Midas (1764)

Author
Kane O'Hara
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Ballad Opera/Burletta/Opera
Performance Medium
Musical
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
£31,456 1s 6d £22,890 10s (72.8%) £8,565 11s 6d (27.2%)
1732 - 1809
£31,456 1s 6d - (100%) £22,890 10s (72.8%) £8,565 11s 6d (27.2%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
225 194 31
1732 - 1809
225 194 31
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
07 Dec 1770 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Midas No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Dec 1770 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, Midas Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Mar 1771 Covent Garden Clementina, Midas No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 May 1771 Covent Garden Oroonoko, Midas, The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 May 1771 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Midas, Comic Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 Sep 1771 Covent Garden Hamlet, Midas No No No £207 6d 100% N/A
02 Oct 1771 Covent Garden Oroonoko, Midas No No No £222 1s 100% N/A
07 Oct 1771 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, Midas Yes No No £211 19s 100% N/A
14 Oct 1771 Covent Garden The Jealous Wife, Midas Yes No No £204 11s 6d 100% N/A
23 Oct 1771 Covent Garden Measure For Measure, Midas, The Jealous Woodcutters Yes No No £101 16s 44% N/A
25 Oct 1771 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Midas Yes No No £146 12s 6d 55% N/A
19 Dec 1771 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man, Midas Yes No No £115 14s 6d N/A N/A
28 Mar 1772 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Midas, The Cries of London, The Whim No No Yes £252 15s 6d 61% N/A
24 Sep 1773 Covent Garden The Clandestine Marriage, Midas No No No £171 11s 100% N/A
27 Sep 1773 Covent Garden George Barnwell, Midas No No No £176 6s 6d 100% N/A
04 Oct 1773 Covent Garden King Richard III, Midas No No No £207 1s 100% N/A
09 Oct 1773 Covent Garden The Hypocrite, Midas No No No £112 11s 6d 42% N/A
12 Oct 1773 Covent Garden The Hypocrite, Midas No No No £88 2s 38% N/A
15 Oct 1773 Covent Garden The West Indian, Midas No No No £137 4s 6d 52% N/A
18 Oct 1773 Covent Garden Hamlet, Midas No No No £146 18s 58% N/A
25 Oct 1773 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Midas No No No £140 11s 6d 47% N/A
08 Nov 1773 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, Midas No No No £175 15s 6d 41% N/A
15 Nov 1773 Covent Garden Cymbeline, Midas, The Highland Reel No No No £125 4s 6d 35% N/A
19 Nov 1773 Covent Garden She Stoops To Conquer, Midas No No No £134 5s 6d 44% N/A
22 Nov 1773 Covent Garden Hamlet, Midas Yes No No £124 3s 6d 34% N/A
21 Dec 1773 Covent Garden The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great, Midas No No Yes £163 6d N/A N/A
24 Jan 1774 Covent Garden King Henry II, Midas Yes No Yes £207 1s 6d N/A N/A
03 Feb 1774 Covent Garden The Man Of Business, Midas No No No £160 2s 6d 48% N/A
21 Feb 1774 Covent Garden The Man Of Business, Midas No No No £129 18s 6d 36% N/A
26 Feb 1774 Covent Garden The Fair Penitent, Midas No No No £192 6s 6d 44% N/A
10 Mar 1774 Covent Garden The Fair Penitent, Midas No No No £152 5s 6d 39% N/A
15 Mar 1774 Covent Garden King Henry IV Part I With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff, Midas No No Yes £267 2s 70% N/A
24 Mar 1774 Covent Garden The Man Of Business, Midas Yes No No £174 9s 6d 44% N/A
05 May 1774 Covent Garden King Henry II, Midas Yes No No £106 18s 45% N/A
26 May 1774 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Midas Yes No No £124 8s 84% N/A
13 Nov 1775 Covent Garden Alexander The Great, Midas No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Nov 1775 Covent Garden Edward And Eleonora, Midas, The Pilgrim No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Nov 1775 Covent Garden The Mans The Master, Midas No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Nov 1775 Covent Garden Cato, Midas Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Nov 1775 Covent Garden The Grecian Daughter, Midas No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1776 Covent Garden Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias, Midas, The Humours of the Newmarket Races No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 May 1776 Covent Garden As You Like It, Midas, Rural Merriment, Kate of Aberdeen No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
31 Mar 1777 Covent Garden The Grecian Daughter, True Blue, Midas No No Yes £276 13s 6d 63% N/A
02 Apr 1777 Covent Garden Sir Thomas Overbury, Midas, The Frolick No No No £133 1s 38% N/A
08 Apr 1777 Covent Garden Sir Thomas Overbury, True Blue, Midas No No Yes £220 17s 6d 47% N/A
10 Apr 1777 Covent Garden Know Your Own Mind, Midas, The Frolick No No Yes £204 10s 63% N/A
12 Apr 1777 Covent Garden Know Your Own Mind, Midas, Hunting Dance No No No £145 13s N/A N/A
21 Apr 1777 Covent Garden Tancred And Sigismunda, Midas, The Frolick No No No £193 6s 6d 71% N/A
02 May 1777 Covent Garden The School For Wives, The Clock Case or Female Curiosity, Midas, The Humours of Leixlip No No Yes £187 1s 60% N/A
29 Jan 1778 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Midas, The Cricketters No No No £151 11s 45% N/A
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