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 %
13 Nov 1742 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor No Yes No £114 18s N/A N/A
03 Dec 1742 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, Grand Comic Dance, Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie No No No £52 1s N/A N/A
09 Dec 1742 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Dutch Skipper, Characters of Dancing, Grand Ballet, Musette No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Apr 1743 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Virgin Unmasked, Concerto, Neopolitan Punch, Distracted I Turn, New concerto on German flute No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 Apr 1743 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Devil To Pay, Grand Serious Ballet, Concerto, Sicilian Peasant No No Yes £25 2s 6d N/A N/A
02 May 1743 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The King and Miller of Mansfield, Dutch Skipper, Le Rendezvous Gallant, Les Boufons du Cour No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
09 May 1743 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Virgin Unmasked, Tyrolean Dance, New Serious Ballet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Nov 1743 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Dec 1743 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Anatomist, Italian Masquerade No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Dec 1743 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Jan 1744 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, Columbine Courtezan No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Mar 1744 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Damon and Phillida, To Arms, Scotch Dance, Ballet, Britons Strike Home No Yes Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Apr 1744 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Lying Valet, New Comic Dance, New Serious Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Apr 1744 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Royal Chace, My Faith and Truth, Scotch Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 Nov 1744 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Jan 1745 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Apr 1745 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, King Pepin's Campaign No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 May 1745 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Damon and Phillida No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Sep 1745 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, Colin And Phebe No No No £57 19s 100% N/A
12 Dec 1745 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Jan 1746 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Stage Coach No No Yes £27 17s 6d N/A N/A
26 Nov 1746 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £96 7s 49% N/A
02 Mar 1747 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Royal Chace No No No £79 5s 61% N/A
15 Dec 1747 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Tea No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Feb 1748 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 May 1748 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Miss in Her Teens No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 Sep 1748 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Mock Doctor No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Nov 1748 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Oct 1749 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The King and Miller of Mansfield No No No £80 4s 100% N/A
29 Nov 1749 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Perseus and Andromeda No No No £77 14s 54% N/A
19 Nov 1750 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Dec 1752 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Harlequin Dr Faustus, Les Charboniers, Les Sabotiers Tyrolese No No No Unknown N/A N/A
31 Jan 1753 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Harlequin Sorcerer, Les Charboniers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Oct 1753 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Oct 1753 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Englishman in Paris No No No £190 N/A N/A
27 Oct 1753 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Englishman in Paris No No No £170 N/A N/A
30 Oct 1753 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Englishman in Paris No No No £170 N/A N/A
02 Nov 1753 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Englishman in Paris No No No £130 N/A N/A
12 Nov 1753 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Englishman in Paris No No No £140 N/A N/A
30 Nov 1753 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Englishman in Paris No No No £120 N/A N/A
15 Dec 1753 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Englishman in Paris No No No £100 N/A N/A
29 Jan 1754 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Englishman in Paris Yes No No £60 N/A N/A
22 Feb 1754 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Knights No No Yes £170 N/A N/A
14 Oct 1754 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Knights No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Nov 1754 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Englishman in Paris No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 May 1755 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Cheats of Scapin, Rule Britannia, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
09 Feb 1756 Covent Garden Old Batchelor, The Englishman Returnd from Paris No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Oct 1756 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Englishman in Paris No No No £60 N/A N/A
27 Oct 1758 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Diversions of the Morning No No No £139 10s 75% N/A
29 Apr 1760 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Harlequin Statue, A Day of Taste No No Yes £227 13s 6d N/A N/A
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