Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by
James Cobb. Text:
T. N. Longman and
O. Rees, 1800.
Miss Waters is identified in the Songs]: The Scenes, Music, Machinery, Dresses, and Decorations are all entirely new. The Music composed by
Mazzinghi and
Reeve. The Scenery painted by
Richards,
Phillips,
Lupino,
Hollogan,
Backmore, &c. [based on drawings of
Indian scenery by
Thomas Daniell]. The Machinery and Decorations by
Cresswell,
Sloper,
Goostree, &c. The Dresses by
Dick and
Mrs Egan. Books of the Songs, also describing the Scenes and Spectacle of the Return from the
Tiger Hunt, to be had at the Theatre, price six pence. "The whole [forms] an exhibition of the utmost grandeur...The expense attending the decoration must have been immense...The dailogue is certainly not of the first description of writing, but it forms, on the whole, a very safe vehicle for some of the best music the English stage has for some time been able to boast"(
Morning Herald, 13 Nov.). Account-Book, 27 Dec.: Paid
Cuthbert for Wheels, &c. for the
Elephants #13 18s. Receipts: #364 7s. 6d. (363.19.6; 0.8.0)