Toggle Sphinx Query
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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?
+
+

Keyword

?
New Search
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.

726
30 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #190 (Cross); #182 12s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear, And His Three Daughters

Performance Comment: Lear-Garrick; Edgar-Havard; Gentleman Usher-Neale; Cordelia-Mrs Cibber; Gloster -Berry; Bastard-Mills; Kent-Winstone; Albany-Mozeen; Cornwall-Blakes; Burgundy-Marr; Goneril-Mrs Bennet; Regan-Mrs Cross.
Cast
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

727
23 December 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire; Being the last Time of Performing till the Holidays. Receipts: #180 (Cross); #179 11s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17471114, but Regan-Mrs Cross.
Cast
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: A New Tambourine-Anne Auretti

728
19 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As written by Shakespear. Receipts: #200 (Cross); #188 13s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Garrick; Macduff-Delane; Ross-Lee; Banquo-Havard; Duncan-Sparks; Malcolm-Blakes; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Pritchard; Lennox-Mozeen; Siward-Winstone; Donalbain-Miss Cole; Hecate-Berry; Witches-Arthur, Neale, Yates; Young Siward-Bransby; Fleance-Master Cross; Seyton-Ray; Angus-Simpson; Doctor-Taswell; Lady-Miss Minors; Lady Macduff-Mrs Mills; With songs-; dances-, and other decorations.
Cast
Role: Fleance Actor: Master Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

729
07 September 1748 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Bridges, Cross, Burton, and Vaughan's Great Theatrical Booth on the Bowling Green, Southwark, (with a company from the theatres) during the short time of the Fair will be presented an Historical Drama (lately acted in Bartholemew Fair with universal applause) the Northern Heroes with the Loves of Count Gillensternia, a Swedish General, and the fair Ellimira a Russian Princess, containing the most remarkable events of that time; and concluding with the memorable battle of Putlowav, and Charles's retreat into the Turkish dominionsv. Interspersed with a comic interlude, The Volunteers. Also the comical humours and amours of Corporal Garbage and Serjeant Slim, with Mrs Vanspriggen the Swedish Sutler's widow, the merry pranks of her foolish son Janny, and several other diverting incidents. As the Fair will be of so short continuance, we shall begin very early each day (General Advertiser). [See 24 Aug. 1748, bf]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Northern Heroes; Or, The Bloody Contest Between Charles The Twelfth, King Of Sweden, And Peter The Great, Czar Of Muscovy

Performance Comment: Charles XII-Usher; Prince of Wurtemburg-Jackson; Count Gillensternia-Hazard; Count Piper-Thomson; Mazeppa-Reid; Czar-Burton; Prince Dolguruki-Paget; Prince Menzikoif-Jones; Iwan-Shawford; Princess Ellimira-Mrs Cross.
Cast
Role: Princess Ellimira Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Volunteers; or, The Adventures of Roderick Random and His Friend Strap

Performance Comment: Roderick-Cross; Corporal Garbage-Bridges; Slim-Storer; Strap-Paddick; Widow Vanspriggen-Mrs Bridges; Moll Trotfutter-Mrs Vaughan; Mrs Rank-Miss Ferguson; Mrs File-Mrs Shawford; Mrs Machegogan-Mrs Paddick; Madge-Miss Tyler; Janny-Vaughan.
Cast
Role: Roderick Actor: Cross

Dance: Particularly a Hornpipe-

730
15 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #80 (Cross); #68 19s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Performance Comment: Moneytrap-Yates; Brass-Woodward; Gripe-Taswell; Dick-Havard; Clarissa-Mrs Pritchard; Araminta-Mrs Mills; Corinna-Mrs Green; Mrs Amlet-Mrs James; Mrs Clogget-Mrs Cross; Flippanta-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Mrs Clogget Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor

731
20 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #80 (Cross); #95 3s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Havard; Scandal-Mills; Sir Sampson-Taswell; Tattle-Woodward; Foresight-Arthur; Jeremy-Neale; Trapland-Ray; Ben-Yates; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Cross; Nurse-Miss Pitt; Angelica-Mrs Pritchard; Mrs Frail-Mrs Elmy; Prue-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: I: Flute solo-; III: Music-the Child

