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 %
27 Apr 1736 Covent Garden The Provok'd Wife, Flora, Clown, Chancon a Boire, Peasants, Sailors from Orestes No No Yes £109 1s 6d N/A N/A
29 Apr 1736 Covent Garden The Relapse, Flora, Two Pierrots, Sailors from Orestes, The Peasants No No Yes £114 3s 6d N/A N/A
18 May 1736 Covent Garden She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not, Flora, Comic Ballet, Comic Dance, Comic Dance in Character of a Polonese, New Serious Dance No No Yes £149 6s 6d N/A N/A
04 Jun 1736 Covent Garden The Relapse, Flora, Water Music, Peasant Dance, Mock Italian Song, Harlequin Punch and Colombine, Praise of Old English Beer, Sailors Dance No No Yes £72 11s 6d 100% N/A
17 Sep 1736 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband Or A Journey To London, Flora, Clown No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Dec 1736 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Flora, Two Pierrots, Scots Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 Jan 1737 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, Flora, French Peasant, Hornpipe Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Feb 1737 Covent Garden The Committee, Flora, Hornpipe, Peasant No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Mar 1737 Covent Garden Volpone, Flora, Two Pierrots, Comic Dance, Minuet, Punch in Love with Dame Ragonde, Serious Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Apr 1737 Covent Garden Othello Moor Of Venice, Flora, Grecian Sailors No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Sep 1737 Covent Garden The Rover Or The Banished Cavaliers, Flora, The Ladies' Lamentation for the Loss of Senesino, Je ne scai quoi No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Sep 1737 Covent Garden King Lear And His Three Daughters, Flora No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Oct 1737 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband Or A Journey To London, Flora, New Comic Dance, Je ne scai quoi No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Mar 1738 Covent Garden King Henry The Sixth Part I, Flora, Two Pierrots, Scots Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Mar 1738 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Flora, Je ne scai quoi, Grand Ballet, Grecian Sailors, Minuet, Two Pierrots Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Apr 1738 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Flora, Comic Dance, Grecian Sailors, Two Pierrots No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1738 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Flora, Comic Dance, French Sailors, Serious Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 Oct 1738 Covent Garden Jane Shore, Flora No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Jan 1739 Covent Garden The Provok'd Wife, Flora, Comic Dance, Grecian Sailors, Serious Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 May 1739 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Flora, Two Pierots, Grecian Sailors, Je ne sai quoi No Yes Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 May 1739 Drury Lane The Committee, Flora, Tambourine, Flanderkins, Turkish Dance, Two Pierots No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 Nov 1739 Covent Garden The Careless Husband, Flora, Genius of England, Comic Ballet, Water Music, Grand Ballet, La Badinage de Provence No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 Dec 1739 Covent Garden The Careless Husband, Flora, Je ne scay quoiI, Love in Low Life, French Peasants, Scots Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 May 1744 Covent Garden Macbeth, Flora or Hob in the Well, Grand Ballet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 May 1744 Drury Lane The London Merchant, Flora Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
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