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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.

5801
20 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [C$Cross suggested Harlequin Sorcerer as afterpiece.] Maranesi was to have danc'd, but broke his arm in ye practise, ye night before (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Dance: Cooke, Miss Hilliard

5802
22 October 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

5803
23 October 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

5804
23 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMiss Nossiter's name first appeared in the Bills (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Dance: As17531018

5805
24 October 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. [See 28 Jan. 1746.] Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

5806
24 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 'TTis said Miss Bellamy, who engag'd lately with Mr Rich is off again. Mr Colthorp who kept her, swears to kick Rich &c. Great noise about it in ye Bedford Coffee House (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Camargo

5807
29 October 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Performance of mainpiece highly praised in Gray's Inn Journal 3 Nov. It is no wonder that in some scenes the Emotions of the Audien ce run so extremely high, as they were acted upon by the two best Tragedians in the world." Garrick and Mossop. Also praises Foote's Fondlewife in previous performances of the Old Batchelor.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

5808
29 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMrs Bland's husband broke his leg on Friday riding an unruly horse & dy'd yesterday (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

5809
30 October 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Publish'd at 3s. The Actor, in One Pocket Volume. A treatise on the art of playing, interspersed with Observations on the performances of Garrick, Quin, Barry, Berry, Macklin, Ryan, Havard, Woodward, Foote, &c; Mrs Cibber, Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Woffington, Mrs Ward, Mrs Elmy, Mrs Green, Mrs Clive, Miss Bellamy, &c. Also some anecdotes of Betterton, Booth and Wilkes and other celebrated performers; together with occasional remarks upon managers and audiences, and upon the principal Tragedies, Comedies, Masques and Farces. Printed for R. Griffiths in Paul's Church-yard. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

5810
01 November 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Two days ago a Letter [price 1s.] came out to Miss Nossiter in which Mrs Cibber is abu'd & tother greatly extoll'd. The Author has also fell foul upon Mr Murphy author of Gray's Inn Journal. It is wrote by one Morgan an Irish Gent: High words has pass'd at ye Bedford Coff. H. between him and Murphy & 'tis thought a Duel will be ye Consequence (Cross). [See The Authorship of a Letter to Miss Nossiter, Shakespeare Quarterly, January 1952, p. 69.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

5811
02 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

5812
03 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: TThe Neopolitans, as17531101; Dance in Demi@Character, as17531101

5813
03 November 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The contending Parties [i.e., Murphy and MacNamara Morgan] Met again on Fryday at the Bedford, in order to accomodate Matters, but words arising, because Mr Murphy did not ack[nowledge] pardon and cried enough, as Mr Morgan said, some blows past & swords out-but no mischief. Morgan denies the letter (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: DDutch Dance, as17531018

5814
05 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #50 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: End II: The Neopolitans, as17531101; III: The Gipsey Tambourine, as17531012; V: Dance in Demi@Characters-Mlle Proudhomme

5815
08 November 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: RRomeo and Juliet? was to have been, but Barry sick (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Squire Richard Actor: Collins

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

5816
09 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Song: IV: Miss Thomas, proper to the play

5817
10 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Entertainments-LeFevre, Mlle Prud'homme, Devisse, Mlle Auguste

5818
12 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

5819
13 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: The Neopolitans, as17531101

5820
14 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: An Arabian Night's Entertainment in Two Parts With Proper Decorations. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

5821
14 November 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMiss Nossiter did Belvidera-vast applause (Cross). [$Murphy in Gray's Inn Journal, 16 Nov., noticed Miss Nossiter's appearance in Belvidera, commenting "that she is, upon many occasions Mistress of the Surprising Attitude and Action," agreeing that she gave promise of excellence, wishing that her voice would mellow into more harmony and softness, and delivering a paragraph of advice from Quintilian on the error of false emphasis in elocution.

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

5822
15 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

5823
17 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Murphy in Gray's Inn Journal puffed' the tragedy Boadicia in rehearsal at dl, commending the casting, and praising the author. See 1 Dec.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: II: New Dutch Dance-LeFevre

5824
19 November 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for a Gentlewoman in distress (Cross). Tomorrow, Theodosius, with Varanes-$Barry; Athenais-$Miss Belamy, "Being her first on that stage these 4 years.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: DDutch Dance, as17531018

5825
20 November 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy play'd Athenais. Sad House (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: The Italian Peasants-Granier, 1st performance there in Five years, Mlle Camargo