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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.

5701
16 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Ye Inspector had put a Letter saying Mr Woodward's words to Fitzpatrick were--I have notic'd you & shall see you another time. In Answer to wch Mr Woodward made an Affidavid & publish'd it in the Gen. Advertiser--that he said no more than I thank you, Sir,--Mr Fitzpatrick had in ye Inspector put in an advertism[en]t upon his Honour, Woodward said the other Words. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17521106, but Piettro, Miss +Rayner, Mad Auretti; III: A +Hornpipe-Mathews

5702
28 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Dramatic Masque not acted these two years. Receipts: #70 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

5703
29 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Song: The Song of Sweet Echo-a young Gentleman who never sung on any stage before

5704
02 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [L+Letter from Henry Woodward, Comedian, The Meanest of all Characters To Dr John Hill, Inspector-General of Great Britain, the greatest of all characters completely damns Hill as unsuccessful player, apothecary, doctor, scholar, writer, and gentleman. It ran to three editions in the year.] We hear great interest is being made to succeed Mr Serjeant Shore, deceased, as Serjeant Trumpet to his Majesty, which is in the gift of his Grace the Duke of Grafton as Lord Chamberlain; and that the contest lies chiefly between that excellent performer, Mr. Valentine Snow, Trumpet to the First Troop of Horseguards; Mr. Debourg, the violin; and Mr Beard, of the theatre Royal in Drury Lane (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: AA Dutch Dance, as17521125

5705
05 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire; Afterpiece: By Desire. The Tragedy of Don Sebastian, King of Portugal, written by Dryden; and the Rehearsal, written by the Duke of Buckingham, are reviving at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, and will be play'd there soon alternately. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: II: A Dutch Dance, as17521125; IV: The Hungarian Peasants, as17521125

5706
06 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Receipts: #40 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: [Queen Mab

Dance: [Several Entertainments-. [See17521201]

5707
07 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Dryden. Not acted in 20 years. Receipts: #70 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian, King Of Portugal

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

5708
08 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Woodward said--I have been getting you (to Bayes) a fine parcel of Monsters, & they have knock'd me down & taken 'em from me--(thinking of the late Dispute) a little hissing &c. but it went off--Great Applause all thro'. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Concluding: Devisse, Mad Auguste

5709
08 December 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Prologue, Epilogue and Pastoral Dialogue. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Addison. A New Pastoral Dialogue for the benefit of ye Author of ye Dialogue, Cook ye Poet (Cross). [The Prologue was on comic poetry (spoken by Ryan); the Epilogue was on the Comic Characters of Women (spoken by Mrs Bland). See published version (London, 1753 "to which is prefixed an Ode to John Rich, Esq:"--British Museum 11795 K 31).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Entertainment: NNew Prologue, Epilogue, likewise a New Pastoral Dialogue (never perform'd before)-Lowe, Mrs Lampe; The music by Mr Arne-

Dance: LLes Chasseurs Allemandes, as17521207

5710
09 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Letter to Woodward from Samson Edwards, The Merry Cobler of Haymarket. Answer to Henry Woodward's reply on Hill's Letter, 6d. Ironical defense of Hill casting further opprobrium upon him.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

5711
11 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: Le Matelot Basque, as17521005; A Dutch Dance, as17521125; L'Entree de Flore, as17521122

5712
12 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tomorrow, Don Sebastian, to which will be added Harlequin Ranger, with a scene never perform'd before. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17521208

5713
13 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: As17521208

5714
16 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: As17521208

5715
18 December 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Cross suggests Contrivances for the afterpiece, but the Public Advertiser advertised Damon and Phillida.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17521216

5716
29 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

5717
30 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

5718
04 January 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [No Public Advertiser today.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

5719
06 January 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece, announced at foot of bills for Dec. 12, 13, 1752 had been deferred on account of Mossop's illness.] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

5720
08 January 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts:#170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

5721
08 January 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A Gentleman did Theodosius. First appearance. He played pretty (Cross). He is identified as William? Smith in Rich's Register

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17521028; Il Pastore, as17521219

5722
10 January 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

5723
11 January 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

5724
13 January 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Next week will be publish'd the Hilliad, Book the First, written by Mr Smart. [Another document in the Woodward-Hill feud.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser; or, Wagner and Abericock Author(s): Richard Jones

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

5725
16 January 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Genii