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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "R Cross"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "R 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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5659 results for: Keyword - R. Cross
We found 2957 matches on Performance Comments, 2884 matches on Event Comments, 256 matches on Performance Title, 115 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4301
13 May 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Receipts: #100 (Cross); #76 4s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Dance: Cook, Anne Auretti

4302
16 May 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Foley (Lobby Door Keeper), Saunders (Stage-Door Keeper), and Bride. Receipts: #100 (Cross); charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Music: II: A Piece on the Flute-the Child

4303
19 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

4304
20 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #40 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

4305
21 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #70 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: IV: Master Mattocks

4306
22 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: IV: Master Mattocks

4307
23 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Last Thursday morning, Mr Harrington, Prompter to the Theatre Royal, being delerious and in a high fever, in the absence of his Nurse-keeper, threw himself out of his lodging window, and was killed by the fall. [See A Full and true Account of the woeful and wonderftl apparition of Hurloe Harrington, late prompter to the Theatre Royal in Dublin (London, 1750).] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: IV: Master Mattocks

4308
26 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

4309
30 September 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #60 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: IV: Master Mattocks

4310
03 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Mr Barry play'd Hamlet. Receipts: #170. (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

4311
11 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Dramatic Masque reviv'd. With proper Decorations, particularly a Grand Scene of Comus's Palace. The Music composed by Mr Arne. Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

4312
12 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Receipts: #60 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

4313
20 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #40 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: III: Mattocks

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17491018

4314
21 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

4315
23 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Play of Hamlet is oblig'd to be deferr'd. [An extra notice appeared in the General Advertiser: This evening the Play of the Provok'd Wife will be perform'd at Drury Lane, the parts of Sir John and Lady Brute to be performed by Garrick and Mrs Pritchard."] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: Master Mattocks

Dance: CComic Dance-Matthews, M'Neil, Mrs Addison

4316
24 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Dance: II: A New Grand Comic Ballad, called the Venetian Gardeners-M Grandchamps, 1st time of his performing in England, Madem Auretti, Pelling, Shawford, Macneal, George Yates, Harrison, Master Shawford, Mrs Addison, Mlle Mariet, Miss Baker, Mrs Shawford, Mrs L'Font, Miss Shawford; IV: Grand Ballet L'Entree de Flore-Mlle Auretti

Song: III: Master Mattocks

4317
25 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #70 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance: As17491024

Song: As17491024

4318
26 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Song:

4319
27 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

4320
28 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Matthews, Mrs Addison, the Little Swiss

4321
31 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #60 (Cross); #75 4s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Grand Scotch Dance-Matthews, Mlle Auretti; IV: Venetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

4322
06 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid to G. Garrick by order of managers #5 5s.; Paid to Glovers Bill 18s.; Paid a bill per order Mr Garrick #4 2d. (Treasurer's Book). [Further records this season indicate that "Glover's Bill" which occurrs regularly each Monday was a constant sum paid to a tavern or coffee house, rather than to a glover. The average payment was #1 15s. weekly, amounting to about #56 for the season. It will not be itemized further.] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #115 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

4323
07 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Paid Blandford (Tallow Chandler) #18 8s. 1d.; Paid Middlebrook for a B[lack] & W[hite] Feather 15s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #130 (Cross); #88 15s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: Matthews, Mrs Addison

Song: Master Mattocks

4324
15 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid to the Covt Garden Subscription #2 15s. 1d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #80 (Cross); #86 12s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Song: Master Mattocks

Ballet: SSavoyard Travellers. As17491110

4325
16 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Mr Calthorpe 30 nights #63 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #210 (Cross); #190 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd