Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; MD 5, by
Thomas Morton. Prologue by
William Thomas Fitzgerald. Epilogue by
Miles Peter Andrews (see text)]: The Scenes, principally new, designed
and painted by
Richards,
Hodgins,
Pugh,
Walmsley,
and assistants. With entire new Dresses
and De
corations. "The management of the earthquake in which the Temple of the Sun is destroyed was a very fine piece of stage mechanism; the effect of which was
considerably heightened by the improved performance of the Bold Thunder,
and that also of his Electrical Harbinger. The gradations
and cadences of the first were superior to anything of the kind we remember within the walls of the theatre...The scene of the rising sun was un
commonly dingy" (
Public Advertiser, 3 Dec.). "
Mr Morton in full for
Columbus #214 10s. 6d." [MS annotation on
BM playbill, 26 Dec. 1792 (
cg, Vol. VIII)].
Morning Herald, 14 Dec. 1792: This day at noon will be published
Columbus (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #301 8s
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Columbus; Or, A World Discovered
Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp