The Provoked Husband; or, A Journey to London (1728)

Author
Colley Cibber
Author
Sir John Vanbrugh
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
£36,316 2s 6d £16,102 15s 6d (44.3%) £20,213 7s (55.7%)
1732 - 1809
£36,316 2s 6d - (100%) £16,102 15s 6d (44.3%) £20,213 7s (55.7%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
410 210 200
1732 - 1809
410 210 200
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
05 Jan 1736 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Apollo and Daphne No No No £90 15s N/A N/A
07 Feb 1736 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Royal Chace No No No £94 19s N/A N/A
23 Mar 1736 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Innocent Theft, Tambourine, Scots Dance, Two Pierrots No No Yes £116 9s 6d N/A N/A
15 Apr 1736 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The Virgin Unmasked, New Comic Dance, English Maggot, Revellers No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 May 1736 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The Mock Doctor, English Maggot, Dutchman and his Frow, Revellers No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 Jun 1736 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Royal Chace Yes No No £21 12s 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
05 May 1737 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The King and the Miller of Mansfield, English Maggot, Harlequin, Minuet, Wooden Shoe Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
09 May 1737 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Damon and Phillida, The Lady's Lamentation for the Loss of Senesino, Hornpipe, Comic Dance No No Yes 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
16 Nov 1737 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Dragon of Wantley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Jan 1738 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Dragon of Wantley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Feb 1738 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, Harlequin Grand Volgi, Russian Sailor, Ballet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Apr 1738 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Dragon of Wantley, Two Pierrots, French Peasant, Grand Ballet, Scots Dance, Two Tambourines Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Sep 1738 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband Or A Journey To London, The Dragon of Wantley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Nov 1738 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Toy Shop, Comic Dance, Serious Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 Dec 1738 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Mar 1739 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Country Wedding (the Comic Part of Acis and Galatea) Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Mar 1739 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The Devil to Pay, Punch Dance, See from the Silent Groves, Pierots, Turkish Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 May 1739 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, Mars and Venus, Punches Dance, The Noontide Air, Concerto, Moors' Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 May 1739 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The King and the Miller of Mansfield, Punches, Dutch Dance, Ethiopian Dance, Tambourine No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 Sep 1739 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband Or A Journey To London, The Strolers, Grecian Sailors, A new English Ballet; or Country Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Oct 1739 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Necromancer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Nov 1739 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Country House, Serious Dance, The Reprizal, New Dance Between a Sailor and his Mistress to the tune of To Arms, Scotch Dance No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
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