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 %
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
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