Tom Thumb (1780)

Author
Henry Fielding
Author
Kane O'Hara
Composer
J. Markordt (1780)
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
£19,100 15s 6d £18,752 2s (98.2%) £348 13s 6d (1.8%)
1732 - 1809
£19,100 15s 6d - (100%) £18,752 2s (98.2%) £348 13s 6d (1.8%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
130 126 4
1732 - 1809
130 126 4
Notes
Adapted from Henry Fielding's 'Tom Thumb' (1730).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
27 May 1783 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, Tom Thumb, The Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £254 1s 23% N/A
04 Jun 1783 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Tom Thumb, Damon and Musidora, Diversion a la Mode, The Devonshire Minuet No No Yes £262 19s 100% N/A
26 Sep 1783 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Tom Thumb No No No £178 2s 6d 100% N/A
15 Oct 1783 Covent Garden Spanish Friar, The Rival Knights, Tom Thumb No No No £198 12s 100% N/A
11 Dec 1783 Covent Garden Venice Preserved, Tom Thumb No No No £193 5s 67% N/A
22 Jan 1784 Covent Garden Zenobia, Tom Thumb No No No £152 12s 48% N/A
13 Apr 1784 Covent Garden The Two Gentlemen Of Verona, The Rival Knights, Tom Thumb, A Frighten'd Song No No Yes £316 5s 52% N/A
15 Apr 1784 Covent Garden The Chances, Tom Thumb, The Belle of the Village No No Yes £168 2s 40% N/A
28 Apr 1784 Drury Lane Cato, Tom Thumb, The Sportsmen's Return, Auld Robin Grey, Imitations No No Yes £207 1s 6d 53% N/A
06 Nov 1784 Covent Garden The Hypocrite, Tom Thumb, The Belle of the Village No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Nov 1784 Covent Garden The Grecian Daughter, Tom Thumb No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Mar 1785 Covent Garden The Follies Of A Day, Tom Thumb, The Belle of the Village No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Apr 1785 Covent Garden King Henry The Eighth, Tom Thumb, Leap Year, or A New Way of Wooing, Tally Ho! No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Nov 1785 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Tom Thumb, Solemn Dirge No No No £247 12s 6d 59% N/A
09 Dec 1785 Covent Garden The Roman Father, Tom Thumb No No No £134 2s 6d 42% N/A
13 May 1786 Covent Garden Timon Of Athens, Tom Thumb, Masquerade Dance, Leap Year No No Yes £80 10s N/A N/A
20 May 1786 Covent Garden I'll Tell You What, Tom Thumb, The Piping Pedlar No No Yes £107 8s 33% N/A
23 Nov 1786 Covent Garden He Would Be A Soldier, Tom Thumb No No No £197 10s 56% N/A
29 Mar 1788 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Tom Thumb, The Piping Pedlar, Hornpipe No No Yes £293 15s 6d 39% N/A
11 Apr 1788 Covent Garden The Poor Soldier, The Winter's Tale, Tom Thumb, Four and Twenty Fidlers, Come Come My Good Shepherds No No Yes £260 17s 52% 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
28 May 1788 Covent Garden Fontainbleau, Tom Thumb, New Tambourine Dance, Concertante (two violins by the Master Wares), Fortune's Favor, or The Lovers Lottery No No Yes £221 13s 6d 35% N/A
03 Jun 1788 Covent Garden The Follies Of A Day, Linco's Travels, Tom Thumb, The Soldier Tired of War's Alarms, A Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey No No Yes £177 4s 6d 69% N/A
03 Oct 1788 Covent Garden The Revenge, Tom Thumb, Mirth by Moonshine No No No £187 7s 100% N/A
