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 %
02 Apr 1757 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The Knights, Minuet No No Yes £330 N/A N/A
14 Apr 1757 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The Author Yes No Yes £200 N/A N/A
15 Apr 1757 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Catherine and Petruchio No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 May 1757 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Lethe, Dutch Peasant, Country Lass, Dutch Sailor, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Sep 1757 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband Or A Journey To London, Damon and Phillida No No No £75 10s 6d 100% N/A
26 Oct 1757 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Merlin Harlequin Skeleton No No No £55 16s 6d 29% N/A
14 Jan 1758 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £84 7s 31% N/A
05 Apr 1758 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Knights, The Judgment of Paris No No Yes £138 12s N/A N/A
18 Apr 1758 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The Upholsterer, Minuet Yes No No £220 77% N/A
24 Oct 1758 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband Or A Journey To London, Harlequin Skeleton No No No £43 17s 29% N/A
25 Nov 1758 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Harlequin Skeleton No No No £63 17s 6d 33% N/A
20 Jan 1759 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £104 7s 40% N/A
10 Feb 1759 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £147 19s 6d 44% N/A
20 Mar 1759 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, Damon and Phillida No No Yes £230 N/A N/A
03 Apr 1759 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Judgment of Paris, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £172 7s 6d 28% N/A
27 Apr 1759 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The Apprentice No No Yes £150 N/A 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
01 Oct 1759 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband Or A Journey To London, The Honest Yorkshireman No No No £103 100% N/A
24 Nov 1759 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Rape of Proserpine With the Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Yes No No £114 19s N/A N/A
22 Dec 1759 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Fair No No No £151 18s 47% N/A
25 Feb 1760 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Fair No No No £145 18s N/A N/A
01 May 1760 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Harlequin Statue, Fingalian Dance, A Lesson on the Harp, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £180 5s N/A N/A
23 May 1760 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £23 2s 6d N/A N/A
19 Jun 1760 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The Mock Doctor, Dutch Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 Oct 1760 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband Or The Journey To London, The Double Disappointment No No No £55 6s N/A N/A
22 Oct 1760 Drury Lane The Provoked Husband, The Intriguing Chambermaid No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Dec 1760 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Thomas and Sally No No No £154 18s 6d N/A N/A
07 Apr 1761 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Thomas and Sally No No Yes £218 9s N/A N/A
18 Sep 1761 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband Or The Journey To London, The Chaplet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Nov 1762 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband Or The Journey To London, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Dec 1762 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Harlequin Sorcerer, The Jealous Woodcutter No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Oct 1763 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband Or A Journey To London, Harlequin Sorcerer Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Mar 1764 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The Fairy Tale No No No £231 19s N/A N/A
06 Mar 1764 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The Fairy Tale No No No £167 2s N/A N/A
10 Mar 1764 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The Rites of Hecate No No No £215 15s 6d N/A N/A
03 Apr 1764 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The Musical Lady, Packet of News, Hornpipe, Comic Paraphrase on the Seven Ages of Shakespeare, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £250 N/A N/A
01 May 1764 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, Thomas and Sally, The Provancalle, The Faggot Binders No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 May 1764 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, High Life below Stairs, The Irish Lilt No Yes No £184 3s 6d N/A N/A
15 May 1764 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The Fairy Tale, The CowKeepers Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
29 May 1764 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, The Witches, Double Hornpipe, The CowKeepers No No Yes £95 3s N/A N/A
06 Oct 1764 Drury Lane The Provoked Husband, The Fairy Tale, Irish Lilt No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Oct 1764 Drury Lane The Provoked Husband, The Fairy Tale, The Irish Lilt, New Tambourine, The Provencalle No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Nov 1764 Drury Lane The Provoked Husband, The Genii No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Dec 1764 Drury Lane The Provoked Husband, The Genii, The Medley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Feb 1765 Drury Lane The Provoked Husband, The Tutor, The Medley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Mar 1765 Drury Lane The Provoked Husband, Queen Mab Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Apr 1765 Drury Lane The Provoked Husband, Fortunatus, New Tambourine, Minuet Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 May 1765 Drury Lane The Provoked Husband, Polly Honeycombe Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 Oct 1765 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband Or A Journey To London, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Oct 1765 Drury Lane The Provoked Husband, Daphne and Amintor No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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