The Careless Husband (1704)

Author
Colley Cibber
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
£14,031 3s 5d £5,935 1s 11d (42.3%) £8,096 1s 6d (57.7%)
1732 - 1809
£14,031 3s 5d - (100%) £5,935 1s 11d (42.3%) £8,096 1s 6d (57.7%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
154 59 95
1732 - 1809
154 59 95
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
16 May 1740 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, The Tragedy of Tragedies, Two Pierots, L'Allemande, Punch No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 Nov 1740 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, The Devil to Pay, L'Allamande, Shepherds and Shepherdesses No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Dec 1740 Covent Garden The Careless Husband, Nancy, Comic Ballet, Miller and his Wife, The Yorkshire Maggot No No Yes £61 17s N/A N/A
18 Apr 1741 Covent Garden The Careless Husband, The Sham Conjurer No No Yes £109 4s 6d N/A N/A
20 Mar 1742 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, The Mock Doctor, Sweet Bird, Concerto, The Italian Peasants, War He Sung was Toil and Trouble, Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond No No Yes £150 N/A N/A
22 Apr 1742 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, The Devil to Pay, Let Me Wander Not Unseen, Dutch Dance, Bumper Squire Jones, The Swiss No No Yes £120 N/A N/A
01 May 1742 Covent Garden The Careless Husband, The Honest Yorkshireman, Les Savoyardes, Minuet, Rigadone Provencale, The Peasants No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 Nov 1742 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, Concerto on violoncello, Grand Comic Dance, Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie No No No £53 1s N/A N/A
04 May 1743 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, The Lying Valet, French Peasant, Stella and Flavia, Bumper Squire Jones, La Florana, New Serious Dance No No Yes £9 13s N/A N/A
11 May 1744 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, The Lying Valet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Jan 1745 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, The Devil to Pay, Serious Dance, New Shepherd's Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Feb 1745 Covent Garden The Careless Husband, Orpheus and Eurydice Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Feb 1745 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, The Dragon of Wantley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Feb 1745 Covent Garden The Careless Husband, Orpheus and Eurydice Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 May 1745 Covent Garden The Careless Husband, Flora, Comic Dance, And We Are Gayly Yet, Scotch Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1745 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, Rosamond, Gentle Shepherd No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 Oct 1745 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, Tragedy of Tragedies or The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, Grand Dance No No No £74 19s 100% N/A
12 Nov 1745 Covent Garden The Careless Husband, The Mock Doctor, The Peasants, Les Allemandes Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Dec 1745 Covent Garden The Careless Husband, The Rape of Proserpine Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Feb 1746 Covent Garden The Careless Husband, Orpheus and Eurydice Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Mar 1746 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, The Devil to Pay, My Faith and Truth No No Yes £49 5s N/A N/A
02 Apr 1746 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, Harlequin Incendiary No No No £49 8s N/A N/A
09 Apr 1746 Covent Garden The Careless Husband, Phebe, The Italian Peasants, Song of Diana, Dance in Momus, Drunken Tyrolese, Pigmalion Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 Aug 1746 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, Conspiracy Discover'd No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Oct 1746 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, The Devil to Pay No No No £59 100% N/A
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