Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No Admittance behind Scenes. No Money to be returned after Curtain is drawn up. Places to be had of
Mr Johnston at
the Stage Door. To Begin precisely at half an hour after Six. [Customary information at foot of each bill, will not be fur
ther noted.] [Announcement of improvements in
the physical plant appeared in
the newspapers in August 1762. Aug. 2. "A great number of workmen are now employed in getting ready
Drury Lane Theatre for
the ensuing season.
The stage has been greatly leng
thened, and
the Pit and Boxes considerably enlarged, having taken in one of
the lobbies for that purpose;
the two galleries are also entirely rebuilt, and rendered much larger and more commodious, and
the slips on each side are formed into green boxes. It is computed from
the several alterations made that
the house will contain #90 more than heretofore." Aug. 11: "We hear that
the greatest improvements are making in Drury Lane
Theatre against
the ensuing season ever known, particularly a fine artificial cascade which will be exhibited in an entertainment
the grandest and most beautiful ever seen in this or in any Kingdom."-
Theatrical Miscellanies,
Boston Public Library,
Cuttings, G 60.23.
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband
Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid
Dance: End: Hornpipe-Vincent