The Upholsterer; or, What News? (1758)

Author
Arthur Murphy
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
£13,666 4s £11,344 5s (83%) £2,321 19s (17%)
1732 - 1809
£13,666 4s - (100%) £11,344 5s (83%) £2,321 19s (17%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
156 140 16
1732 - 1809
156 140 16
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
21 Dec 1767 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, The Upholsterer, The Garland No No Yes £138 9s N/A N/A
03 Feb 1768 Covent Garden The Good Natured Man, The Upholsterer No No No £203 14s N/A N/A
04 Feb 1768 Covent Garden The Good Natured Man, The Upholsterer, The Irish Lilt, The Merry Sailors No Yes No £236 4s N/A N/A
16 Feb 1768 Covent Garden Macbeth, The Upholsterer No No No £225 2s N/A N/A
01 Mar 1768 Covent Garden Lionel And Clarissa, The Upholsterer, The Provenzales No No Yes £219 16s 6d N/A N/A
19 Mar 1768 Covent Garden Cymbeline, The Upholsterer, The Highland Reel Yes No Yes £268 10s 6d N/A N/A
10 May 1768 Covent Garden Zara, The Upholsterer, The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe No No Yes £235 14s N/A N/A
25 May 1768 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Upholsterer, The Wapping Landlady No No Yes £153 11s 6d N/A N/A
12 Oct 1768 Covent Garden The Fair Penitent, The Upholsterer, The Royal Garland No No No £142 18s N/A N/A
01 Nov 1768 Covent Garden Every Man In His Humour, The Upholsterer, The Lamplighters No No No £129 10s N/A N/A
19 Nov 1768 Covent Garden Zara, The Upholsterer, The Merry Sailors No No No £159 7s 6d N/A N/A
06 Dec 1768 Covent Garden Cyrus, The Upholsterer No No Yes £201 17s N/A N/A
23 Dec 1768 Covent Garden Macbeth, The Upholsterer Yes No No £198 17s 6d N/A N/A
02 Feb 1769 Covent Garden Tom Jones, The Upholsterer, The Lamplighters No No Yes £151 5s N/A N/A
06 Mar 1769 Covent Garden Macbeth, The Upholsterer Yes No No £230 13s 6d N/A N/A
18 Mar 1769 Covent Garden Artaxerxes, The Upholsterer, The Tartars No No Yes £245 7s 6d N/A N/A
03 Apr 1769 Covent Garden Macbeth, The Upholsterer, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £191 5s N/A N/A
07 Apr 1769 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Upholsterer, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £211 9s N/A N/A
15 Apr 1769 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, The Upholsterer, The Merry Sailors No No Yes £221 13s 6d N/A N/A
22 Apr 1769 Covent Garden The Clandestine Marriage, The Upholsterer, Hornpipe, The Lamplighters No No Yes £140 5s 6d N/A N/A
08 May 1769 Covent Garden Cymbeline, The Upholsterer, The Merry Sailors No No Yes £158 4s N/A N/A
18 May 1769 Covent Garden King Richard III, The Upholsterer, The Merry Sailors No No Yes £301 4s N/A N/A
06 Oct 1769 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, The Upholsterer Yes No No £82 2s N/A N/A
21 Oct 1769 Covent Garden Man And Wife, The Upholsterer, Pageant exhibiting the characters of Shakespeare, Concerto on hautboy, Representation of the Amphitheatre at Stratford upon Avon, with Masquerade, The Allemande No No No £135 8s N/A N/A
08 Dec 1769 Covent Garden The Brothers, The Upholsterer, The Merry Sailors No No Yes £128 9s 6d N/A N/A
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