The What D'Ye Call It (1715)

Author
John Gay
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
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
£2,422 5s £1,714 12s (70.8%) £707 13s (29.2%)
1732 - 1809
£2,422 5s - (100%) £1,714 12s (70.8%) £707 13s (29.2%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
82 67 15
1732 - 1809
82 67 15
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
19 Apr 1757 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The What Dye Call It No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Nov 1757 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The What Dye Call It, Fingalian Dance Yes No No £62 17s 30% N/A
30 Nov 1757 Covent Garden The Country Lasses, The What Dye Call It, Jovial Coopers No No No £41 16s 6d 29% N/A
23 Apr 1759 Covent Garden The Rival Queens, The What Dye Call It, The Country Wedding, The Milkmaid's Holiday No No Yes £178 9s 6d 30% N/A
15 May 1759 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The What Dye Call It, The Drunken Peasant, The Threshers No No Yes £176 1s N/A N/A
27 Mar 1764 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, The What Dye Call It, Hornpipe, The Cries of London, New Grand Ballet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
05 Apr 1764 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man, The What Dye Call It, Hornpipe, The Calabrian Peasants No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 Apr 1772 Drury Lane The West Indian, The What Dye Call It, Hornpipe, The Sailors' Revels No No Yes £246 19s 6d 53% N/A
28 Apr 1775 Covent Garden Love In A Village, The What dye Call It, Rural Merriment No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 May 1775 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The What DYe Call It, The Country Macaroni Assembly, Boadicea Queen of Britain, Minuet, The British Bacchanalian, Wooden Shoe Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
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