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 %
19 Jan 1770 Covent Garden Cymbeline, The Upholsterer, The Whim No No No £250 6d N/A N/A
13 Mar 1770 Covent Garden Timanthes, The Upholsterer, Concerto on hautboy No No Yes £173 11s 6d N/A N/A
27 Mar 1770 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Upholsterer, The Whim No No Yes £207 5s 6d N/A N/A
23 Apr 1770 Covent Garden Macbeth, The Upholsterer, The Reel No No Yes £129 15s 6d N/A N/A
04 May 1770 Covent Garden Artaxerxes, The Upholsterer, The Dutch Dance, Allemande, The Old Ground Young Yes No Yes £219 16s 6d N/A N/A
10 Apr 1771 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, True Blue, The Upholsterer No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 Nov 1771 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, The Upholsterer No No No £127 9s 34% N/A
10 Dec 1771 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Upholsterer No No No £146 7s 6d 47% N/A
13 Dec 1771 Covent Garden Zobeide, The Upholsterer No No Yes £149 7s 6d N/A N/A
24 Jan 1772 Covent Garden Zobeide, The Upholsterer, True Blue No No Yes £130 3s N/A N/A
21 Mar 1772 Drury Lane The Constant Couple, The Upholsterer, The Amusements of Strasburgh No No Yes £297 4s 54% N/A
04 May 1772 Covent Garden The Winter's Tale As Written By Shakespeare, The Upholsterer Yes No Yes £129 6s 50% N/A
26 May 1772 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Upholsterer, The Lilt No No Yes £244 18s 6d 40% N/A
09 Oct 1772 Covent Garden Love In A Village, The Upholsterer, Fingalian Dance, Double Hornpipe No No No £219 4s 100% N/A
24 Nov 1772 Covent Garden Elfrida, The Upholsterer, The Tartars Yes No No £168 13s 59% N/A
13 Mar 1773 Covent Garden Alzuma, The Upholsterer No No Yes £150 10s N/A N/A
04 May 1773 Covent Garden Julius Caesar, The Upholsterer, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £123 18s 59% N/A
01 Oct 1773 Covent Garden Love In A Village, The Upholsterer, Fingalian Dance, Double Hornpipe No No No £151 10s 100% N/A
30 Oct 1773 Covent Garden Macbeth, The Upholsterer No No No £152 11s 6d 39% N/A
02 Feb 1774 Covent Garden The Man Of Business, The Upholsterer, The Highland Reel No No Yes £160 4s N/A N/A
22 Mar 1774 Covent Garden Don Sebastian King Of Portugal, The Upholsterer, The Old Ground Young No No Yes £144 6s 6d 57% N/A
25 Apr 1774 Covent Garden King Henry VIII, The Upholsterer, The Frolick No No Yes £116 7s 40% N/A
17 May 1774 Covent Garden The West Indian, The Upholsterer, Comic Dance No No Yes £249 1s 33% N/A
29 Nov 1774 Covent Garden Artaxerxes, The Upholsterer, The Reel, The Vintage Festival No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Feb 1775 Covent Garden Phaedra And Hippolitus, The Upholsterer, Rural Merriment No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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