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 %
07 Feb 1799 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Feudal Times No No No £246 15s 6d 47% N/A
10 Apr 1799 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Prize No No No £147 17s 46% N/A
12 Feb 1800 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Virgin Unmasked, The Scotch Ghost No No No £204 1s 6d 39% N/A
16 May 1800 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Lodoiska No No Yes £330 14s 54% N/A
27 May 1800 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, No Song No Supper No No Yes £252 6s 6d 64% N/A
10 Jun 1800 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Sylvester Daggerwood, The Shipwreck, Soft Musick Let My Humble Lay, Crazy Jane No No Yes £113 17s 6d N/A N/A
22 Oct 1800 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Wilmore Castle No No No £231 15s 6d 50% N/A
26 Nov 1800 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Blue Beard No No No £187 13s 6d 32% N/A
10 Dec 1800 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Of Age To-morrow No Yes No £491 13s 6d 78% N/A
23 Jan 1801 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Harlequin Amulet; or, The Magick of Mona No No No £210 3s 40% N/A
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