20 Feb 1789 Covent Garden The Careless Husband, Tom Thumb No No No £220 18s 68% N/A
19 May 1789 Covent Garden More Ways Than One, Tom Thumb, Mirth by Moonshine No No Yes £138 9s 6d 59% N/A
29 May 1789 Covent Garden The Comedy Of Errors, The Feast of Anacreon, The Cheats of Scapin, Tom Thumb No No Yes £182 8s 6d 35% N/A
16 Oct 1789 Covent Garden Othello, Tom Thumb No No No £242 16s 6d 100% N/A
23 Nov 1789 Covent Garden King Lear, Tom Thumb No No No £215 8s 6d 56% N/A
10 Feb 1790 Covent Garden The Dramatist, Tom Thumb, The Deserter No No No £209 15s 6d 49% N/A
07 Apr 1790 Covent Garden The Comedy Of Errors, The Englishman in Paris, Tom Thumb, Four and Twenty Fiddlers All on a Row No No Yes £366 8s 69% N/A
28 Apr 1790 Covent Garden The Suspicious Husband, Tom Thumb, The Deserter No No No £131 14s 6d 51% N/A
08 Dec 1790 Covent Garden The Wives Revenged, The Dramatist, Tom Thumb No No No £141 6s 6d 54% N/A
08 Feb 1791 Covent Garden The School For Arrogance, Tom Thumb No No Yes £172 15s N/A N/A
16 Sep 1791 Covent Garden The Suspicious Husband, Tom Thumb No No No £116 5s 100% N/A
12 May 1792 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man, Tom Thumb, The Jockey Dance, Reel No No Yes £403 2s N/A N/A
05 Jun 1793 Covent Garden The Comedy Of Errors, Tom Thumb, Scotch Divertisement, Black Eyed Susan No Yes No £316 15s 87% N/A
17 Sep 1793 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Tom Thumb, The Wapping Landlady No No No £160 17s 100% N/A
10 Oct 1794 Covent Garden Cymbeline, Tom Thumb No No No £292 13s 100% N/A
15 Oct 1794 Covent Garden King Richard The Third, Tom Thumb No No No £227 10s 6d 100% N/A
24 Oct 1794 Covent Garden The Rage, Tom Thumb No No No £288 13s 100% N/A
06 May 1795 Covent Garden The Bank Note, The Death of Captain Faulknor or British Heroism, Tom Thumb, The Irishmans Peep at the Continent, Imitations, A description of the Irish way of settling a Quarrel, Black Eyed Susan, Description of Cockney, Glee, Hail to be Brave, Negro Song, O bring me wine, With pride we steer for Britain's coast Yes No Yes £402 10s 43% N/A
21 May 1795 Covent Garden The Bank Note, The British Recruit, Tom Thumb, The Irishman's Peep at the Continent, The Days We Now Possess, The Mid Watch, The Storm No No Yes £176 12s 6d 28% N/A
18 May 1796 Covent Garden Inkle And Yarico, Tom Thumb, The Point at Herqui, Negro Dance, Admiral Benbow, Irish Song, Loyal Song, Mad Bess, Rondo, Rule Britannia, The Gentlemen of England, The Waiter, Tippy Bob, Where is That Tow'ring Spirit Fled No No Yes £238 4s 37% N/A
19 Apr 1797 Covent Garden The Way To Get Married, What d'ye Call It, Tom Thumb No No Yes £352 6d 26% N/A
03 May 1799 Covent Garden Abroad And At Home, The Vanguard; or, British Tars Regaling after Battle, Tom Thumb, Lovely Nan, A Bundle of Proverbs, Black Ey'd Susan, In the Dead of the Night, Together Let Us Range No No Yes £480 10s 48% N/A
17 Apr 1800 Covent Garden The Votary Of Wealth, The Rendezvous, Tom Thumb No No Yes £195 7s 25% N/A
14 May 1806 Covent Garden Henry the Eighth, Tom Thumb No No No £222 16s 56% N/A
16 May 1806 Covent Garden Isabella, Tom Thumb No No Yes £247 6s 6d N/A N/A
17 May 1806 Covent Garden The Man of the World, Tom Thumb No No No £232 4s 43% N/A
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