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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Richard Cross"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Richard 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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6982 results for: Keyword - Richard Cross
We found 3146 matches on Event Comments, 2098 matches on Author, 1857 matches on Performance Comments, 931 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4601
30 October 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Great Calling for ye Imitations & they were done (Cross). Receipts: #130 (Cross); #160 10s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Diversions of the Morning

4602
06 November 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Imitations as before (Cross). Receipts: #130 (Cross); #154 9s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Diversions of the Morning

4603
09 November 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Imitations as before (Cross). Receipts: #100 (Cross); #143 18s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Diversions of the Morning

4604
02 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Garrick did Marplot Mr Garrick spoke an Epilogue to the Busy Body & was greatly receiv'd, the Audience wou'd fain have had it repeated, but when I told 'em he was not well, the noise ceas'd. Mr Grimaldi [hurt?] in a Jump in the Swiss (Cross). Receipts: #210 (Cross); #204 10s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: TThe Swiss, as17581102

4605
13 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Lock Hospital (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross); Charges #84 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

4606
18 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Foote advertis'd the Author, with Alterations for his farce, but Mr Apreece obtain'd an order from ye Ld Chamberlain to stop it. Benefit for Mr Foote (Cross). Foote advertised that he would deliver [an apology] that night at Drury Lane at his benefit there against any imputation against him on account of the Author being prohibited (Winston MS 8). Advertised Diversions of the Morning for positively the last time (playbill). Receipts: #220 (Cross); Charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Diversions of the Morning

Dance: III: The German Hunters, as17580916; IV: Spanish Dance, as17581014

4607
20 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye General Lying-in-Hospital. Afterpiece a new farce (Cross). Part of Pit laid into Boxes & Amphitheatre on Stage. Ladies are desired to send their servants at 3 o'clock. Receipts: #320 (Cross); Charges #84 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Rout

4608
21 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Farce dislik'd (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross); #169 18s. 6d. (Winston MS 8). [See review of the reception and circumstances of publication in Gentleman's Magazine (p. 37), which presents Hill in no good light. See also review of A Letter to the Honourable Author of the Rout (idem.) with its charges against Garrick.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rout

4609
26 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross); #125 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17581214

4610
28 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Macklin dy'd (Cross). The Rout deferred by indisposition of a principal performer. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #132 15s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

4611
29 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Oram (our Painter) dy'd-a worhty honest Man (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross); #147 6s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17581214

4612
30 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #166 14s. (Winston MS 8). Sun. Dec. 31, 1758 Mrs Macklin buried at Covent Garden (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

4613
01 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Oram buried at St. Martins (Cross). [This year was translated and published Rousseau's Letter to M D'Alembert (Preface and 190 pp.) on the effect of dramatic entertainments on mankind. Thesis: Aim of the stage is to amuse; authors succeed when they follow the whims of the public. "Let us not then attribute to the stage a power of changing opinions or manners, when it is only that of following or heightening them."] Receipts: #130 (Cross); #129 16s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

4614
03 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This Play tho' all new dress'd and had Fine Scenes did not seem to give ye audience any great plasure, or draw any applause (Cross). Written by Shakespear. Never Acted there. New Habits, Scenes, and Decorations. Nothing under Full Prices will be taken during the Performance. No Gentleman can possibly be admitted behind the Scenes, or into the Orchestra on account of the Music, Decorations, and number of Performers which are necessary to the Representation (playbill). [See "Garrick's Presentation of Antony and Cleopatra," RES, Jan. 1937. The following characters appear in Capel's acting text, 23 Oct. 1958, Maecenas-Cross">Atkins; Proculeius-$Austin; Soothsayer-$Burton; Mardian-$Perry; Seleucas-$Burton.] Receipts: #200 ($Cross); #193 14s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

4615
08 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Taswell dy'd -an excellent Actor, the best in that Way since Johnson (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross); #165 16s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

4616
12 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (playbill). Prince of Wales and 6 more (Cross). Receipts: #210 (Cross). [Kemble's note in MacMillan suggests that Holland was ill so Garrick gave Moody 5 guineas to play Thyreus, actually his first appearance at dl.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

4617
19 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales (playbill). Prince of Wales & 9 More (Cross). [The provoked Wife had been given out as By Desire.] Receipts: #200 (Cross); #174 18s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: III: The German Hunters, as17580916

Song: IV: Miss Young

4618
31 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tomorrow will be reviv'd a Tragedy (not acted these 30 years) call'd The Ambitious Stepmother. Antony and Cleopatra is deferr'd a few days. Receipts: #200 (Cross); #197 13s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17581214

4619
01 February 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: went off very Dent off very Dull (Cross); Mainpiece: not acted in 30 years. Receipts: #130 (Cross); #148 15s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Step Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

4620
03 February 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit of Mr Crisr Smart, an Ingenious young Man In poetry, but now confin'd in a Mad house the farce had universal applause (Cross). Afterpiece: A new Comedy in 2 Acts. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Tickets delivered out for the 26th of January will be taken. Receipts: #285 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

4621
10 February 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales (playbill). Prince & 6 more (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross); #186 (Winston MS 8). The Guardian publish'd at 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Stepmother

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

4622
22 February 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross); #196 1s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17581214

4623
26 February 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales (playbill). Prince & 6 more (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross); #197 12s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Crononhotonthologos

4624
03 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Dull (Cross). [For alleged reason, see Biographia Dramatica, wherein Mallet blamed actors' negligence regarding pathos.] Not acted in 24 years. Revised by the author. No admittance behind scenes. Full Prices. Receipts: #190 (Cross); #189 15s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eurydice

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17581214

4625
17 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales (playbill). Prince and 5 more (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross); #180 14s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eurydice

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17581214