The Old Bachelor (1693)

Author
William Congreve
Composer
Henry Purcell
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Comedy
Performance Medium
Spoken Drama
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
£6,032 17s 6d £1,721 6d (28.5%) £4,311 17s (71.5%)
1732 - 1809
£6,032 17s 6d - (100%) £1,721 6d (28.5%) £4,311 17s (71.5%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
119 55 64
1732 - 1809
119 55 64
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
17 Oct 1738 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, Colombine Courtezan No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Nov 1738 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Jan 1739 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The What Dye Call It Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
12 May 1739 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Virgin Unmasked, Comic Dance, French Peasants, Tambourine No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 Sep 1739 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Mock Doctor, Ballet, Grecian Sailors, Tambourine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Oct 1739 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, Harlequin Shipwreckd, To Arms, Scotch Dance, Britons Strike Home No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Nov 1739 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Fall of Phaeton, To Arms, Britons Strike Home No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Feb 1740 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, Robin Goodfellow, La Matelote, Voyage to Cytherea, Le Tambourine, Scots Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Mar 1740 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, Rosamond, Drunken Peasant, L'Allamande Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Sep 1740 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Nov 1740 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, Harlequin Shipwreckd, Comic Ballet, Grand Ballet No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Jan 1741 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor No No Yes £234 N/A N/A
13 Jan 1741 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor No Yes No £171 3s 6d N/A N/A
14 Jan 1741 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor No No No £118 8s N/A N/A
19 Jan 1741 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Orpheus and Eurydice Yes No No £105 5s N/A N/A
10 Mar 1741 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Tragedy of Tragedies or The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, Italian Peasants, Water Music, Wooden Shoe Dance No No Yes £203 14s N/A N/A
11 Apr 1741 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, French Peasant, The Swiss Yes No Yes £124 11s N/A N/A
15 Apr 1741 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Orpheus and Eurydice, Tambourine, Louvre, Minuet Yes No No £38 11s N/A N/A
25 Sep 1741 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Mock Doctor No No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Nov 1741 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Damon and Phillida, Le Matelot, Water Music No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 Jan 1742 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Peasants, Minuet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Mar 1742 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Devil to Pay, Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond, New Serious Dance, Dutch Dance, Le Boufon No No Yes £150 N/A N/A
06 Oct 1742 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Old Man Taught Wisdom, The Happy Lovers, La Villageoise No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Nov 1742 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, Miss Lucy in Town, Les Matelotes, The Early Horn, Turkish Seraglio No No No £93 17s N/A N/A
12 Nov 1742 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Dutch Skipper, Characters of Dancing, Grand Ballet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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