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 %
05 May 1778 Covent Garden The British Heroine, Midas No No Yes £188 15s 6d 65% N/A
27 Mar 1779 Covent Garden Jane Shore, Midas, The Burgomaster No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 Apr 1779 Covent Garden The Fair Penitent, True Blue, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 Apr 1779 Covent Garden Venice Preserved, Midas No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Apr 1779 Covent Garden Cymbeline, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 May 1779 Covent Garden The Wives Revenged, Alexander the Great, The Farmer's Return from London, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 May 1779 Covent Garden All In The Wrong, The Farmer's Return from London, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Sep 1779 Covent Garden As You Like It, Midas, The Dockyard, Dance of Forresters No No No £142 19s 6d 100% N/A
04 Oct 1779 Covent Garden The Fair Penitent, Midas, The Dockyard No No No £216 12s 100% N/A
13 Oct 1779 Covent Garden The Bondman, Midas, The Shepherds Wedding No No No £195 1s 6d 100% N/A
23 Oct 1779 Covent Garden The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff, Midas No No No £133 15s 58% N/A
02 Apr 1781 Covent Garden King Charles The First, True Blue, Midas, Dance of Sailors No No Yes £205 19s 54% N/A
23 Apr 1781 Covent Garden Jane Shore, A Fete, Midas No No Yes £212 9s 45% N/A
24 May 1781 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Midas No No No £89 6s 70% N/A
19 Oct 1781 Covent Garden Duplicity, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 Feb 1782 Covent Garden Which Is The Man?, The Dramatic Puffers, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Feb 1782 Covent Garden Which Is The Man?, The Dramatic Puffers, Midas No No No £212 18s 6d 68% N/A
26 Apr 1784 Covent Garden Epicoene Or The Silent Woman, Midas, A Description of the Curiosities of the Tower of London, Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row No No Yes £349 15s 6d 71% N/A
28 Apr 1784 Covent Garden Love In A Village, Midas, Statute Dance, The Poney Races No No Yes £195 16s 6d 47% N/A
18 May 1784 Covent Garden More Ways Than One, Midas, Damon and Musidora, The Huntsman's sweet Hollo No No Yes £142 13s 69% N/A
18 Oct 1784 Covent Garden Cymbeline, Midas, Pastoral Sports No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Dec 1784 Covent Garden Barbarossa, Midas No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Dec 1784 Covent Garden The Follies Of A Day, Midas No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Mar 1785 Covent Garden Robin Hood, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Mar 1785 Covent Garden The Follies Of A Day, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 May 1785 Covent Garden Othello, Midas, Leap Year, Moderation and Alteration No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Nov 1785 Covent Garden The Grecian Daughter, Midas No No No £269 12s 100% N/A
28 Nov 1785 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Midas, Solemn Dirge No No No £204 11s 55% N/A
21 Apr 1786 Covent Garden Fontainbleau, Midas, Diana's Chase, How Sweet the Love that Meets Return No No Yes £257 2s 38% N/A
05 Dec 1786 Covent Garden He Would Be A Soldier, Midas No No Yes £168 N/A N/A
30 May 1787 Covent Garden The Mourning Bride, Midas No No Yes £265 5s 6d 51% N/A
24 Sep 1787 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Midas, Solemn Dirge No No No £220 8s 6d 100% N/A
15 May 1788 Covent Garden The Foundling, Midas, The Merry Sailors No No Yes £317 16s 6d 15% N/A
27 May 1788 Covent Garden The Mourning Bride, Midas No No Yes £266 6s 6d 41% N/A
17 Sep 1788 Covent Garden The West Indian, Midas No No No £193 10s 6d 100% N/A
16 Feb 1789 Covent Garden The Toy, Midas, Mirth by Moonshine No No No £224 16s 6d 56% N/A
28 Apr 1789 Covent Garden Alexander The Great, Midas, Fortune's Favor, or The Lovers Lottery No No Yes £228 4s 6d 51% N/A
11 May 1789 Covent Garden A School For Widows, Midas No No Yes £140 4s 6d N/A N/A
23 Oct 1789 Covent Garden King Richard The Third, Midas No No No £197 1s 100% N/A
06 May 1791 Covent Garden The Widow Of Malabar, Midas, The Dreamer Awake or The Pugilist Matched, Say Bonny Lass, Highland Lad, Highland Lassie, The Musical Courtship No No Yes £318 4s 61% N/A
07 Nov 1794 Covent Garden The Rage, Midas No No No £208 11s 6d 45% N/A
10 Nov 1794 Covent Garden Cymbeline, Midas No No No £210 16s 37% N/A
13 Feb 1795 Covent Garden The Mysteries Of The Castle, Midas No No No £62 19s 6d 19% N/A
14 Nov 1795 Covent Garden Speculation, Midas, The Bouquet No No No £212 16s 6d 48% N/A
25 Oct 1802 Drury Lane Mary Queen of Scots, Midas No No No £305 9s 54% N/A
26 Oct 1802 Drury Lane The Merry Wives of Windsor, Midas No No No £421 13s 58% N/A
27 Oct 1802 Drury Lane The Suspicious Husband, Midas No No No £233 10s 42% N/A
28 Oct 1802 Drury Lane The Brothers, Midas No No No £209 1s 45% N/A
29 Oct 1802 Drury Lane The Jealous Wife, Midas No No No £225 17s 6d 54% N/A
30 Oct 1802 Drury Lane King Henry the Fourth, Midas No No No £352 50% N/A
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