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 %
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
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