Bon Ton; or High Life Above Stairs (1775)

Author
David Garrick
Work Type
Afterpiece
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
£30,280 2s 6d £1,217 6s (4%) £29,062 16s 6d (96%)
1732 - 1809
£30,280 2s 6d - (100%) £1,217 6s (4%) £29,062 16s 6d (96%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
138 5 133
1732 - 1809
138 5 133
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
13 Nov 1786 Drury Lane Venice Preserved, Bon Ton No No No £262 6s 52% N/A
09 Dec 1786 Drury Lane Venice Preserved, Bon Ton No No No £232 10s 55% N/A
07 May 1787 Drury Lane Jane Shore, Bon Ton No No Yes £337 16s 6d 42% N/A
18 May 1787 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Bon Ton, Hornpipe, Primroses Deck the Bank's Green Side, Bright Phoebus has Mounted the Chariot of Day No No Yes £293 13s 6d 40% N/A
24 May 1787 Drury Lane Cymbeline, Bon Ton, La Soiree Provencalle, Hark! The Lark At Heav'n's Gate Sing No No Yes £263 7s 49% N/A
06 Nov 1787 Drury Lane As You Like It, Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs No No No £174 5s 6d 45% N/A
26 Nov 1787 Drury Lane The New Peerage, Bon Ton No No Yes £108 9s N/A N/A
10 Mar 1788 Drury Lane Macbeth, Bon Ton, The Lucky Return No No Yes £363 19s 6d 43% N/A
28 Mar 1788 Drury Lane Love In The East, Bon Ton No No No £103 12s 39% N/A
20 Nov 1789 Covent Garden As You Like It, Bon Ton, Divertissement, Tamborine Dance No No No £241 19s 6d 61% N/A
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