Event Comment: The Rose is a New
Musical perfor
mance of Two Acts by
Dr Arne a very dull insipid piece.
Mr G. protested against its being perfor
m'd its being perfor
m'd it was hiss'd fro
m the beginning & wd not Suffer it to be given out again, therefore
Mr King went on & told the
m it Should not be perfor
m'd again until it be alter'd (
Hopkins Diary). [
Macmillan's note fro
m Kemble differs slightly. See critical da
mnation of The Rose in British Theatre Article in
The London Magazine, Dec. 1772.] Book of the Entertain
ment to be had at the Theatre (playbill). Paid
Mr Petit for
men's cloaths, #8 8s. CTreasurer's Book). [Reviewer for
Town and Country Magazine (
Theatre, No. XLI) disappointed with the Rose: "We are told that this precious piece of stuff is the production of an
Oxford student; it
may be so, of this every auditor is certain, that the collegian who penned it was so entirely lost in the pursuit of so
me abstruse study, that he has totally forgot gra
mmar, co
mmon sense, and even his
mother tongue...it was unani
mously da
mn'd."] Receipts: #172 6s. (Treasurer's Book)