Damon and Phillida (1729)

Author
Colley Cibber
Author
Henry Carey
Composer
Charles Dibdin (1768)
Composer
Henry Carey
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Ballad Opera/Burletta/Opera
Performance Medium
Musical
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
£5,453 7s £2,280 7s (41.8%) £3,173 (58.2%)
1732 - 1809
£5,453 7s - (100%) £2,280 7s (41.8%) £3,173 (58.2%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
140 94 46
1732 - 1809
140 94 46
Notes
Adapted into a comic opera by Dibdin in 1768.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
26 Nov 1768 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Damon and Phillida No No No £227 19s 6d N/A N/A
21 Dec 1768 Drury Lane Zingis, Damon and Phillida No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Dec 1768 Drury Lane The Suspicious Husband, Damon and Phillida No No No Unknown N/A N/A
31 Dec 1768 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Damon and Phillida, New Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Feb 1769 Drury Lane Hamlet, Damon and Phillida No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Feb 1769 Covent Garden The Sister, Damon and Phillida, The Reel No No No £234 5s N/A N/A
23 Feb 1769 Drury Lane The Fatal Discovery, Damon and Phillida No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Oct 1769 Covent Garden Man And Wife Or The Shakespeare Jubilee, Damon and Phillida No No No £224 10s N/A N/A
09 Oct 1769 Covent Garden Man And Wife, Damon and Phillida, Pageant exhibiting the characters of Shakespeare, Representation of the Amphitheatre at Stratford upon Avon, with Masquerade, The Allemande No No No £210 2s 6d N/A N/A
24 Feb 1770 Covent Garden Timanthes, Damon and Phillida, Concert on Hautboy No No No £227 6s 6d N/A N/A
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