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 %
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
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