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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.

5326
17 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality, and for the last time this season. Receipts: #100 (Cross); #83 12s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: [The Lying Valet

Dance: [III: Savoyards, as17471215; IV: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

5327
18 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Hobson. Receipts: #200 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17480506; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326

5328
10 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for Boxes to be taken of Mr Hobson at the stage door of the Theatre. To begin exactly at six o'clock (General Advertiser). [This customary notice for all subsequent bills will not be mentioned further this season.] Receipts: #80 (Cross); #88 7s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

5329
13 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #70 (Cross); #95 13s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

5330
17 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [See Occasional Prologue spoken at cg by Mr Barry (28 Sept. 1750): @When vice and folly overruns the state,@Weak politicians lay the blame on fate...@If Shakespeare's Passion, or if Johnson's art@Can fire your fancy, or can warm your heart,@That task be ours;--but if you damn, their scenes@And heroes must give way to Harlequins.@We too can have recourse to Mime and Dance@Nay there I think we have the better chance;@And should the town grow weary of the Mute@Why--we'll produce--a Child upon the flute@ This infant piper referred to again satirically in a Guide to the Stage, 2nd ed., 1751, p. 7.] Rec'd of Mr Warner for arrears at his Benefit 16 May last, #5 14s. As this belong'd to last season's Account, I shall make an allowance, and accordingly subtract it from the sum total (Powel). Receipts: #70 (Cross); #92 12s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Imposter

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Music: I: Concerto on Flute-a Child five years of age (1st time of his appearing on any stage); III: Another piece of music-the Child

5331
24 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross); #150 1s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

5332
27 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By desire. Powel: Rec'd of Mr Wolfall [Woodfall?] for a ticket for the season to admit one into any part of the house, behind the scenes and to Benefit nights excepted--#15 15s. N.B.: These tickets us'd to be no more than ten guineas each before Mr Garrick's time, as for example Mr Ibbeston upon Ludgate hill, and Mr Tinker gave no more for theirs. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #166 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

5333
04 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross); #139 10s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

5334
11 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By desire. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #147 17s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: V: Savoyards, as17480920

5335
13 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #115 8s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

5336
14 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #141 9s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

5337
18 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross); #124 10s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Music: By particular Desire, Concerto on Flute, as17480917

5338
19 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Massenger, never acted there. Receipts: #120 (Cross); #93 14s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Dance: II: Savoyards, as17480920; V: Dance of Gondoliers-Cooke

Music: III: Concerto on Flute, as17480917

5339
20 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #93 14s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Dance: As17481019

Music: As17481019

5340
21 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TThe Fair Penitent is deferr'd, on account of Mr Barry's Indisposition, till tomorrow. Receipts: #110 (Cross); #95 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17481019

Music: As17481019

5341
22 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the particular desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #131 6s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Music: CConcerto on Flute-the Child

5342
25 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross); #134 11s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17480920

Music: SScotch Sonata on Flute-the Child

5343
01 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #89 1s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027

Ballet: End of Play: Vertumnus and Pomona. As17481027

5344
02 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross); #158 10s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

5345
03 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #30 (Cross); #49 12s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Music: I: Scots Sonato on Flute-the Child; IV: A Piece of Music on Flute-the Child

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027; III: The Savoyards, as17480920

Ballet: V: Vertumnus and Pomona. Cooke, Anne Auretti

5346
04 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross); #141 14s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

5347
05 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross); #130 19s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Ballet: VVertumnus and Pomona. As17481103

5348
08 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross); #167 17s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

5349
09 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #50 (Cross); #64 2s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Music: I: Scots Sonato-the child; IV: Piece of Music-the Child

Dance: III: New Comic Dance call'd Italian Cabaret-Matthews, Mrs Addison

Ballet: V: Vertumnus and Pomona. As17481103

5350
10 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. [A long critical analysis of The Orphan appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine this month, admitting that it evoked compassion, but finding it deficient in "exhibiting some useful instruction."] Receipts: #130 (Cross); #109 4s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: V: Savoyards, as17480920