Event Comment: The Rose is a New Musical performance of Two Acts by
Dr Arne a very dull insipid piece.
Mr G. protested against its being perform'd its being perform'd it was hiss'd from the beginning & wd not Suffer it to be given out again, therefore
Mr King went on & told them it Should not be perform'd again until it be alter'd (
Hopkins Diary). [
Macmillan's note from
Kemble differs slightly. See critical damnation of The Rose in British Theatre Article in
The London Magazine, Dec. 1772.] Book of the Entertainment 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 some abstruse study, that he has totally forgot grammar, common sense, and even his mother tongue...it was unanimously damn'd."] Receipts: #172 6s. (Treasurer's Book)