The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphosed (1731)

Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Ballad Opera/Burletta/Opera
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
£70,991 8s 3d £12,796 16s (18%) £58,194 12s 3d (82%)
1732 - 1809
£70,991 8s 3d - (100%) £12,796 16s (18%) £58,194 12s 3d (82%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
709 207 502
1732 - 1809
709 207 502
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
04 Feb 1772 Drury Lane The Fashionable Lover, The Devil to Pay, The Sailors' Revels No No No £189 12s 6d 50% N/A
09 Mar 1772 Drury Lane The Grecian Daughter, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £264 8s 6d N/A N/A
29 May 1772 Covent Garden The Miser, The Devil to Pay, Hornpipe, The Provenzale No No Yes £254 14s 6d 40% N/A
02 Jun 1772 Drury Lane King Richard III, The Devil to Pay, Linco's Travels Yes No Yes £313 4s 3d 100% N/A
14 Oct 1772 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, The Devil to Pay No No No £248 2s 65% N/A
11 Dec 1772 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Devil to Pay, Comic Dance No No No £199 19s 6d 61% N/A
27 Mar 1773 Covent Garden Artaxerxes, The Devil to Pay, The Wanton God Yes No Yes £271 19s 61% N/A
20 Sep 1773 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Devil to Pay No No No £184 4s 6d 100% N/A
24 Nov 1773 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Devil to Pay, The Mountaineers No No No £248 15s 6d 54% N/A
01 Mar 1774 Drury Lane The Chances, The Devil to Pay No No No £263 17s 60% N/A
20 Oct 1774 Drury Lane Every Man In His Humour, The Devil to Pay, The Sailors' Revels No No No £251 4s N/A N/A
05 Dec 1775 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Devil to Pay No No No £270 14s N/A N/A
27 May 1776 Drury Lane King Richard III, The Devil to Pay No No No £307 3s 6d N/A N/A
08 Jun 1776 Drury Lane King Lear, The Devil to Pay No No No £307 9s 6d 100% N/A
22 Apr 1777 Covent Garden All In The Wrong, The Devil to Pay, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £282 10s 6d 38% N/A
19 May 1777 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Devil to Pay No No No £263 16s 80% N/A
24 May 1777 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Devil to Pay No No No £246 5s 88% N/A
04 Jun 1777 Drury Lane The Fair Quaker, The Devil to Pay, Comic Dance, Dance of Sailors, Rule Britannia No No Yes £224 9s 100% N/A
25 Sep 1777 Drury Lane The Clandestine Marriage, The Devil to Pay No No No £154 1s 100% N/A
23 May 1778 Drury Lane Romeo And Juliet, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £182 18s 6d 31% N/A
09 Apr 1779 Drury Lane The Discovery, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £145 13s 6d N/A N/A
14 Feb 1782 Covent Garden Which Is The Man?, The Dramatic Puffers, The Devil to Pay, St David's Day; or, The Village Revels No No No £243 6s 63% N/A
28 May 1782 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Devil to Pay, The Merry Sailors No No Yes £245 3s 100% N/A
11 Apr 1785 Covent Garden Women Pleased, The Devil to Pay, Four and Twenty Fidlers All on a Row, A Description of the Curiosities of the Tower of London No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 Mar 1787 Covent Garden Such Things Are, The Devil to Pay No No No £240 13s 63% N/A
09 Jun 1787 Covent Garden The Midnight Hour, Nina, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £64 17s N/A N/A
17 Dec 1788 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosed, Jamie's Return No No Yes £282 6s 59% N/A
19 Dec 1788 Drury Lane The Constant Couple, The Devil to Pay No No No £184 7s 64% N/A
26 Dec 1788 Drury Lane The Confederacy, The Devil to Pay No No No £206 11s 40% N/A
31 Dec 1788 Drury Lane She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not, The Devil to Pay No No No £149 8s 49% N/A
21 Jan 1789 Drury Lane She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not, The Devil to Pay No No No £204 1s 55% N/A
09 Feb 1789 Drury Lane The Impostors, The Devil to Pay No No No £183 10s 6d 47% N/A
26 Feb 1789 Drury Lane She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not, The Devil to Pay No No No £211 2s 54% N/A
09 Mar 1789 Drury Lane The Strangers At Home, The Devil to Pay No No No £197 16s 6d 56% N/A
16 Mar 1789 Drury Lane She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not, The Devil to Pay No No No £161 5s 38% N/A
17 Apr 1789 Drury Lane The Strangers At Home, The Devil to Pay, Tis' Health That Gives Birth No No Yes £216 15s 6d 32% N/A
27 Apr 1789 Drury Lane Mary Queen Of Scots, The Devil to Pay No No No £231 8s 6d 52% N/A
04 May 1789 Drury Lane The Constant Couple, The Devil to Pay No No No £149 4s 46% N/A
14 May 1789 Drury Lane The Strangers At Home, The Devil to Pay No No No £97 5s 58% N/A
29 May 1789 Drury Lane The Constant Couple, The Devil to Pay No No No £86 18s 65% N/A
13 Jun 1789 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Devil to Pay, The Russian Minuet No No Yes £131 11s 6d N/A N/A
02 Mar 1790 Drury Lane The Confederacy, The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosed No No No £180 5s 46% N/A
09 Mar 1790 Drury Lane Love In Many Masks, The Devil to Pay, The Elopement; or, Marriage a la Mode No No No £147 3s 6d 42% N/A
09 Apr 1790 Drury Lane Twelfth Night, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £204 2s 38% N/A
27 Apr 1790 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £236 13s 57% N/A
01 May 1790 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Devil to Pay, The Irish Bird Catchers No No Yes £212 14s 6d 42% N/A
21 May 1790 Drury Lane A Trip To Scarborough, The Devil to Pay, The Elopement; or, Marriage a la Mode No No Yes £320 17s 27% N/A
20 Oct 1790 Drury Lane The Confederacy, The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosed No No No £190 2s 6d 51% N/A
16 Dec 1790 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Devil to Pay No No No £211 13s 6d 62% N/A
08 Jan 1791 Drury Lane The Siege Of Belgrade, The Devil to Pay No No No £307 7s 55% N/A