The Lying Valet (1741)

Author
David Garrick
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
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
£30,958 18s 3d £8,344 19s 3d (27%) £22,613 19s (73%)
1732 - 1809
£30,958 18s 3d - (100%) £8,344 19s 3d (27%) £22,613 19s (73%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
292 87 205
1732 - 1809
292 87 205
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
10 Jan 1774 Drury Lane The School For Wives, The Lying Valet No No Yes £212 3s 6d N/A N/A
02 Dec 1774 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Lying Valet No No No £264 1s 6d N/A N/A
26 May 1775 Drury Lane Twelfth Night, The Lying Valet, The Pirates No No Yes £211 16s N/A N/A
21 Nov 1775 Covent Garden The Duenna Or The Double Elopement, The Lying Valet, New Spanish Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Mar 1776 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, The Grand Garland Dance No No Yes £160 10s N/A N/A
12 Apr 1782 Drury Lane Variety, The Lying Valet, Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £95 9s N/A N/A
19 Sep 1782 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Lying Valet, Minuet de la Cour, A Dramatic Oglio No No No £141 9s 6d 100% N/A
30 Oct 1782 Drury Lane The Grecian Daughter, The Lying Valet, The Irish Fair No No No £234 1s 64% N/A
30 Nov 1784 Covent Garden Fontainbleau, The Lying Valet, Leap Year, or A New Way of Wooing No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Dec 1784 Covent Garden Robin Hood, The Lying Valet, The Mountaineers, or The Woodland Sports No No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Sep 1785 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, Hornpipe No No No £180 6s 6d 100% N/A
03 Oct 1787 Covent Garden Love In A Village, The Lying Valet No No No £189 4s 3d 66% N/A
08 Oct 1787 Covent Garden Love In A Village, The Lying Valet, Mirth by Moonshine No No No £223 18s 6d 100% N/A
02 Oct 1788 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Lying Valet, The Conjugal Frolick No No No £174 6s 6d 100% N/A
05 Dec 1789 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Lying Valet No No No £208 1s 6d 51% N/A
12 Dec 1789 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Lying Valet No No No £207 10s 6d 48% N/A
26 May 1790 Covent Garden The Lying Valet, The Poor Soldier, Harlequin's Chaplet, Grand Ballet of Action No No Yes £285 2s 72% N/A
15 Apr 1793 Covent Garden The Comedy Of Errors, The Relief of Williamstadt, The Lying Valet, The Bouquet No Yes No £350 4s 6d N/A N/A
29 May 1793 Covent Garden How To Grow Rich, The Lying Valet, Scotch Divertisement No Yes No £350 74% N/A
29 Jun 1799 Drury Lane Pizarro, The Lying Valet, The Scotch Ghost No No No £395 8s 6d 100% N/A
21 Sep 1799 Drury Lane The Clandestine Marriage, The Lying Valet No No No £276 4s 6d 100% N/A
21 Dec 1799 Drury Lane Pizarro, The Lying Valet No No No £378 13s 6d 100% N/A
07 Jan 1800 Drury Lane Pizarro, The Lying Valet No No No £456 4s 6d 69% N/A
07 Feb 1800 Drury Lane Pizarro, The Lying Valet No No No £409 16s 72% N/A
08 Mar 1800 Drury Lane Blue beard, The Lying Valet, Of Age To morrow No No No £188 7s 39% N/A
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