Flora; or, Hob in the Well (1760)

Author
John Hippisley
Author
Thomas Doggett
Author
William Bates
Composer
William Bates
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
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
£10,765 4s 9d £7,796 9s 9d (72.4%) £2,968 15s (27.6%)
1732 - 1809
£10,765 4s 9d - (100%) £7,796 9s 9d (72.4%) £2,968 15s (27.6%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
149 112 37
1732 - 1809
149 112 37
Notes
Adapted from Thomas Doggett's The Country Wake (1711) and John Hippisley's Flora; or, Hob's Opera (1729).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
15 Nov 1755 Covent Garden The Funeral, Flora No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1757 Covent Garden The Twin Rivals, Flora or Hob in the Well, The Lamplighters, Mock Italian and English Cantata No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 May 1757 Covent Garden The Way Of The World, Flora No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 May 1757 Covent Garden The Funeral, Flora No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Nov 1758 Covent Garden Love For Love, Flora or Hob in the Well, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £71 1s N/A N/A
18 Mar 1760 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Country Wake or Hob in the Well, Comic Dance, The Lamp Lighters Yes No Yes £269 6s 6d N/A N/A
09 Apr 1760 Covent Garden King Henry IV Part I, Flora, Fingalian Dance, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £158 4s 6d N/A N/A
24 Apr 1760 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, Flora or Hob in the Well, Comic Dance, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £193 13s N/A N/A
30 Apr 1760 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Flora, Hornpipe, The Lamp Lighters Yes No Yes £143 16s N/A N/A
07 May 1760 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Flora, The Drunken Peasant, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £205 4s N/A N/A
15 May 1760 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Flora, Comic Dance, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £226 6s 9d N/A N/A
29 Sep 1760 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Flora or Hob in the Well No No No £206 4s 6d 100% N/A
20 Nov 1760 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Flora No No No £113 N/A N/A
28 Apr 1761 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Flora, The Waggoners No No Yes £145 N/A N/A
05 May 1761 Covent Garden King Richard III, Flora, Comic Dance No No Yes £234 18s 6d N/A N/A
13 May 1761 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, Flora, New Comic Dance No No Yes £232 19s N/A N/A
11 Apr 1767 Drury Lane King Richard III, Flora or Hob in the Well, The Vintage No No Yes £201 19s 58% N/A
20 Apr 1767 Drury Lane The Clandestine Marriage, Flora, Minuet, Cries of London (with Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey) No No Yes £232 1s 55% N/A
23 Apr 1767 Drury Lane King Lear, Flora, Hearts of Oak No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 May 1767 Drury Lane King Richard III, Flora, Double Hornpipe, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £65 9s 6d N/A N/A
15 May 1767 Drury Lane The Clandestine Marriage, Flora, The Louvre, Double Hornpipe, Linco's Travels, Minuet Yes No Yes £39 16s N/A N/A
16 May 1767 Drury Lane The Careless Husband, Flora, Minuet No No Yes £17 15s 6d N/A N/A
07 Dec 1767 Drury Lane The Widowd Wife, Flora or Hob in the Well No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Dec 1767 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Flora Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Jan 1768 Drury Lane False Delicacy, Flora No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Jan 1768 Drury Lane False Delicacy, Flora No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Sep 1768 Drury Lane Hamlet, Flora or Hob in the Well No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Dec 1769 Drury Lane The Suspicious Husband, Hob in the Well or Flora, The English Gardeners No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Mar 1770 Drury Lane A Word To The Wise, Hob in the Well No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Apr 1770 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, Flora or Hob in the Well, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £241 14s 6d N/A N/A
25 Nov 1771 Drury Lane The Suspicious Husband, Hob in the Well Yes No No £261 8s 6d 54% N/A
29 Nov 1774 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Hob in the Well, The Irish Fair Yes No No £269 3s N/A N/A
19 Dec 1774 Drury Lane The Choleric Man, Hob in the Well No No No £243 6s N/A N/A
26 May 1784 Covent Garden A Jubilee In Commemoration Of Handel, The Funeral or Grief a la Mode, Hob in the Well, The Charms of a Camp, Ode on the Passion, From the dread scene, The smiling Dawn, Revenge! Timotheus, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, As when the Dove No No Yes £233 1s 69% N/A
12 Dec 1786 Covent Garden He Would Be A Soldier, Hob in the Well, The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd No No No £129 11s 46% N/A
13 Dec 1786 Covent Garden Know Your Own Mind, Hob in the Well, The Drunken Sailor Reclaimed No No No £159 15s 41% N/A
14 Dec 1786 Covent Garden He Would Be A Soldier, Hob in the Well, The Drunken Sailor Reclaimed No Yes No £312 4s 60% N/A
20 Dec 1786 Covent Garden Eloisa, Hob in the Well, The Drunken Sailor Reclaimed No No No £165 14s 47% N/A
26 Jan 1787 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Hob in the Well No No No £238 5s 6d 64% N/A
16 May 1787 Covent Garden The School For Wives, Hob in the Well, The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd No No Yes £321 3s 6d 44% N/A
22 Nov 1787 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Hob in the Well No No No £155 12s 46% N/A
08 Apr 1788 Covent Garden The Ton Or Follies Of Fashion, Hob in the Well No No No £295 18s 6d 61% N/A
19 Nov 1788 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Hob in the Well, Mirth by Moonshine No No No £158 3s 43% N/A
10 Dec 1789 Covent Garden Marian, The Follies of a Day, Hob in the Well, Tambourine Dance No No No £145 2s 6d 40% N/A
12 Jan 1791 Covent Garden The Widow Of Malabar, A Divertisement, Hob in the Well No No No £231 14s 6d 49% N/A
08 Jun 1791 Covent Garden The Suspicious Husband, Hob in the Well, Tippoo Saib, Black-Eyed Susan, Indian War Song, Poor Orra Tink on Yanco Dear, The Gallant Soldier Born to Arms, The Tobacco Box No No Yes £325 9s 6d 100% N/A
15 Jun 1791 Covent Garden The Death Of Captain Cook, Wild Oats, Hob in the Well No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Dec 1791 Covent Garden A Day In Turkey Or The Russian Slaves, Hob in the Well No No No £263 16s 51% N/A
03 Jun 1795 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Hob in the Well, Britain's Glory or A Trip to Portsmouth, Within a Mile of Edinburgh, Dance of Sailors, Monsieur Tonson, A Variety of Imitations, Rule Britannia No No Yes £430 2s 55% N/A
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