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
10 May 1792 Drury Lane The Rivals, Bon Ton No No Yes £394 18s 6d 51% N/A
07 Jun 1792 Drury Lane As You Like It, Bon Ton, Provision for the Convent or The Fryar's Frolick, The Martial Nymph, or The Conquered Scythian No No Yes £518 6s 100% N/A
15 Oct 1792 Drury Lane The Siege Of Belgrade, Bon Ton No No No £200 14s 43% N/A
28 Nov 1792 Drury Lane The Pirates, Bon Ton No No No £233 6d 54% N/A
31 Jan 1793 Drury Lane Cymon, Bon Ton No No No £211 15s 38% N/A
17 May 1794 Drury Lane The Jew, Bon Ton No No No £343 15s 6d 81% N/A
27 Jun 1794 Drury Lane The Children In The Wood, Bon Ton, Lodoiska No No No £179 4s 100% N/A
09 Feb 1795 Drury Lane The Cherokee, Bon Ton No No No £127 7s 6d 40% N/A
29 May 1795 Drury Lane The Constant Couple, Saint Andrews Festival or The Game at Goff, Bon Ton No No Yes £335 9s 69% N/A
06 Jun 1796 Drury Lane Mahmoud, Bon Ton No No No £226 7s 85% N/A
17 Oct 1796 Drury Lane The Gamester, Bon Ton No No No £291 19s 61% N/A
20 Nov 1797 Drury Lane The Siege Of Belgrade, Bon Ton, A Trip to the Nore No No No £190 19s 50% N/A
25 Sep 1798 Drury Lane King Richard The Third, Bon Ton No No No £327 8s 100% N/A
30 Mar 1799 Drury Lane The Stranger, Bon Ton, To Welcome Mirth and Harmless Glee, I Have a Silent Sorrow Here No No No £245 15s 56% N/A
04 May 1799 Drury Lane The Tempest Or The Enchanted Island, Bon Ton, Jerry Sneak in His Glory, Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite, As Burns the Charger, At The Peaceful Midnight Hour, The Town Crier No No Yes £390 8s 6d 45% N/A
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