The Way to Keep Him (1760)

Author
Arthur Murphy
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Comedy
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
£22,033 3s 6d £4,415 11s 6d (20%) £17,617 12s (80%)
1732 - 1809
£22,033 3s 6d - (100%) £4,415 11s 6d (20%) £17,617 12s (80%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
161 35 126
1732 - 1809
161 35 126
Notes
Extended to 5 acts from 3 on 17610110, became MP
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
31 Mar 1785 Covent Garden The Way To Keep Him, Three Weeks after Marriage No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Apr 1785 Covent Garden The Way To Keep Him, Three Weeks after Marriage, The Mountaineers, or The Woodland Sports No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 May 1785 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, Who's the Dupe, Stand to Your Guns, Bright Phoebus has Mounted the Chariot of Day, Jack Thou Art a Toper, Toby's Brown Jug No No Yes £173 16s 6d N/A N/A
19 Oct 1785 Covent Garden The Way To Keep Him, Three Weeks after Marriage, Leap Year No No No £256 16s 100% N/A
26 Nov 1785 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, The Quaker No No No £232 2s 6d 56% N/A
29 Nov 1785 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, The Waterman No No No £234 1s 68% N/A
30 Nov 1785 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, The Romp, The Market Day No No No £262 3s 6d 59% N/A
06 Feb 1786 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, The Virgin Unmasked No Yes No £281 8s 6d 58% N/A
18 May 1786 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, The Romp No No Yes £211 6s 6d 68% N/A
15 Mar 1787 Covent Garden The Way To Keep Him, Love and War No No No £212 10s 50% N/A
23 Apr 1787 Covent Garden The Way To Keep Him, Love and War No No No £153 5s 58% N/A
21 May 1787 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, Box Lobby Loungers, The Distress'd Baronet No No Yes £98 6s N/A N/A
02 Oct 1787 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, Harlequin's Invasion No No No £190 9s 6d 100% N/A
16 Oct 1787 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, Comus No No No £150 11s 6d 100% N/A
09 Jan 1788 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, Harlequin Junior No No No £117 10s 6d 35% N/A
27 Mar 1788 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £199 16s 55% N/A
19 May 1788 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, The Lyar No No Yes £203 16s 43% N/A
15 Jan 1789 Covent Garden The Way To Keep Him, Marian No No No £221 4s 6d 62% N/A
11 Dec 1789 Covent Garden The Way To Keep Him, Bon Ton, Tambourine Dance No No No £232 10s 6d 57% N/A
15 Jan 1790 Covent Garden The Way To Keep Him, Harlequin's Chaplet No No No £227 17s 57% N/A
12 Feb 1790 Covent Garden The Way To Keep Him, Lovers' Quarrels, Tambourine Dance No No No £213 5s 49% N/A
01 Dec 1790 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, Don Juan No No No £118 18s 27% N/A
17 Oct 1793 Covent Garden The Way To Keep Him, The Farmer, The Drunken Swiss No No No £176 1s 100% N/A
08 Dec 1797 Covent Garden The Way To Keep Him, The Round Tower No No No £146 18s 6d 55% N/A
03 Jan 1798 Covent Garden The Way To Keep Him, Harlequin and Quixotte No No No £270 19s 53% N/A
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