Tancred and Sigismunda (1745)

Author
James Thomson
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Tragedy
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
£13,748 4s 7d £5,856 11s (42.6%) £7,891 13s 7d (57.4%)
1732 - 1809
£13,748 4s 7d - (100%) £5,856 11s (42.6%) £7,891 13s 7d (57.4%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
89 32 57
1732 - 1809
89 32 57
Notes
Inspired by Boccaccio's The Decameron.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
23 Apr 1785 Drury Lane Tancred And Sigismunda, Comus No No Yes £199 10s 6d N/A N/A
06 Oct 1785 Drury Lane Tancred And Sigismunda, Bon Ton; or, Hight Life above Stairs No No No £282 3s 6d 100% N/A
05 Oct 1786 Drury Lane Tancred And Sigismunda, The Critic No Yes No £319 6d 100% N/A
01 Dec 1788 Drury Lane Tancred And Sigismunda, The Pannel No No No £178 12s 6d 49% N/A
10 Jan 1789 Covent Garden Tancred And Sigismunda, Aladin No No No £217 1s 6d 53% N/A
16 Jan 1789 Covent Garden Tancred And Sigismunda, Aladin No No No £203 47% N/A
21 Dec 1791 Covent Garden Tancred And Sigismunda, Blue Beard or The Flight of Harlequin No No No £279 13s 56% N/A
11 Feb 1805 Covent Garden Tancred and Sigismunda, The Padlock No No Yes £505 19s 54% N/A
23 Feb 1805 Drury Lane Tancred and Sigismunda, The Apprentice No No No £603 13s 6d 74% N/A
26 Feb 1805 Drury Lane Tancred and Sigismunda, Bon Ton No No No £619 6d 72% N/A
06 May 1805 Covent Garden Tancred and Sigismunda, The Prisoner at Large No No No £454 1s 71% N/A
10 Jan 1806 Covent Garden Tancred & Sigismunda, Harlequin's Magnet No No No £469 6s 6d 65% N/A
24 Jan 1806 Covent Garden Tancred and Sigismunda, Harlequin's Magnet; or, The Scandinavian Sorcerer No No No £351 8s 6d 45% N/A
17 May 1806 Drury Lane Tancred & Sigismunda, Miss in her Teens No No Yes £440 16s 57% N/A
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