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 %
02 Jan 1779 Drury Lane Love For Love, Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs No No No £139 15s 6d N/A N/A
19 Apr 1780 Drury Lane A Trip To Scarborough, Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs No No Yes £175 18s 36% N/A
20 Oct 1780 Drury Lane As You Like It, Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs, The Force of Love No No No £90 12s 34% N/A
26 Oct 1780 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, Bon Ton, The Force of Love No No No £157 16s 6d 51% N/A
02 Nov 1780 Drury Lane The Rivals, Bon Ton, The Irish Fair No No No £127 4s 34% N/A
16 Nov 1780 Drury Lane Artaxerxes, Bon Ton No No No £179 7s 6d 40% N/A
20 Nov 1780 Drury Lane The Miser, Bon Ton, The Force of Love No Yes No £262 7s 6d 59% N/A
18 Jan 1781 Drury Lane The Lord Of The Manor, Bon Ton No No No £107 12s 6d 35% N/A
26 Mar 1781 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Bon Ton, The Countryman Deceiv'd No No Yes £269 4s 6d 60% N/A
25 Apr 1781 Drury Lane The Hypocrite, A Fete, Bon Ton No No Yes £241 7s 6d 53% N/A
30 Apr 1781 Drury Lane The Lord Of The Manor, Bon Ton, The Dutch Quaker No No Yes £132 6d 34% N/A
06 Oct 1781 Drury Lane The Lord Of The Manor, Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs, The Frenchman in the Dairy No No No £197 9s 6d 100% N/A
15 Dec 1781 Drury Lane The Carnival Of Venice, Bon Ton No No Yes £191 19s 6d N/A N/A
08 Apr 1782 Drury Lane The Lord Of The Manor, Linco's Travels, Bon Ton, Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £111 11s N/A N/A
01 Oct 1782 Drury Lane Othello, Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs No No No £152 6d 100% N/A
17 Oct 1782 Drury Lane As You Like It, Bon Ton, Devonshire Minuet No No No £85 17s 31% N/A
14 Nov 1782 Drury Lane Isabella, Bon Ton No No No £249 2s 6d 59% N/A
27 Nov 1782 Drury Lane Grecian Daughter, Bon Ton No No No £246 4s 45% N/A
14 Dec 1782 Drury Lane Venice Preserved, Bon Ton, Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £335 5s 44% N/A
18 Feb 1783 Drury Lane Cymbeline, Bon Ton, Minuet de la Cour No No No £174 11s 6d 60% N/A
01 Mar 1783 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Bon Ton, Highland Reel, The Devonshire Minuet No No No £113 5s 6d 32% N/A
03 Apr 1783 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Bon Ton, Highland Reel No No Yes £278 3s 31% N/A
24 Apr 1783 Drury Lane The Revenge, Bon Ton No No Yes £258 6s 26% N/A
29 Apr 1783 Drury Lane The City Madam, Bon Ton, The Irish Fair No No Yes £143 18s 6d N/A N/A
26 Oct 1784 Drury Lane As You Like It, Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs, The Sportsmen's Return No No No £129 10s N/A N/A
09 Nov 1784 Drury Lane The Tempest, Bon Ton, Dance of Spirits, Dance of Fantastic Spirits No No No £162 11s N/A N/A
17 Nov 1784 Drury Lane Zara, Bon Ton No Yes No £289 18s N/A N/A
26 Nov 1784 Drury Lane Cymon, Bon Ton, Dance of Cupids, Dance of Daemons No No No £125 2s 6d N/A N/A
05 Jan 1785 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Bon Ton, The Sportsmen's Return No No No £140 12s N/A N/A
29 Jan 1785 Drury Lane The Maid Of Honour, Bon Ton No No No £192 5s N/A N/A
15 Mar 1785 Drury Lane Macbeth, Bon Ton No No Yes £287 17s 6d N/A N/A
07 Apr 1785 Drury Lane Jane Shore, Bon Ton No No Yes £296 5s 6d N/A N/A
25 Apr 1785 Drury Lane The Double Gallant Or The Sick Lady's Cure, The Toy Shop, Bon Ton, Stand to Your Guns, My Hearts of Oak, The History of John Gilpin, the Linen Draper No No Yes £218 2s 6d N/A N/A
10 May 1785 Drury Lane Macbeth, Bon Ton No No Yes £241 10s N/A N/A
06 Oct 1785 Drury Lane Tancred And Sigismunda, Bon Ton; or, Hight Life above Stairs No No No £282 3s 6d 100% N/A
16 Mar 1786 Drury Lane A Trip To Scarborough, Bon Ton No No No £163 19s 6d 49% N/A
01 May 1786 Drury Lane Twelfth Night, Bon Ton No No Yes £307 5s 33% N/A
09 May 1786 Drury Lane Twelfth Night, The Sons of Anacreon, Bon Ton No No Yes £283 6s 35% N/A
22 May 1786 Drury Lane A Trip To Scarborough, Bon Ton, The Lucky Return, Hunting Song No No Yes £216 5s 6d 34% N/A
12 Oct 1786 Drury Lane Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage, Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs, Epithalamium No No No £231 5s 6d 48% N/A
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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