The Jovial Crew; or, The Merry Beggars (1731)

Author
Edward Roome
Author
William Yonge
Author
William Concanen
Author
Richard Brome
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Comedy
Performance Medium
Musical
Associated work receipts The physical apparatus employed on and around the stage to support, enhance and sometimes substitute the performers' enactment of drama.
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
£13,169 8s 6d £13,118 13s 6d (99.6%) £50 15s (0.4%)
1732 - 1809
£13,169 8s 6d - (100%) £13,118 13s 6d (99.6%) £50 15s (0.4%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
112 108 4
1732 - 1809
112 108 4
Notes
Based on Richard Brome's play A Jovial Crew; or, The Merry Beggars (1641-42). Authorship suggested by the Biographia Dramatica.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
04 Feb 1762 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Apollo and Daphne Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Mar 1762 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Merry Counterfeit or Viscount a la Mode, The French Country Gentleman, A Dish of All Sorts Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 Apr 1762 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Counterfeit Heiress or The Boarding School, The Taylors, Hippisley's Drunken Man No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 May 1762 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Jealous Farmer Deceiv'd, Hornpipe Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
29 Sep 1762 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew Or The Merry Beggars, The Old Maid No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Oct 1762 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Englishman in Paris, The Pedlar Tricked No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Nov 1762 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Jan 1763 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Apr 1763 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Apprentice No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 Apr 1763 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Comic Dance, Catherine and Petruchio No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 May 1763 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Knights, Hornpipe Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 Oct 1763 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew Or The Merry Beggars, The Citizen Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Nov 1763 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Upholsterer, The Knife Grinders, The Sicilian Peasants No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Dec 1763 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Citizen No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Apr 1764 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Upholsterer, Venus Revenged No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Apr 1764 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Harlequin Sorcerer, The Sicilian Peasants No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
19 May 1764 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Perseus and Andromeda Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Oct 1764 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew Or The Merry Beggars, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Apr 1765 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Citizen, Tambourine, Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 Apr 1765 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Citizen, Wooden Shoe Dance, Hornpipe, Medley Hornpipe, Rural Love No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 Nov 1765 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew Or The Merry Beggars, The Upholsterer, Rural Love No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Apr 1766 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Citizen, Rural Love No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
09 May 1766 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Citizen, The Village Romps, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
29 Jan 1767 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew Or The Merry Beggars, Perseus and Andromeda No Yes No £241 3s 54% N/A
03 Mar 1767 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £210 6s N/A N/A
02 May 1767 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Miss in Her Teens, The Female Archer, The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe No No Yes £187 6s 6d N/A N/A
09 May 1770 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, A Duke and no Duke, The Old Ground Young, Allemande No No Yes £204 8s N/A N/A
25 May 1770 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Citizen, Minuet, The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe No No Yes £191 1s 100% N/A
13 Dec 1770 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Harlequin Skeleton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Jan 1771 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Mother Shipton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Feb 1771 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Mother Shipton Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Mar 1771 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Mother Shipton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Nov 1774 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, No Ones Enemy but His Own, The Provencale, The Reel No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Nov 1774 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Citizen, The Reel Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Nov 1774 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Cross Purposes, The Merry Sailors No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Dec 1774 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Druids No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Feb 1775 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Druids No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Oct 1776 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Three Weeks after Marriage, Crutch Dance, The Pilgrim No No No £217 18s 64% N/A
11 Jan 1777 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Harlequin's Frolicks, Rural Dance No No No £192 14s 6d 53% N/A
08 Feb 1777 Covent Garden Sir Thomas Overbury, The Jovial Crew No No No £233 5s 68% N/A
13 Feb 1777 Covent Garden The Tempest, The Jovial Crew No No No £167 6s 45% N/A
17 Feb 1777 Covent Garden Sir Thomas Overbury, The Jovial Crew, The Shepherd's Wedding No No No £229 19s 6d 56% N/A
27 Feb 1777 Covent Garden Sir Thomas Overbury, The Jovial Crew, The Shepherd's Wedding No No No £228 3s 6d 51% N/A
03 Mar 1777 Covent Garden Douglas, The Jovial Crew, Hunting Dance No No No £270 17s 6d 61% N/A
10 Mar 1777 Covent Garden Artaxerxes, The Jovial Crew, Pastoral Dance, Push About the Jorum No No Yes £302 3s 57% N/A
13 Mar 1777 Covent Garden Know Your Own Mind, The Jovial Crew, Hunting Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
29 Mar 1780 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Comus, The Original Crutch Dance, Ellen A Roon, Push About the Jorum No No Yes £290 4s 6d 67% N/A
04 Apr 1780 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Jovial Crew No No No £227 17s 6d 66% N/A
06 Apr 1780 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Jovial Crew No No No £207 7s 6d 68% N/A
08 Apr 1780 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Jovial Crew No No No £204 13s 6d 70% N/A
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