Event Comment: "My father [
George Colman elder] told me that, on the seventh of
June, on which day and night desolation had attained its climax [because of the
Gordon riots], and
London is said to have been seen from one spot blazing in thirty-six different parts, the receipt of his playhouse exceeded twenty pounds. This sum appears somewhat of the smallest for the night's receipt of a
Theatre Royal in London; but how, instead of twenty pounds-worth of spectators, twenty persons, or one person, could have calmly paid money to witness, in the midst of this general dismay, a theatrical entertainment, is astonishing' (
Peake, II, 47)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress
Afterpiece Title: Douglas
Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens