The School for Scandal (1777)

Author
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Work Type
Mainpiece
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
£66,271 12s £456 15s 6d (0.7%) £65,814 16s 6d (99.3%)
1732 - 1809
£66,271 12s - (100%) £456 15s 6d (0.7%) £65,814 16s 6d (99.3%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
295 2 293
1732 - 1809
295 2 293
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
12 Nov 1794 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, My Grandmother No No No £329 1s 67% N/A
19 Nov 1794 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, No Song No Supper No No No £174 13s 40% N/A
03 Dec 1794 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, No Song No Supper No No No £252 16s 45% N/A
22 Jan 1795 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Miss in her Teens No No No £186 4s 62% N/A
28 Jan 1795 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Miss in her Teens No No No £145 2s 62% N/A
10 Feb 1795 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, No Song No Supper No No No £139 1s 6d 52% N/A
17 Feb 1795 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Alexander the Great No No No £349 7s 76% N/A
26 Sep 1795 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Children in the Wood No No No £327 1s 100% N/A
15 Oct 1795 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Peeping Tom No No No £291 11s 73% N/A
28 Oct 1795 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Village Lawyer No No No £211 11s 55% N/A
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