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 %
14 May 1793 Drury Lane King Henry The Eighth, The Devil to Pay No No No £115 10s 38% N/A
30 Oct 1794 Drury Lane The Heiress, The Devil to Pay No No No £172 7s 46% N/A
15 Nov 1794 Drury Lane The Roman Father, The Devil to Pay No No No £350 11s 63% N/A
09 Dec 1794 Drury Lane King Henry The Eighth, The Devil to Pay No No No £189 10s 49% N/A
06 Jan 1795 Drury Lane A Trip To Scarborough, The Devil to Pay No No No £138 6s 6d 50% N/A
08 Apr 1795 Covent Garden The Telegraph, The Comedy of Errors, The Miser, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £409 11s 48% N/A
21 Apr 1795 Drury Lane The Wheel Of Fortune, The Devil to Pay No No No £212 3s 57% N/A
28 May 1795 Drury Lane The Rivals, A Masonic Melange, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £443 19s 51% N/A
14 Dec 1795 Drury Lane Alexander The Great, The Devil to Pay No No No £296 9s 56% N/A
08 Mar 1796 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay No No No £217 4s 6d 54% N/A
31 Mar 1796 Drury Lane The Inconstant, The Devil to Pay No No No £230 1s 6d 46% N/A
02 May 1796 Drury Lane Julia Or Such Things Were, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £590 14s 64% N/A
21 May 1796 Drury Lane The Mountaineers, The Devil to Pay, A Musical Olio No No Yes £188 6s 6d N/A N/A
24 Oct 1796 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Devil to Pay No No No £427 19s 67% N/A
23 Nov 1796 Drury Lane The Fair Penitent, The Devil to Pay, The Scotch Ghost No No No £238 5s 59% N/A
30 Nov 1796 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Devil to Pay, The Scotch Ghost No No No £347 17s 6d 41% N/A
08 Dec 1796 Drury Lane The Wheel Of Fortune, The Devil to Pay, The Scotch Ghost No No No £202 1s 66% N/A
29 May 1797 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £550 3s 73% N/A
06 Jun 1797 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, Robin Hood, The Devil to Pay, The Storm No No Yes £410 18s 88% N/A
13 Jun 1797 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Devil to Pay, The Storm, The Beggar No No Yes £234 5s 71% N/A
05 Oct 1797 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Devil to Pay No No No £543 8s 100% N/A
16 Nov 1797 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Devil to Pay, A Trip to the Nore No No No £239 6d 69% N/A
31 Mar 1798 Drury Lane The Stranger, The Devil to Pay No No No £524 4s 65% N/A
23 Apr 1798 Drury Lane The Stranger, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £511 7s 64% N/A
05 May 1798 Drury Lane The Stranger, The Devil to Pay No No No £188 6s 60% N/A
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