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 %
11 Dec 1789 Covent Garden The Way To Keep Him, Bon Ton, Tambourine Dance No No No £232 10s 6d 57% N/A
11 Feb 1790 Covent Garden The Sheep Shearing Or Florizel And Perdita, Lovers' Quarrels, Bon Ton, Tamborine Dance, Come Come My Good Shepherds, Get You Hence No No Yes £321 2s 6d 57% N/A
01 May 1790 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, Bon Ton, Tambourine Dance No No No £147 19s 6d 58% N/A
08 May 1790 Covent Garden The Crusade, Bon Ton No No No £273 14s 86% N/A
02 Nov 1790 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs No No No £195 8s 60% N/A
28 Jan 1791 Drury Lane The Siege Of Belgrade, Bon Ton No No No £312 17s 62% N/A
15 Mar 1791 Drury Lane The Siege Of Belgrade, Bon Ton No No No £241 6s 6d 54% N/A
07 May 1791 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, Bon Ton No No Yes £226 12s 6d N/A N/A
10 Oct 1791 Drury Lane Poor Old Drury, A Trip to Scarborough, Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs No No No £242 7s 57% N/A
13 Mar 1792 Drury Lane Mary Queen Of Scots, Bon Ton No No No £308 51% N/A
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