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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.

6226
25 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Davies. Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. Tickets to be had at Mr Davies's No 16 in New Crown Court, Covent Garden. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Dance: IV: Minuet-Miss Pritchard

6227
26 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. Afterpiece: By particular Desire. Tickets of Holland at No 17 New Crown Court, Bow St., Covent Garden. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

6228
27 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Blakes and Miss Haughton. Tickets of Blakes in Duke's Court, Bow Street, and of Varney at the Stage Door, where tickets and places for Miss Haughton may be had. Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Song: I: Beard

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): John Cartwright Cross

Dance: V: A Hornpipe-Mathews

6229
29 April 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Leviez. No Building on the stage. Tickets of Leviez at the last House on the right hand in Beaufort Buildings, Strand, &c. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: New entertainment of dancing, particularly End: , by Desire a Minuet-Leviez, Miss Pritchard

6230
02 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton and Philips. Last time of performing the Afterpiece this season. Tickets deliver'd by Mr Hayes will be taken. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [See 2 Feb. 1753.] This month was published An Answer to that Important Question Whether it is lawful for the Professors of the Christian Religion to go to plays (32 pp.) [Advises members of the Congregation to read Scriptures instead.] Also published A Letter of Abuse to David Garrick. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Tamer Tam'd

Song: I: Miss Young

Dance: II: A Comic Dance [dancers unspecified]-; III: A Hornpipe-Harrison; IV: A New Comic Dance-

6231
03 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood [Sub-Treasurer]. Mainpiece: For last time this season. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Minors will be taken. Tickets to head of Wood at Mr Burn's in James St., Covent Garden, &c. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

6232
05 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Rooker and Mrs Cowper. Afterpiece: By Desire. Tickets of Varney at the stage door. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Song: I: Miss Young; IV: Beard

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Walker

6233
07 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jefferson and Champnes. Mainpiece: By Desire. Tickets delivered for Love Makes a Man will be taken. Yesterday Five Guineas were paid into the Hands of Justice Fielding by Miss Macklin, for the use of the Marine Society, towards clothing men and boys for the sea, to go on board His Majesty's ships (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: I: Sing all ye Muses, compos'd by the late Mr H. Purcel,-Beard, Champnes

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Walker; IV: The last new Comic Dances-

6234
10 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Raftor, Clough, Roger and Bullbrick. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: [Toy-Shop ]The Author

6235
12 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickenson, First-Gallery Office-Keeper. Receipts: #250 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

6236
14 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Verney, House-keeper. Afterpiece: Acted but once these 3 years. Receipts: #260 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Song: IV: By desire, Ellen@a@Roon with variations on the Harp-Parry

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

6237
17 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baker, Robinson, Goodwin. No building on Stage. Tickets delivered for The Revenge will be taken. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

6238
19 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Foley, Mortimer, and Saunderson. Receipts. #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Mrs Vernon; V: A Hornpipe-Walker

6239
20 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Veal, Tomlings, Humphrys. Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Walker

6240
23 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer, Morris, W. Vaughan. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: IV: The Drunken Peasant-Morris; The Clown-W. Vaughan; V: A Hornpipe-Morris

6241
24 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

6242
26 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Last time of performing these pieces this season. Receipts; #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Dance: I: A Comic Dance-

6243
27 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: We Play'd at Covent Garden the Beggars Opera & ye School Boy for Mr Morgan's Benefit, several of our Company play'd, with leave from ye Managers (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

6244
15 September 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

6245
17 September 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

6246
20 September 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

6247
20 September 1757 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: PPublic Advertiser: Mr Vanneschi begs leave to inform the Nobility and Gentry, that a Licence being granted to him from the Lord Chamberlain's office, with his Majesty's most gracious Approbation, for exhibiting Italian operas at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, Subscriptions for the ensuing Season will be taken in by Mess. Drummond and Co., Bankers at Charing Cross. He humbly desires his Protectors and Subscribers, to oblige him with an early Payment of their Subscription Money, in order that he may be able to give the necessary Securities to Sga Colomba Mattei, and to Sg Pasquale Potenza, as also to the Rest of his Singers and Dancers. It being given out that Mr Vanneschi hath not engaged the Use of the Opera House for the ensuing Season of Operas, it is hereby certified, that the Proprietor thereof hath agreed with Mr Vanneschi for the same. Sign'd by order of the Proprietor. Peter Crawford, Treasurer of said Theatre

Performances

6248
22 September 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

6249
24 September 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. [This note appears on all subsequent notices for the play this season, and will not be recorded further here.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

6250
27 September 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Being the Death of the Duke of Buckinghamv; the Trial and Divorce of Queen Catherinev; the Death of Cardinal Wolseyv; The Christening of Princess Elizabethv; and many other Historical Passages. [This customary note accompanying each subsequent announcement this season will not be repeated further.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay