The School for Scandal (1777)

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 %
08 Apr 1797 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, My Grandmother No No No £728 14s 6d 65% N/A
29 May 1797 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £550 3s 73% N/A
09 Jun 1797 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Critic, The Scotch Ghost, Imitations No No Yes £465 13s 6d 49% N/A
19 Sep 1797 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Children in the Wood No No No £324 8s 6d 100% N/A
17 Oct 1797 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Irish Widow No No No £247 16s 6d 100% N/A
31 Mar 1798 Covent Garden The School For Scandal, The Raft or Both Sides of the Water, Lovers' Quarrels No No Yes £412 6s 6d 35% N/A
27 Apr 1798 Covent Garden The School For Scandal, Matrimony, High Life below Stairs, Strike the Harp in Praise of Bragela No No Yes £303 12s 54% N/A
18 May 1798 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Sylvester Daggerwood, The Son in Law No No Yes £675 18s 6d 86% N/A
08 Jan 1799 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Blue Beard No No No £211 6s 6d 51% N/A
15 Jan 1799 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, My Grandmother No No No £153 10s 6d 33% N/A