14 April 1758
Event Information
Theatre:
Drury Lane Theatre
Theatrical Season:
1757-1758
Volume:
4
Comments:
Benefit for Miss Pritchard. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. This day publish'd, Price 1s. Brief Remarks on the Original and Present State of the Drama. To which is added Hecate's Prophecy, being a characteristic Dialogue between future Mangers and their Dependents. [William Shirley? A most virulent attack on Garrick's management as well as Rich's Quotes from the Herald No. XX, a denunciatory article on the managers, deplores the pamphleteering attempt to praise Garrick, asks "Shall he shine the God of our Idolatry, merely for excluding every other emulous and aspiring candidate?"] Receipts: #170 (Cross)
Performance List
Mainpiece
Title:
The Roman Father
Comments:
As17580128.
As17580128.
Afterpiece
Dance
Comment:
II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004; End: By Desire, a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard