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
£73,150 6s 6d £715 18s 6d (1%) £72,434 8s (99%)
1732 - 1809
£73,150 6s 6d - (100%) £715 18s 6d (1%) £72,434 8s (99%)
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 %
03 Mar 1791 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Spoiled Child No No No £208 16s 47% N/A
07 Mar 1791 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Deaf Lover No No No £245 4s 6d 39% N/A
31 Mar 1791 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Critic No No Yes £296 17s N/A N/A
07 Apr 1791 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Critic No No No £254 1s 6d 57% N/A
27 Sep 1791 Drury Lane Poor Old Drury, The School for Scandal, No Song No Supper No No No £459 13s 100% N/A
11 Oct 1791 Drury Lane Poor Old Drury, The School for Scandal, No Song No Supper No No No £365 17s 6d 100% N/A
26 Oct 1791 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Devil to Pay No No No £196 6d 45% N/A
23 Nov 1791 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £330 15s N/A N/A
03 Dec 1791 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £249 10s 49% N/A
10 Dec 1791 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Sultan No No No £421 3s 6d 68% N/A
15 Feb 1792 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Devil to Pay No No No £231 1s 53% N/A
03 Mar 1792 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Pannel No No No £217 15s 41% N/A
15 Sep 1792 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, All The Worlds A Stage No No No £231 12s 100% N/A
30 Oct 1792 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, No Song No Supper No No No £202 2s 6d 46% N/A
13 Nov 1792 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Prisoner No No No £186 4s 49% N/A
05 Dec 1792 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Prisoner No No No £208 2s 6d 30% N/A
17 Jan 1793 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Prisoner No No No £236 12s 6d 42% N/A
18 Feb 1793 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Prisoner No No No £170 18s 6d 40% N/A
10 May 1793 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Mariners No No Yes £379 14s 6d 39% N/A
04 Jun 1793 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Apprentice, Minuet de la Cour, Gavot No No Yes £231 18s 45% N/A
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
20 Jan 1796 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Harlequin Captive No No No £545 3s 6d 72% N/A
04 Apr 1796 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Harlequin Captive No No No £289 8s 6d 54% N/A
03 Jun 1796 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, No Song No Supper, A Musical Olio, The Little Waist, The Sailor's Journal No No Yes £148 10s 6d N/A N/A
27 Sep 1796 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, No Song No Supper No No No £331 4s 6d 100% N/A
03 Nov 1796 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £242 17s 6d 57% N/A
14 Dec 1796 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Shipwreck, The Scotch Ghost No No No £225 1s 6d 36% N/A
19 Jan 1797 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, No Song No Supper, The Scotch Ghost No No No £197 1s 6d 29% N/A
09 Feb 1797 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, A Friend in Need No No No £321 14s 51% N/A
25 Feb 1797 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Lodoiska No No No £219 11s 51% N/A
21 Mar 1797 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Lodoiska No No No £186 4s 38% N/A
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
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