Tom Thumb (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 %
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