The West Indian (1771)

Author
Richard Cumberland
Work Type
Mainpiece
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
£26,933 17s £5,833 14s 6d (21.7%) £21,100 2s 6d (78.3%)
1732 - 1809
£26,933 17s - (100%) £5,833 14s 6d (21.7%) £21,100 2s 6d (78.3%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
171 36 135
1732 - 1809
171 36 135
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
29 Jan 1805 Drury Lane The West Indian, A House to be Sold, Old Harlequin's Fire-side No No No £258 10s 32% N/A
27 Apr 1805 Drury Lane The West Indian, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £163 6s 6d 27% N/A
27 May 1805 Drury Lane The West Indian, Youth, Love, and Folly, I was the Boy For Bewitching Them, Donny-Brook Fair, Or, The Sprig of Shillelagh and Shamrock So Green, The Birth, Parentage, Etc. of Dennis Bulgruddery No No Yes £528 1s 42% N/A
20 Nov 1805 Drury Lane The West Indian, The Weathercock No No No £208 9s 49% N/A
29 Nov 1805 Drury Lane The West Indian, The Soldier's Return No No No £115 1s 6d 34% N/A
22 Feb 1806 Drury Lane The West Indian, Of Age Tomorrow No No No £195 10s 6d 40% N/A
14 May 1806 Drury Lane The West Indian, Paul and Virginia, Crazy Jane, Minuet de la Cour, Gavotte No No Yes £376 12s 44% N/A
25 Sep 1806 Drury Lane The West-Indian, The Sprig of Shellelagh and Shamrock So Green, The Fair Circassian, The Virgin Unmasked No No No £311 12s 6d 100% N/A
22 Oct 1806 Drury Lane The West Indian, The Sprig of Shillelagh and Shamrock So Green, The Forty Thieves No No No £136 11s 6d 39% N/A
11 Dec 1806 Drury Lane West Indian, Tekeli No No No £230 2s 52% N/A
30 Mar 1807 Drury Lane The West Indian, Tekeli No No No £217 12s 6d 35% N/A
09 Jun 1807 Drury Lane The West-Indian, The Sprig of Shillelagh and Shamrock So Green, Ballet, A House to be Sold, The Tough Wooden Walls of Old England, In Search of a Wife, The Race Horse No No Yes £336 11s 27% N/A
19 Sep 1807 Drury Lane The West Indian, The Sprig of Shillelagh and Shamrock So Green, No Song No Supper No No No £290 19s 6d 100% N/A
26 Oct 1807 Drury Lane The West Indian, The Forty Thieves No No No £284 15s 6d N/A N/A
21 Dec 1807 Drury Lane The West-Indian, Tekeli No No No £195 12s N/A N/A
23 Dec 1807 Covent Garden The West Indian, The Blind Boy No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Mar 1808 Drury Lane The West Indian, The Sprig of Shillelah and Shamrock So Green, Rosina No No No £242 12s N/A N/A
02 Jun 1808 Drury Lane The West Indian, Blue Devils, Ella Rosenberg No No No £87 13s N/A N/A
18 Oct 1808 Drury Lane West Indian, Blue Beard No No No £332 1s 100% N/A
14 Apr 1809 Drury Lane West Indian, Of Age Tomorrow No No No £127 10s 6d 40% N/A
29 May 1809 Drury Lane West Indian, Love in a Tub, Irishman in Italy No No Yes £329 6s 6d 38% N/A
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