Dance: V: Savoyards-Matthews, Mrs Addison

732
08 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #190 (Cross); #180 15s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: Lear-Garrick; Gloster-Berry; Edgar-Havard; Bastard-Lee; Kent-Winstone; Albany-Usher; Cornwall-Blakes; Gentleman Usher-Neale; Burgundy-Marr; Goneril-Mrs Mills; Regan-Mrs Cross; Cordelia-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

733
15 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross); #115 19s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Beard; Peachum-Yates; Lockit-Berry; Filch-Raftor; Mat@o@Mint-Blakes; Player-Bransby; Beggar-Winstone; Lucy-Mrs Clive; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Cross; Diana Trapes-Mrs Havard; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Green; Sukey Tawdry-Mrs Yates; Jenny Diver-Miss Royer; Molly Brazen-Mrs Vaughan; Polly-Mrs Cibber; In III Hornpipe-Matthews, Vaughan, Shawford, Marr, Roger; Whole to conclude with a Country Dance-the Characters of the Opera.
Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Cross

Dance: I: Savoyards, as17480920

734
28 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As written by Shakespear. With the songs, dances and other decorations. Receipts: #120 (Cross); #120 3s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Barry; Duncan-Mills; Macduff-Havard; Malcolm-Blakes; Banquo-Sowdon; Ross-Lee; Lennox-Palmer; Seyward-Winstone; Donalbain-Miss Cole; Hecate-Berry; Witches-Bridges, Neale, Yates; Young Seyward-Bransby; Fleance-Master Cross; Seyton-Ray; Angus-Simpson; Doctor-Taswell; Lady Macduff-Mrs Mills; Lady-Mrs Yates; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Fleance Actor: Master Cross

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

735
11 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts. #120 (Cross); #103 9s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Garrick; Aimwell-Havard; Sullen-Winstone; Scrub-Woodward; Gibbet-Neale; Bonniface-Berry; Foigard-James; Sir Charles-Blakes; Dorinda-Mrs Elmy; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Cross; Cherry-Mrs Green; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Cibber first time in this character.
Cast
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: V: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027

736
13 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: Lear-Garrick; Bastard-Palmer; Cordelia-Mrs Ward for first appearance; Gloster-Berry; Edgar-Havard; Kent-Winstone; Albany-Usher; Cornwall-Blakes; Gentleman Usher-Neale; Burgundy-Marr; Goneril-Mrs Bennet; Regan-Mrs Cross.
Cast
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

737
17 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As written by Shakespear. With proper Decorations. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Barry; Duncan-Mills; Macduff-Havard; Malcolm-Blakes; Banquo-Sowdon; Rosse-King; Lenox-Barnet; Seyward-Winstone; Donalbain-Master Mattocks; Hecate-Berry; Witches-Bridges, Neale, Yates; Young Seyward-Palmer; Fleance-Master Cross; Seyton-Ray; Angus-Simpson; Doctor-Taswell; Lady-Mrs Yates; Lady Macduff-Mrs Mills; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Pritchard; The Vocal Parts-Beard, Reinhold, Mrs Clive, Miss Norris.
Cast
Role: Fleance Actor: Master Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

738
18 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Garrick; Aimwell-Havard; Sullen-Winstone; Scrub-Woodward; Gibbet-Neale; Boniface-Berry; Foigard-Costollo; Sir Charles-Blakes; Dorinda-Mrs Elmy; Cherry-Mrs Green; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Cross; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Matthews, McNeil, Mrs Addison; Shawford, Pelling, Mrs Shawford, Mrs L'Font

Song: IV: Master Mattocks

739
30 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #124 4s. 6d. (George Garrick's Drury Lane MS Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Performance Comment: Ramble-Woodward; Townly-Palmer; Loveday-Blakes; Wiseacre-Yates; Doodle-Taswell; Dashwell-Neale; Roger-James; Peggy-Mrs Green; Eugenia-Mrs Mills; Engine-Mrs Cross; Jane-Mrs Havard; Aunt-Mrs James; Arbella (alias Lady No)-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Engine Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Mathews, Mrs Addison; III: The Black Joke-Mathews, Mrs Addison; with a Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

