Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; CO I, by
Charles Dibdin, based on
Rose et Colas, by
Michel Jean Sedaine]. 3rd piece [1st time; CO I, by Charles Dibdin, based on
Les Femmes Vengees, by
Michel Jean Sedaine]: With new Scenery [
Public Advertiser, 19 Sept.: by
Richards] and Decorations. Both the Musical Pieces, with new Overtures, composed by Dibdin. Books of the new Musical Pieces to be had at the Theatre. Places for the Boxes to be taken of
Brandon (only) at the Stage Door. No Money to be taken at the Stage Door, nor any Money to be returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 21 Sept.].
Public Advertiser, 18 Sept.: This Afternoon at Three will be published
Rose and Colin and
The Wives Revenged (each 6d.). "At this season of the year the little company upon the Ton, who are in town, seldom rise from the table till after the beginning of the play; in order, therefore, to obviate the disturbance that the fracas in the boxes usually makes towards the close of the first act, or the beginning of the second, this comic
opera [Rose and Colin] was prefaced. It at the same time affords these late comers an opportunity of seeing the play [i.e. the mainpiece] complete" (
Town and Country Magazine, Sept. 1778, p.453)