He Would be a Soldier (1786)

Author
Frederick Pilon
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
£8,832 4s £8,832 4s (100%) £0 (0%)
1732 - 1809
£8,832 4s - (100%) £8,832 4s (100%) £0 (0%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
38 38 0
1732 - 1809
38 38 0
Notes
Converted into an afterpiece in March 1794.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
06 Feb 1787 Covent Garden He Would Be A Soldier, Duke and No Duke, The Wapping Landlady No No No £102 6s 33% N/A
10 Apr 1787 Covent Garden He Would Be A Soldier, The Deserter, Four and Twenty Fidlers All on a Row, Lingo's Opinions on Men and Manners No No Yes £323 19s 69% N/A
20 Apr 1787 Covent Garden He Would Be A Soldier, The Deserter, The Indian's Ransom No No Yes £190 8s 6d 48% N/A
25 May 1787 Covent Garden He Would Be A Soldier, Love and War, The Wapping Landlady No No Yes £216 16s 6d 71% N/A
26 Sep 1787 Covent Garden He Would Be A Soldier, Poor Vulcan, Leap Year or A New Way of Wooing No No No £167 8s 100% N/A
29 Nov 1787 Covent Garden He Would Be A Soldier, The Farmer, The Piping Pedlar No No No £130 13s 6d 48% N/A
05 May 1788 Covent Garden He Would Be A Soldier, Linco's Travels, Tom Thumb No No Yes £262 9s 6d 44% N/A
15 Apr 1789 Covent Garden He Would Be A Soldier, Aladin No Yes No £388 16s 6d 73% N/A
04 Jun 1789 Covent Garden He Would Be A Soldier, Love in a Camp, Mirth by Moonshine No No Yes £311 1s 73% N/A
19 May 1791 Covent Garden He Would Be A Soldier, Love in a Camp, The Group of Lovers; Or, Beauty At Her Levee, Say Bonny Lass Will You Lie in a Garrat, The Pleasures of the Chace No No Yes £334 17s N/A N/A
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