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

Author
John Mottley
Author
Charles Coffey
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 %
10 Apr 1765 Drury Lane Othello, The Devil to Pay, The Medley, The Irish Lilt No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 May 1765 Covent Garden She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not, The Devil to Pay, The Drunken Peasant, Hornpipe, La Femme Maitresse No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 Sep 1765 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Nov 1765 Drury Lane Much Ado About Nothing, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Nov 1765 Drury Lane Mahomet, The Devil to Pay, Dutch Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Jan 1766 Covent Garden The Double Mistake, The Devil to Pay, The Venetian Gardeners No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Apr 1766 Drury Lane All For Love, The Devil to Pay, The Lark's Shrill Notes, The Irish Lilt Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Apr 1766 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Devil to Pay, The Irish Lilt, The Cries of London, New Tambourine Dance, Tombs of Westminster Abbey Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 May 1766 Drury Lane Mahomet, The Devil to Pay, New Comic Dance, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 May 1766 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Devil to Pay, The Whistling Plowman, Tambourine, Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 May 1766 Covent Garden The Mistake, The Devil to Pay, Hornpipe, The Village Romps No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 May 1766 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Devil to Pay, Double Hornpipe, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 May 1766 Drury Lane Every Man In His Humor, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Sep 1766 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Devil to Pay, The Venetian Travellers No No No £82 1s 6d 100% N/A
10 Oct 1766 Drury Lane The Provoked Wife, The Devil to Pay No No No £249 11s 6d 60% N/A
03 Feb 1767 Drury Lane The Provoked Wife, The Devil to Pay No No No £247 17s 62% N/A
02 Mar 1767 Drury Lane The English Merchant, The Devil to Pay, New Comic Dance, The Lilliputian Camp No Yes No £238 1s 6d 51% N/A
07 Mar 1767 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Devil to Pay No No No £261 15s 6d 51% N/A
02 Apr 1767 Drury Lane Dido, The Devil to Pay, The Lilliputian Camp No No No £153 5s 6d 51% N/A
22 May 1767 Covent Garden She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not, The Devil to Pay, Double Hornpipe, The Wapping Landlady, New Pantomime Ballet No No Yes £271 8s N/A N/A
15 Sep 1767 Covent Garden The Rehearsal, The Devil to Pay Yes No No £68 11s 6d N/A N/A
25 Sep 1767 Drury Lane The Provoked Wife, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Dec 1767 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Devil to Pay, The Irish Haymakers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Feb 1768 Drury Lane Macbeth, The Devil to Pay No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Mar 1768 Drury Lane Cymon, The Devil to Pay No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
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