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 %
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
15 May 1801 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Dr Last's Examination, The Shipwreck No No Yes £557 5s 48% N/A
28 Oct 1801 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Blue Beard; or, Female Curiosity No No No £210 4s 42% N/A
17 Nov 1801 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, The Shipwreck No No No £146 4s 23% N/A
24 May 1802 Drury Lane School for Scandal, Adelmorn, Ballet No No Yes £597 6s 6d 61% N/A
23 Apr 1804 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, The Review; or, the Wags of Windsor No No Yes £550 9s 52% N/A
28 Apr 1804 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Cinderella No No No £171 5s 6d 34% N/A
04 May 1804 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, The Deserter of Naples No No Yes £559 10s 6d 49% N/A
15 May 1804 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, The Caravan No No Yes £75 4s 6d N/A N/A
31 May 1804 Drury Lane School for Scandal, Caravan No No Yes £61 6s 6d N/A N/A
08 Oct 1804 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £439 19s 55% N/A
11 Oct 1804 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £331 16s 71% N/A
15 Oct 1804 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £366 8s 57% N/A
22 Oct 1804 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Fortune's Frolic No No No £319 17s 6d 52% N/A
29 Oct 1804 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Caravan No No No £244 12s 6d 41% N/A
12 Nov 1804 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, The Spoiled Child No No No £261 9s 6d 41% N/A
19 Nov 1804 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, The Apprentice No No No £203 15s 47% N/A
05 Dec 1804 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Cinderella No Yes No £656 14s 6d 53% N/A
25 Jan 1805 Drury Lane School for Scandal, Of Age Tomorrow, Old Harlequin's Fireside No No No £197 3s 38% N/A
22 May 1805 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Personation; or, Fairly Taken In, Comus No No Yes £316 1s 36% N/A
11 Jun 1805 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Personation, Youth, Love, and Folly No Yes No £439 4s 6d 84% N/A
28 Sep 1805 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, The Anatomist No No No £322 14s 100% N/A
25 Oct 1805 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, House to be Sold No No No £139 10s 6d 38% N/A
09 Dec 1805 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, The Sleeping Beauty No No No £307 8s 56% N/A
10 Jun 1806 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, High Life Below Stairs No No Yes £62 7s 6d N/A N/A
27 Sep 1806 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Miss in her Teens No No No £268 4s 6d 100% N/A
25 Oct 1806 Drury Lane School for Scandal, Devil to Pay No No No £261 8s 100% N/A
28 Oct 1806 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, No Song No Supper No No No £156 7s 36% N/A
22 Apr 1807 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, The Wood Daemon; or, "The Clock has Struck!" No No No £246 4s 40% N/A
01 Oct 1807 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, A House to be Sold No No No £366 18s 6d 100% N/A
10 Nov 1807 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, My Grandmother No No No £159 17s N/A N/A
03 Feb 1808 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, Ella Rosenberg No No No £293 19s N/A N/A
03 Jan 1809 Drury Lane School for Scandal, Robinson Crusoe No No No £233 7s 64% N/A
13 Feb 1809 Drury Lane School for Scandal, Blue Beard No No No £345 15s 6d 62% N/A
25 May 1809 Drury Lane Manager in Distress, School for Scandal, Three & Deuce No No Yes £280 5s 6d 57% N/A
06 Jun 1809 Drury Lane School for Scandal, Blue Devils, Weathercock No No Yes £359 3s 100% N/A
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