Event Comment: Ladies send servants by 5 to keep Places and prevent Confusion. Doors will be opened at half after five o'clock. To begin at half after 6 o'clock (playbill). Mr G. Voice and Spirits was never finer he never wanted Spirit or Voice thro'
the whole part and Convinced
the Audience that those Amazing powers he has always possess'd are now as brilliant as ever. Never was a part play'd with greater Propriety nor an Audience more lavish of
their Applause (
Hopkins Diary). [
MacMillan's note from
Kemble differs slightly.] [A full column letter for
the Morning Chronicle t
his date from
Theatricus to Garrick protested
the fact that
his announced benefit for
the Theatrical Fund on
the 30th of May would be all sold out to
the highest bidders for tickets; that a nobleman offering ten Guineas for four box seats would get
them in preference to
the tradesmen who offered only a pound,
the stated price of
the tickets. Since charity was
the cause t
his writer suggested that Garrick give a second benefit night to
the Fund, with
the hopes (1) that
the Fund would be
thereby vastly increased, and (2) that opportunity might be given for twice as many People to see a Garrick final performance. It was, perhaps, in response to t
his public request that Garrick gave a second Benefit night for
the Fund on 10 June.
The Morning Post, 29 May, noted: "
The concourse of servants assembled yesterday morning at seven o'clock, at
Drury Lane Stage Door, to take places for
the approaching benefit, in which it is said
Mr Garrick will again play
Richard III , was astonishing, amounting to many hundreds, three fourths of which were not able to Succeed in
their embassies' (
Hampden, Journal).] Receipts: #307 3s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)