The School Boy; or, The Comical Rivals (1702)

Author
Colley Cibber
Work Type
Afterpiece
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
£3,487 4s £1,937 8s (55.6%) £1,549 16s (44.4%)
1732 - 1809
£3,487 4s - (100%) £1,937 8s (55.6%) £1,549 16s (44.4%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
92 68 24
1732 - 1809
92 68 24
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
05 Jun 1745 Drury Lane The Provoked Husband, The School Boy Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
02 Nov 1745 Covent Garden The Massacre Of Paris, The Schoolboy No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Nov 1745 Covent Garden The Funeral, The Schoolboy, The Peasants, Les Allemandes No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 May 1746 Covent Garden The Rehearsal, The Schoolboy, Les Allemandes, The Peasants No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Oct 1746 Covent Garden The Relapse Or Virtue In Danger, The School Boy No No No £45 2s 100% N/A
30 Mar 1747 Drury Lane Marry Or Do Worse Or No Wit Like A Woman's, The School Boy No No Yes £170 N/A N/A
14 Apr 1748 Drury Lane The Constant Couple, The School Boy, Tambourine, Dutch Dance, Hornpipe, Savoyards Yes No Yes £150 N/A N/A
08 Oct 1748 Drury Lane King Lear, The School Boy No No No £180 15s 100% N/A
26 Oct 1748 Drury Lane King Lear, The School Boy No No No £150 7s 6d 100% N/A
03 Nov 1748 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The School Boy, Scots Sonato, L'Entree de Flore, Vertumnus and Pomona, The Savoyards No No No £49 12s N/A N/A
06 Dec 1748 Drury Lane Romeo And Juliet, School Boy No No No £127 4s N/A N/A
20 Dec 1748 Drury Lane Romeo And Juliet, The School Boy No No No £130 9s 6d N/A N/A
19 Apr 1750 Drury Lane Hamlet, The School Boy, The Swedish Gardeners No No Yes £133 9s 53% N/A
15 Oct 1754 Covent Garden The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him, The Schoolboy No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Oct 1754 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Schoolboy No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Oct 1754 Covent Garden The Non Juror, The Schoolboy No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Nov 1754 Covent Garden Tamerlane, The Schoolboy No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Nov 1754 Covent Garden Venice Preserved Or A Plot Discovered, The Schoolboy Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Dec 1754 Covent Garden The Rehearsal, The Schoolboy, Comic Entertainment No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Apr 1755 Covent Garden King Richard III, The Schoolboy Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 Apr 1755 Covent Garden The Fatal Marriage Or Innocent Adultery, The Schoolboy, New Comic Dance, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
09 May 1755 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Schoolboy, Italian Peasants No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Oct 1755 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery, The School Boy No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Dec 1755 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The School Boy, Les Peasants Gallant, Fingalian Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
12 Feb 1756 Covent Garden The Rival Queens, The School Boy, Fingalian No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Mar 1756 Covent Garden King Lear, The School Boy, Les Statues Animees No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Nov 1756 Covent Garden The Fatal Marriage Or The Innocent Adultery, The School Boy No No No Unknown N/A N/A
31 Mar 1757 Covent Garden The Mourning Bride, The School Boy No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 May 1757 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The School Boy, Country Lass, Dutch Peasant, Dutch Sailor No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Feb 1758 Covent Garden Othello, The School Boy, Sicilian Peasants No No No £139 7s 6d 41% N/A
04 May 1758 Covent Garden The Siege Of Damascus, The School Boy, Tambourine, Dutch Dance, The Roast Beef of Old England Yes No Yes £168 N/A N/A
09 Dec 1758 Covent Garden Cleone, The School Boy, The Feast of Bacchus No No No £105 16s 36% N/A
16 Dec 1758 Covent Garden Cleone, The School Boy, The Fingalian Dance No No No £94 1s 32% N/A
02 Jan 1759 Covent Garden Hamlet, The School Boy, The Feast of Bacchus No No No £77 5s 29% N/A
26 Feb 1759 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, The School Boy, The Threshers No No No £165 11s 46% N/A
22 Oct 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The School Boy, Country Dance, Hornpipe, The Dutch Skipper, The Irish Turf-Cutters No No No £161 12s 45% N/A
29 Oct 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The School Boy, Country Dance, Hornpipe, The Dutch Skipper, The Threshers No No No £165 2s 62% N/A
14 Nov 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The School Boy, Country Dance, Hornpipe, New Comic Dance No No No £132 18s 49% N/A
11 May 1761 Covent Garden Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave, The School Boy, Hornpipe, The Provincial Sailors No No Yes £173 7s N/A N/A
26 Mar 1763 Drury Lane Venice Preserved, The School Boy, The Camp Alarm'd No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 Mar 1774 Drury Lane The Brothers, The School Boy, Bucks Have at ye All No No Yes £166 16s 43% N/A
30 Mar 1785 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The School Boy, The Soldier Tired of War's Alarms No No Yes £291 3s N/A N/A
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