The Rivals (1775)

Author
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
£30,197 7s 6d £4,977 19s (16.5%) £25,219 8s 6d (83.5%)
1732 - 1809
£30,197 7s 6d - (100%) £4,977 19s (16.5%) £25,219 8s 6d (83.5%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
137 33 104
1732 - 1809
137 33 104
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
15 Nov 1790 Drury Lane The Rivals, No Song No Supper No No No £268 18s 6d 58% N/A
22 Nov 1790 Drury Lane The Rivals, No Song No Supper No No No £218 13s 51% N/A
29 Nov 1790 Drury Lane The Rivals, No Song No Supper No No No £261 13s 6d 57% N/A
06 Dec 1790 Drury Lane The Rivals, No Song No Supper No No No £209 18s 6d 49% N/A
20 Dec 1790 Drury Lane The Rivals, No Song No Supper No No No £219 14s 6d 41% N/A
31 Jan 1791 Drury Lane The Rivals, The Fairy Favour No No No £231 7s 52% N/A
28 Feb 1791 Drury Lane The Rivals, No Song No Supper No Yes No £311 6s 6d 52% N/A
10 Mar 1791 Drury Lane The Rivals, No Song No Supper No No No £238 17s 6d 53% N/A
26 Apr 1791 Drury Lane The Rivals, The Devil to Pay, Mad Bess No No Yes £270 4s 42% N/A
24 May 1791 Drury Lane The Rivals, No Song No Supper, Minuet de la Cour, Gavot No No Yes £79 12s 6d N/A N/A
01 Oct 1791 Drury Lane Poor Old Drury, The Rivals, The Spoiled Child No No No £450 3s 100% N/A
15 Oct 1791 Drury Lane The Rivals, The Cave of Trophonius No No No £464 15s 100% N/A
29 Oct 1791 Drury Lane The Rivals, Comus No No No £298 9s 67% N/A
12 Nov 1791 Drury Lane The Rivals, The Doctor and the Apothecary No No No £250 7s 6d 54% N/A
07 Dec 1791 Drury Lane The Rivals, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £198 11s 33% N/A
19 Mar 1792 Drury Lane The Rivals, The American Heroine or Ingratitude Punished No No Yes £452 16s 42% N/A
13 Apr 1792 Drury Lane The Rivals, Richard Coeur de Lion No No Yes £384 16s 35% N/A
02 May 1792 Covent Garden The Rivals, The Irishman in London, Divertisement, If You Travel the Wide World All Over (A Planxty Descriptive of Ireland) No No Yes £361 9s 6d 23% N/A
10 May 1792 Drury Lane The Rivals, Bon Ton No No Yes £394 18s 6d 51% N/A
22 Sep 1792 Drury Lane The Rivals, No Song No Supper No No No £238 5s 6d 100% N/A
23 Oct 1792 Drury Lane The Rivals, The Prisoner No No No £276 17s 6d 100% N/A
07 Nov 1792 Covent Garden The Rivals, Two Strings to Your Bow No Yes No £419 1s 72% N/A
02 May 1793 Covent Garden The Rivals, The Soldier's Festival, Rosina No No Yes £212 18s 6d N/A N/A
13 May 1793 Drury Lane The Rivals, The Spoiled Child, Minuet No No Yes £491 15s 6d 40% N/A
31 May 1793 Covent Garden The Rivals, The Farmer, Hornpipe No No Yes £396 3s 6d 40% N/A
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