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 %
25 Sep 1735 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Devil to Pay, English Maggot, Fye nay prithee John or Handel's Jig No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Oct 1735 Covent Garden The Drummer Or The Haunted House, The Devil to Pay, Faithful Shepherd, Scots Dance, Two Pierrots No No No £42 14s 6d 100% N/A
06 Nov 1735 Drury Lane The Rover Or The Banished Cavaliers, The Devil to Pay, Drunken Peasant, English Maggot, Revellers No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Nov 1735 Drury Lane Love Makes A Man, The Devil to Pay, Grand Serious Ballet, Comic Dance, Grand Ballet, Le Badinage de Provence No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Dec 1735 Drury Lane The Silent Woman, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
31 Dec 1735 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Devil to Pay, Revellers, Tambourine, Venetian Gondolier and Courtezan No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Jan 1736 Drury Lane The Twin Rivals, The Devil to Pay, English Maggot, Dutchman and Frow, Tambourine, The Rover Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Jan 1736 Drury Lane Oroonoko, The Devil to Pay, English Maggot, Tambourine, The Raver No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Feb 1736 Covent Garden King Lear And His Three Daughters, The Devil to Pay, Glover's Scots Dance, French Peasant, Tambourine No No Yes £110 17s 6d N/A N/A
25 Feb 1736 Drury Lane Timon Of Athens, The Devil to Pay, English Maggot No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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