Event Comment: MMr Woodward has enter'd into partnership with
Mr Barry in a new Theater in
Ireland & has taken from us
Mr Walker and Wife (
Miss Minors that was)
Mr Vernon,
Mr Jefferson and Wife-from
Mr Rich,
Mr Arthur,
Mr White,
Mr Chambers,
Mr Finny (his Scene-man) & others (
Cross). Receipts: #120 (Cross); #128 15s. (
Winston MS 8). Places for Boxes to be had of
Mr Varney at the stage door. No admittance behind scenes, nor any money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [This notice regularly occurs at foot of bill
and will not be noted further this season. The box receipts recorded from Winston MS 8 seem to have been taken by him from the
Huntington Library playbills (second set) annotated by
J. P. Kemble from a Treasurer's Book.]
Letter to Mr G@k on Opening of the Theatre, With Observations on Managers, Actors, Authors, and their Audiences and Particularly New Performers. 6d. Published by
Cooke opposite
Drury Lane Theatre. [It is a plea for more frequent appearances of
Garrick, especially in lighter parts, now that
Woodward has left; for especially good plays on Saturday nights; for striking from the repertoire all immoral, immodest
and cruel plays; for being a sport about competition with
Rich; for better regulation of the boxes, on a first-come, first-pay basis; for training up the most promising young actors gradually
and not casting them in parts beyond their reaches; for more new plays;
and for an advisory council in selecting them; for o
mission of personal satirical attacks in comedy.
Performances
Mainpiece Title: As You Like It
Performance Comment: Touchstone-Yates; Orlando-Palmer; Jacques-Berry; Duke Sr-Blakes; Frederick-Bransby; Oliver-Burton; Amiens (with proper Songs)-Beard; Adam-Havard; Corin-Taswell; Silvius-Austin; Celia-Mrs Clive; Phebe-Miss Hippisley; Audrey-Mrs Bradshaw; Rosalind-Miss Macklin.Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist
Performance Comment: Le Medecin-Blakes; Crispin-Yates; Beatrice-Mrs Bennet.Dance: I: A comic Dance call'd The German Hunters-Master Settree, Miss Twist