The Miser (1733)

Author
Henry Fielding
Author
James Wild
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Comedy
Performance Medium
Spoken Drama
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
£21,770 6d £15,724 18s 6d (72.2%) £6,045 2s (27.8%)
1732 - 1809
£21,770 6d - (100%) £15,724 18s 6d (72.2%) £6,045 2s (27.8%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
259 139 120
1732 - 1809
259 139 120
Notes
Reduced to a three act afterpiece by James Wild in 1788 (published 1792).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
19 May 1742 Drury Lane The Miser, Miss Lucy in Town No No Yes £40 N/A N/A
25 May 1742 Covent Garden The Miser, Scots Dance, Rural Assembly, La Provencale, Les Savoyardes No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Sep 1742 Drury Lane The Miser, The King and Miller of Mansfield, Concerto, Tyrolean Dance, Let Me Wander Not Unseen, Peasant Dance No No No £83 19s 6d 100% N/A
08 Nov 1742 Covent Garden The Miser, Dutch Skipper, Characters of Dancing, Grand Ballet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Nov 1742 Drury Lane The Miser, Turkish Seraglio, Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie Yes No No £34 17s 6d N/A N/A
27 Dec 1742 Drury Lane The Miser, Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, La Recrue des Houssars No No No £42 19s N/A N/A
11 May 1743 Covent Garden The Miser, The Virgin Unmasked, Dutch Skipper, Grand Comic Ballet, Le Rendezvous Gallant No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Oct 1743 Drury Lane The Miser, The School Boy No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Nov 1743 Covent Garden The Miser, An Old Man Taught Wisdom or The Virgin Unmaskd No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 Dec 1743 Covent Garden The Miser, The Lottery, Les Paisans Moisonneurs No No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Dec 1743 Covent Garden The Miser, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Jan 1744 Drury Lane The Miser, Harlequin Grand Volgi No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Feb 1744 Covent Garden The Miser, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Apr 1744 Covent Garden The Miser, The Cure For All Grief, Serious Dance, Advice to all Britons, Britons Strike Home, Grand Ballet, The Miser's Passport, The Trumpet's Loud Clangor Excites Us to Arms, To Arms No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 May 1744 Drury Lane The Miser, The Devil to Pay, Concerto on violoncello No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 May 1744 Covent Garden The Miser, The Mock Doctor No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 Nov 1744 Covent Garden The Miser, The Life of a Belle No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Dec 1744 Covent Garden The Miser, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Jan 1745 Covent Garden The Miser, Pyramus and Thisbe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 May 1745 Covent Garden The Miser, The Devil to Pay, Comic Dance, Scotch Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Nov 1745 Covent Garden The Miser, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Dec 1745 Drury Lane The Miser, The Lottery No No No £55 6s N/A N/A
11 Jan 1746 Drury Lane The Miser, The Lying Valet No No No £58 16s 6d N/A N/A
10 Feb 1746 Drury Lane The Miser, The Contrivances, Italian Peasants No No No £76 5s N/A N/A
06 Mar 1746 Drury Lane The Miser, Harlequin Incendiary No No No £99 14s N/A N/A
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