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 %
09 Dec 1740 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Devil to Pay, Les Jardiniers Suedois, Le Boufon Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Dec 1740 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay, Les Jardiniers Suedois, Le Boufon No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Dec 1740 Drury Lane Julius Caesar, The Devil to Pay, Le Boufon, Les Jardiniers Suedois, Shepherd and Shepherdesses Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Jan 1741 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Devil to Pay, Le Boufon, Les Matelotes, Les Sabotiers No Yes Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Jan 1741 Covent Garden Henry IV Part I, The Devil to Pay, Miller and His Wife, Yorkshire Maggot No No Yes £59 4s 6d N/A N/A
09 Feb 1741 Drury Lane The Confederacy, The Devil to Pay, Les Sabotiers, L'Hydropique Amoreux, Les Egyptiens No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 Mar 1741 Drury Lane Macbeth, The Devil to Pay, La Tambourine No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
31 Mar 1741 Drury Lane Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias, The Devil to Pay, Les Tambourine Matelotes, La Tambourine No Yes Yes Unknown N/A N/A
02 Apr 1741 Drury Lane The Pilgrim, The Devil to Pay, La Tambourine, Grand Serious Ballet, Les Tambourine Matelotes, Shepherds and Shepherdesses No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Apr 1741 Drury Lane King Henry The Fourth Part I, The Devil to Pay, L'Allemande, Mary Scot, Grand Ballet, New Tambourine, Shepherds and Shepherdesses No Yes Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 Apr 1741 Drury Lane Volpone, The Devil to Pay, L'Arlequine deux visages, Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind, Ballet, L'Allamande, The Echo Song No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 Apr 1741 Covent Garden Abra Mule, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £136 8s 6d N/A N/A
14 Apr 1741 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Devil to Pay, La Tambourine, La Terpsichore, Les Caprices des Rebelles No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 Apr 1741 Drury Lane King Henry The Eighth, The Devil to Pay, Shepherds and Shepherdesses, Blow Blow Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Apr 1741 Drury Lane The Lady's Last Stake Or The Wifes Resentment, The Devil to Pay, Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond, Grand Ballet, La Tambourine No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 Apr 1741 Covent Garden The Fair Quaker Of Deal, The Devil to Pay, Comic Dance, Britons Strike Home, Pierots, Tambourine No No Yes £110 N/A N/A
05 May 1741 Covent Garden The Country Lasses, The Devil to Pay, Wooden Shoe Dance, Comic Dance, Pierots No No Yes £120 N/A N/A
07 May 1741 Drury Lane Love Makes A Man, The Devil to Pay, La Tambourine, Blow, Blow, Comic Dance, Grand Ballet Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 May 1741 Drury Lane The Relapse, The Devil to Pay, La Tambourine, Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind, Ballet, Mad Tom, Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 Sep 1741 Drury Lane Othello Moor Of Venice, The Devil to Pay Yes No No £103 100% N/A
12 Sep 1741 Drury Lane Love's Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion, The Devil to Pay No No No £100 100% N/A
06 Oct 1741 Drury Lane The Relapse Or Virtue In Danger, The Devil to Pay Yes No No £110 100% N/A
08 Oct 1741 Drury Lane Macbeth, The Devil to Pay No No No £83 N/A N/A
10 Oct 1741 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Devil to Pay, The Swiss, The Peasant No No No £40 N/A N/A
20 Oct 1741 Drury Lane Love Makes A Man, The Devil to Pay, Happy Pair, Ballet, Non Ch' Amarmi, Sailors Dance Yes No No £60 N/A N/A
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