The Deserter (1773)

Composer
Charles Dibdin
Composer
Pierre Monsigny
Composer
François-André Danican Philidor
Author
Charles Dibdin
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
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
£30,415 16s £2,875 2s 6d (9.5%) £27,540 13s 6d (90.5%)
1732 - 1809
£30,415 16s - (100%) £2,875 2s 6d (9.5%) £27,540 13s 6d (90.5%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
172 21 151
1732 - 1809
172 21 151
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
21 May 1788 Drury Lane The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Deserter No No Yes £297 12s 6d 39% N/A
04 Jun 1788 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Deserter No No Yes £189 10s 38% N/A
29 Sep 1788 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, The Deserter, Solemn Dirge No No No £291 18s 6d 100% N/A
01 Nov 1788 Drury Lane The Gamester, The Deserter No No No £228 1s 52% N/A
21 Nov 1788 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Deserter No No No £153 13s 56% N/A
02 Dec 1788 Drury Lane King Henry The Eighth, The Deserter No No No £221 10s 6d 58% N/A
12 Dec 1788 Drury Lane The Winter's Tale, The Deserter, Jamie's Return, Sheep-Shearing Song No No No £60 10s 6d 23% N/A
06 Jan 1789 Drury Lane The Mourning Bride, The Deserter No No No £121 5s 42% N/A
10 Feb 1789 Drury Lane Coriolanus, The Deserter No No No £201 11s 6d 50% N/A
17 Mar 1789 Drury Lane The Regent, The Deserter No No Yes £160 17s N/A N/A
28 Mar 1789 Drury Lane Mary Queen Of Scots, The Deserter No No Yes £265 15s N/A N/A
28 May 1789 Covent Garden The Deserter, Barataria, Don Juan or The Libertine Destroyed No No Yes £224 11s 66% N/A
02 Jun 1789 Drury Lane The Jealous Wife, The Deserter No No Yes £166 19s 17% N/A
09 Jun 1789 Drury Lane The Winter's Tale, The Deserter, Highland Reel, The Sheepshearing Song No No Yes £257 2s 6d 25% N/A
15 Oct 1789 Drury Lane Know Your Own Mind, The Deserter No No No £170 6d 100% N/A
29 Oct 1789 Drury Lane Know Your Own Mind, The Deserter No No No £182 14s 6d 100% N/A
07 May 1790 Drury Lane Know Your Own Mind, The Toy Shop, The Deserter, Poor Jack; Or, the Sweet Little Cherub No No Yes £281 3s 43% N/A
15 Sep 1790 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Deserter No No No £139 5s 100% N/A
30 Nov 1790 Drury Lane Better Late Than Never, The Deserter No No No £164 7s 59% N/A
20 May 1791 Drury Lane The Suspicious Husband, The Deserter, La Fete Marine, La Cossaque et Le Pas Russe No No Yes £41 14s N/A N/A
25 Oct 1791 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Deserter No No No £269 12s 100% N/A
08 Nov 1791 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Deserter No No No £179 12s 6d N/A N/A
06 Mar 1792 Drury Lane King Lear, The Deserter No No No £350 9s 6d 67% N/A
20 Mar 1792 Drury Lane Macbeth, The Deserter No No No £352 57% N/A
14 Apr 1792 Drury Lane Venice Preserved, The Deserter No No No £296 6s 6d 65% N/A
22 May 1792 Covent Garden Lionel And Clarissa, The Deserter, Bravura Song, Concerto on grand pianoforte, Se Ti Perdo No No Yes £320 4s 6d 62% N/A
18 Oct 1793 Covent Garden The Dramatist Or Stop Him Who Can, The Deserter, Dermot and Kathlane, or The Irish Wedding No No No £218 12s 6d 100% N/A
29 May 1794 Covent Garden The Deserter, The Siege Of Meaux, Barnaby Brittle No No Yes £88 13s N/A N/A
20 May 1795 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Alexander the Great, The Deserter No No Yes £376 19s 61% N/A
22 May 1795 Drury Lane First Love, No Song No Supper, The Deserter No No Yes £253 4s 6d 63% N/A
25 Sep 1795 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, The Deserter No No No £248 3s 6d 100% N/A
11 May 1796 Drury Lane The Smugglers, The Virgin Unmasked, The Deserter, My Faith and Truth, Listen to the Voice of Love No No Yes £292 4s 43% N/A
22 Sep 1796 Drury Lane Jane Shore, The Deserter No No No £407 5s 100% N/A
15 Oct 1796 Drury Lane Love For Love, The Deserter No No No £302 8s 100% N/A
01 Feb 1797 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Deserter, The Scotch Ghost No No No £227 10s 6d 34% N/A
23 Sep 1797 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Deserter No No No £277 13s 100% N/A
28 Dec 1797 Drury Lane The Castle spectre, The Deserter No No No £295 18s 6d 51% N/A
13 Jan 1798 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Deserter No No No £138 13s 6d 28% N/A
25 Apr 1799 Drury Lane As You Like It, Wits Last Stake, The Deserter, Bucks Have at Ye All No No Yes £534 15s 6d 49% N/A
27 Apr 1799 Drury Lane The Inconstant, The Deserter, Military Manoeuvres, The Dear March, and the Ceremony used in Shooting a Deserter No No No £205 3s 56% N/A
16 May 1799 Drury Lane The Castle spectre, The Deserter, Collins's Ode on the Passions No No Yes £613 6d 47% N/A
24 Sep 1799 Drury Lane The Wheel Of Fortune, The Deserter, Military Manoeuvres, The Dear March, and the Ceremony used in Shooting a Deserter No No No £329 4s 100% N/A
23 Oct 1799 Drury Lane The Castle spectre, The Deserter No No No £235 17s 57% N/A
02 Nov 1799 Drury Lane The Jew, The Deserter No No No £151 4s 35% N/A
21 Nov 1799 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Deserter No No No £122 8s 6d 30% N/A
30 Nov 1799 Drury Lane The Wheel Of Fortune, The Deserter No No No £198 16s 6d 38% N/A
14 Dec 1799 Drury Lane The East Indian, The Deserter No No No £164 1s 46% N/A
21 Apr 1800 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Deserter No No No £245 19s 53% N/A
21 May 1800 Drury Lane She Stoops To Conquer, The Deserter, The Scotch Ghost, A Trial of Skill in the Exercise of the Austrian and Highland Broadsword No No Yes £154 6s N/A N/A
27 Sep 1800 Drury Lane Isabella; or, The Fatal Marriage, The Deserter No No No £402 16s 100% N/A
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