price, Mrs Mathews, Miss Shawford, Mad Mariet