Song: II, IV: Master Mattocks

740
09 November 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece. A Grand New Dance, with Scenes, Music and Habits entirely new. No money to be return'd after the curtain is drawn up. Receipts: #100 (Cross); #133 4s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Performance Comment: Moneytrap-Yates; Brass-Woodward; Gripe-Taswell; Dick-Havard; Clarissa-Mrs Pritchard; Araminta-Mrs Mills; Corinna-Mrs Green; Mrs Amlet-Mrs James; Mrs Clogget-Mrs Cross; Flippanta-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Mrs Clogget Actor: Mrs Cross

Song: Master Mattocks

Ballet: TThe Savoyard Travellers. Principal Savoyards-Grandchamps, Mad Auretti, Matthews, Mrs Addison, Pelling, Shawford, Harrison, Master Shawford, Mad Mariet, Mrs Baker, Mrs Memi, Miss Cole; Children Savoyards-Master Jonno, Miss Popling; Peasants-Macneale, Mad DeLaContri, Master Simons, Master G. Yates, Vaughan, Mrs Shawford, Mrs L'Font, Miss Shawford

741
26 January 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser [see Woodward's mimicry of Foote, 22 Jan.]: We hear from Drury Lane that on Monday night Harry the Smuggler, who was tried and convicted last summer in the Haymarket, was found hanging in one of the cells of that prison: It seems he has long had a Design to make way with himself and at several times procured poison from Foppington, Harry Wildair, Tom Thimble, &c. but the Quantity, though it made him exceeding sick, not being sufficient to dispatch him, he at last tuck'd himself up in his own Tit for Tat. When he was cut down he look'd very ghastly, and great groanings were heard in the prison before, at, and after his committing the Fact....It is very remarkable that he had on the very coat, which, in Conjunction with one Abel Drugger, not yet taken, he stole from Sammy the Auctioneer; but from the diligent search made after Drugger, it is believed he will soon be brought to Justice. Receipts: #60 (Cross); #67 8s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Performance Comment: As17491209, but Younger Worthy-Cross. [See payment to him for this 3 Feb. Apparently a last minute substitution and unannounced in bills.]See payment to him for this 3 Feb. Apparently a last minute substitution and unannounced in bills.]
Cast
Role: Younger Worthy Actor: Cross.

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: SSwedish Gardeners, as17491219

Ballet: SSavoyard Travellers. As17500118, but Principal Savoyards-Miss Baker, Mrs _Addison

742
03 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Norris. Tickets at Stage Door. Rec'd Cash #73 11s. 6d., plus #73 6s. from tickets. Total #146 17s. 6d. Paid Blandford (Tallow Chandler) #17 18s.; Paid Mr Field for Mr Killigrew's 9 s[hares] for 100 nights #105 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: As17491023, but Heartfree-Palmer; Mademoiselle-Mrs Cross.
Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats

Cast
Role: Principal parts Actor: Mrs Clive, Woodward, Beard, Simpson, Cross, Mrs Bennet, Miss Cole, Miss Norris.

Song: Between the acts: Miss Norris

743
19 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter and Palmer. Rec'd cash #50 14s., plus #82 15s. in tickets. Paid Duke of Bedford's Steward for leases #3 13s. 6d.; Mrs Swift 1s. 6d., omitted Wednesday; Mrs Roberts #1 omitted Wednesday [Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #150 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: School boy-Shuter; Young Rakish-Cross; Friendly-Simpson; Lettice-Miss Cole; Major Rakish-Bridges; Father Dominic-Blakes; Lady Manlove-Mrs James.
Cast
Role: Young Rakish Actor: Cross

Dance: The Swedish Gardeners, as17491219

744
03 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Ray, Marr, Shawford, Gray. Receipts: #196 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17491227, but Macheath-Blakes; Lockit-Berry; Filch-Marr; Mat@o@Mint-Ray; Ben Budge-Simson; Harry Paddington-Gray; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Cross; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Bennet; Mrs Coaxer-Mrs Shawford.
Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Master Shawford, Miss Shawford; III: Minuet-Mr Shawford, Miss Shawford

745
04 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Hobson. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17500222, but Lorenzo-Cross; songs-Master Mattocks; Gratiano-Palmer; Gobbo-_; Tubal-_.
Cast
Role: Lorenzo Actor: Cross

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Song: I: The Reasonable Lover (by Desire)-Master Mattocks

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Mathews; III: Swedish Gardeners, as17491219; V: Black Joke, as17500420

746
13 September 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Performance Comment: Sir Novelty-Woodward; Loveless-Havard; Sir William-James; Elder Worthy-Bridges; Young Worthy-Cross; Snap-Yates; Sly-Shuter; Lawyer-Vaughan; Amanda-Mrs Ward; Hillaria-Mrs Mills; Flareit-Mrs Green; Narcissa-Mrs Clive; Occasional Prologue- (by desire) and for the last time.
Cast
Role: Young Worthy Actor: Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

747
21 September 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Garrick's New Occasional Prologue publish'd this day in the papers, ending with "Sacred to Shakespeare was this spot designed,@ To pierce the Heart and humanize the mind. But if an empty house...&c." Receipts: #15O (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Garrick; Aimwell-Havard; Sullen-Winstone; Scrub-Woodward; Bonniface-Berry; Gibbet-Shuter; Foigard-James; Sir Charles-Blakes; Dorinda-Mrs Mills; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Cross; Cherry-Mrs Green; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: IV: By desire a Hornpipe-Mathews

748
22 October 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #40 (Cross). [The Epilogue Occasioned by the Two Occasional Prologues published in the General Advertiser. Fifty-one lines ending: @"No more shall either rack his brains to teaze ye@But let the Contest be who most shall please ye." [In the form of a story, mocking Garrick and Berry]: "Once on a time two boys were throwing dirt@A gentle youth was one, and one was somewhat pert.@Each to his Master with his tale retreated,@Who gravely heard their different parts repeated,@How Tom was rude, and Jack poor lad ill treated."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Performance Comment: Lady Brumpton-Mrs Pritchard; Hardy-Sowdon; Lord Brumpton-Winstone; Campley-Woodward; Trusty-Berry; Trim-Yates; Sable-Shuter; Cabinet-Simson; Puzzle-Bridges; Kate Matchlock-W. Vaughan; Tom-Vaughan; Tatter-Paddick; Swagger-Costollo; Tattleaid-Mrs James; Mademoiselle-Mrs Cross; Fardingale-Mrs Green; Lady Sharlot-Mrs Ward; Lady Harriet-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Cross
Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: III: New Running Footmen's Dance, as17501020; IV: Hornpipe-Mathews, the Little Swiss

749
29 October 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [M+Midwife, No II (at about this date) includes a Letter from Mary Midnight to David Garrick, Esq praising him as actor and even as manager, but asking why he neglects Fletcher's plays: "What is the reason that the public patience is so largely try'd, and the human understanding so shamefully insulted as it is, by a perpetual repetition of the Duke and No Duke, the Anatomist, and twenty things of like nature?" Concludes by remarking that the London Cuckolds is a scandal to virtue.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Performance Comment: Arabella-Mrs Ward; Doodle-James; Dashwel-Shuter; Ramble-Woodward; Townly-Palmer; Loveday-Blakes; Wiseacre-Yates; Peggy-Mrs Green; Eugenia-Mrs Mills; Engine-Mrs Cross; Jane-Mrs Havard; Aunt-Mrs James.
Cast
Role: Engine Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Mathews, the Little Swiss; III: Running Footman's Dance, as17501020 Play to conclude with a dance call'd The City Revels-the characters of the play

750
01 November 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tomorrow (not acted this season) The Busy Body, with Entertainments of Dancing by M Devisse, being the 1st time of his appearing in England, and Mad Auretti. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: Lear-Garrick; Gloucester-Berry; Edgar-Havard; Bastard-Palmer; Kent-Winstone; Albany-Mozeen; Cornwall-Blakes; Usher-Shuter; Burgandy-Marr; Goneril-Mrs Bennet; Regan-Mrs Cross; Cordelia-Miss Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd