Event Comment: Benefit for
Barry. Pit and Boxes laid together, and Stage, for better accommodation of the Ladies, will be form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Tickets to be had of Barry at the corner of
Bow St., and of
Hobson at the Stage Door. [This month was printd
The Town, a Satire by
Wm. Kenrick, with especial attack upon
Garrick and Garrick's plays. In
Miss in her Teens, he boasts the strange pretense, To satire Coxcombs, while he murders sense." Kenrick is one of the few who criticizes Garrick (p. 21) for playing a low character
Abel Drugger, rather than a king. He yields indirect praise to
Janeton Auretti by blaming the town for cheering her dance, while neglecting the players: @Yet if Janeton shakes her slender feet@How loud the thunder clatters through the Pit.@
Prologue intended to have been spoken on the Revival of
The Distress'd Mother, for the Benefit of
Mr Barry, but omitted through some misunderstanding. Written by
Mr Rolt, printed in
Gentleman's Magazine, March 1748, p. 134.] Receipts: #270 (
Cross); house charges, #60 (
Powel); cash, #80 3s. 6d.; tickets, #118 5s. (
Clay MS)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother
Performance Comment: Orestes-Barry for first time; Pyrrhus-Delane; Hermione-Mrs Pritchard; Andromache, with the original Epilogue-Mrs Cibber; Pylades-Havard; Phoenix-Winstone; Cleone-Mrs Ridout; Cephisa-Miss Minors.Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens
Dance: Cooke, Anne Auretti