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 %
05 Feb 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, Country Dance, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No No £105 7s 6d 38% N/A
06 Feb 1759 Covent Garden Cleone, The Lying Valet, The Threshers No No No £109 7s 37% N/A
09 Feb 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, Country Dance, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No No £77 2s 30% N/A
13 Feb 1759 Covent Garden The Siege Of Damascus, The Lying Valet, The Threshers No No No £50 19s 6d 29% N/A
19 Feb 1759 Covent Garden Cymbeline, The Lying Valet, The Threshers No No Yes £95 11s 34% N/A
06 Mar 1759 Drury Lane Eurydice, The Lying Valet No No No £150 3s 6d 42% N/A
29 Mar 1759 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Lying Valet, The Goldfinch, Bacchanalian Song No No Yes £280 N/A N/A
02 Apr 1759 Covent Garden Cleone, The Lying Valet, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £175 18s N/A N/A
05 Apr 1759 Covent Garden Jane Shore, The Lying Valet, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £220 9s N/A N/A
18 Apr 1759 Covent Garden The Prophetess, The Sultan, The Lying Valet No No Yes £159 9s N/A N/A
28 May 1759 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet No No Yes £180 N/A N/A
19 Jun 1759 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, New Dutch Dance, Country Dance, Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 Oct 1759 Covent Garden The Twin Rivals, The Lying Valet, The Threshers Yes No No £101 9s 100% N/A
10 Oct 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, Country Dance, Hornpipe No No No £188 11s 6d 100% N/A
18 Oct 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, Country Dance, Hornpipe, The Dutch Skipper, The Irish Turf-Cutters No No No £115 1s 6d 49% N/A
19 Oct 1759 Drury Lane King Richard III, The Lying Valet No No No £200 58% N/A
01 Nov 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, Country Dance, Hornpipe, The Dutch Skipper, The Threshers No No No £143 12s 59% N/A
10 Nov 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, Country Dance, Fingalian Dance, Hornpipe, The Dutch Skipper No No No £111 18s N/A N/A
20 Nov 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, Country Dance, Hornpipe, New Comic Dance No No No £97 2s 35% N/A
25 Jan 1760 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, Hornpipe, Comic Dance, Country Dance Yes No No £147 1s 6d N/A N/A
08 Feb 1760 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, Hornpipe, Comic Dance, Country Dance Yes No No £150 11s N/A N/A
12 May 1760 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune, The Lying Valet, New Comic Dance, The Knife Grinders No No Yes £196 10s 6d N/A N/A
21 Oct 1760 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, The Colliers, The Pedlar Tricked Yes No No £116 7s N/A N/A
17 Nov 1760 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, The Lying Valet, The Pedlar Tricked No No No £140 12s 6d N/A N/A
08 Jan 1761 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, The Colliers No No No £218 9s N/A N/A
02 Apr 1761 Covent Garden Macbeth, The Lying Valet, Les Charboniers No No Yes £153 9s 6d N/A N/A
09 Apr 1761 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, Hornpipe, Country Dance, The Waggoners No No Yes £81 8s N/A N/A
25 Apr 1761 Covent Garden Theodosius, The Lying Valet, The Waggoners No No Yes £151 13s 6d N/A N/A
04 May 1761 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Lying Valet, Last New Comic Dance, Tea ala Mode, The Cries of London No No Yes £250 14s 6d N/A N/A
25 Sep 1761 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, The Lying Valet No No No £89 8s N/A N/A
06 May 1762 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Lying Valet, The Pleasures of Spring No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Sep 1762 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, Dutch Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Apr 1763 Drury Lane Macbeth, The Lying Valet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 Apr 1764 Drury Lane Othello, The Lying Valet, The Faggot Binders Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 May 1764 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Lying Valet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 Sep 1764 Drury Lane King Richard III, The Lying Valet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Oct 1764 Covent Garden The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him, The Lying Valet, Blind Mans Buff, La Femme Maitresse No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Nov 1764 Drury Lane Venice Preserved, The Lying Valet, New Tambourine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Jan 1765 Drury Lane The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great, The Lying Valet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Jan 1765 Drury Lane The Platonic Wife, The Lying Valet, Comic Dance, The Medley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Oct 1766 Drury Lane Much Ado About Nothing, The Lying Valet, Masquerade Dance, Country Dance No No No £234 12s 6d 61% N/A
25 Oct 1766 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Lying Valet No No No £178 2s 6d 60% N/A
05 Feb 1767 Drury Lane The Plain Dealer, The Lying Valet, The Vintage No Yes No £244 2s 56% N/A
19 May 1767 Covent Garden The Fair Quaker Of Deal, The Lying Valet, Blind Mans Buff, The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe Yes No Yes £250 8s N/A N/A
22 Dec 1770 Drury Lane King Arthur, The Lying Valet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Jan 1771 Drury Lane King Arthur, The Lying Valet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Feb 1772 Drury Lane The Grecian Daughter, The Lying Valet No No No £207 9s 58% N/A
30 Apr 1772 Drury Lane The Grecian Daughter, The Lying Valet No No No £243 64% N/A
09 Jun 1772 Drury Lane Macbeth, The Lying Valet, The Sailors' Revels No No Yes £261 4s 100% N/A
07 Dec 1772 Drury Lane The Rehearsal, The Lying Valet, The Butterfly No No No £251 10s 55% N/A
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