The School for Wives (1773)

Author
Hugh Kelly
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
£10,129 19s £4,656 15s 6d (46%) £5,473 3s 6d (54%)
1732 - 1809
£10,129 19s - (100%) £4,656 15s 6d (46%) £5,473 3s 6d (54%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
44 16 28
1732 - 1809
44 16 28
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
11 May 1775 Drury Lane The School For Wives, The Padlock, The Sailors' Revels No No Yes £128 8s N/A N/A
17 Apr 1776 Drury Lane The School For Wives, Bon Ton, The Savage Hunters No No Yes £57 4s 6d N/A 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
11 May 1782 Covent Garden The School For Wives, The Touchstone, Humours of Newmarket, Tally Ho!, The Poney Races No No Yes £228 10s 55% N/A
16 Apr 1787 Covent Garden The School For Wives, Annette and Lubin, The Stage Coach or Inn in an Uproar, Mother Shipton's Review of the Audience No No Yes £324 1s 48% N/A
16 May 1787 Covent Garden The School For Wives, Hob in the Well, The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd No No Yes £321 3s 6d 44% N/A
15 Mar 1788 Covent Garden The School For Wives, The Midnight Hour, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £242 16s 6d 42% N/A
28 Apr 1788 Drury Lane The School For Wives, Comus No No Yes £173 34% N/A
28 Mar 1789 Covent Garden The School For Wives, The Maid of the Oaks No No Yes £267 12s N/A N/A
20 Apr 1790 Covent Garden The School For Wives, The Poor Soldier, Stand to Your Guns, My Hearts of Oak, The Tobacco Box; Or, The Soldier's Farewell No No Yes £210 8s 6d 57% N/A
18 May 1791 Covent Garden The School For Wives, The Union or St Andrew's Day, Highland Fling, Black-Eyed Susan, The Highland Competition Prize No No Yes £354 14s 6d N/A N/A
22 Jan 1794 Covent Garden The School For Wives, Harlequin And Faustus No Yes No £454 2s 100% N/A
13 May 1794 Covent Garden The School For Wives, The Packet Boat or A Peep behind the Veil, British Fortitude And Hibernian Friendship, A Plague on both your Houses or A Peep into New Drury and Covent Garden Theatres No No Yes £423 5s 25% N/A
13 Jun 1794 Covent Garden The School For Wives, A Loyal Effusion, Harlequin And Faustus Yes No Yes £357 10s 25% N/A
05 Oct 1796 Covent Garden The School For Wives, Rosina No No No £252 10s 6d 100% N/A
16 Dec 1796 Covent Garden The School For Wives, Cymon No No No £79 12s 6d 28% N/A
22 May 1797 Covent Garden The Village Fete, The School for Wives, Oscar and Malvina, The Sea Storm, Imitations, Black Ey'd Susan, Cease Rude Boreas Blust'ring Railer, Come Every Jovial Fellow, O Ever in My Bosom Live No No Yes £326 6d 30% N/A
10 May 1800 Covent Garden The School For Wives, The Honest Thieves, The Soldier's Festival, Black Ey'd Susan, The Bull and Boat; or, Law! Law! Law!, The Snug Little Island, Whims & Fancies; or, Patches from Harlequin's Jacket No No Yes £206 15s 30% N/A
04 Jun 1800 Covent Garden The School For Wives, The Maid of the Mill No No Yes £420 13s 24% N/A
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