Event Comment: By
His Majesty's Company. At the Theatre Royal in the
Haymarket [repeated in all bills] will be performed, by particular Desire, a Comedy...Places to be taken of
Mr Jewel, at the Theatre. 7 p.m. [Repeated in the bills.] The house has been altered, as there was formerly but one gallery. [
Miss Ogilvie was the young gentlewoman.] Went at 5:30 (before ye doors were open) to
Foote's new Theatre in ye Haymarket which was open for ye first time tonight, and is very neatly fitted up. Got a good place in ye Pit...a very humorous
Prologue in Prose by
J. Palmer as
Snarl a writer of Political Letters for the newspapers.
Weston as
Laconic a newspaper poet--Foote as
Manager and
Scaffold ye Builder (ye real one of ye house as some said)...in
Smirk (Foote) took off
Langford to a hair, not forgetting his son's affair with
Dr Chauncey.
Shift and ye
Epilogue as
Dr Squintum by
Bannister, who took off
Holland,
Dodd,
Moody, and
Champneys surprisingly well...The house pretty full.
York there awhile (
Neville MS Diary)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Minor
Performance Comment: Mrs Cole, Smirk-Foote; The Minor-Davis; Shift (with Imitations), Squintum-Bannister; Sir William Wealthy-Castle; Transfer-Weston; Loader-Palmer; Sir Richard Wealthy-Gardner; Dick-Quick; Tally-Pynn; Lucy-a young Gentlewoman, first appearance on any stage; Occasional Prologue in Prose-Laconic-J. Palmer; Scaffold the Builder-Bannister; Snarl-Weston; Manager-Foote-London Magazine.Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens