The Flitch of Bacon (1778)

Composer
William Shield
Author
Samuel Ireland
Author
Henry Bate Dudley
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Comedy
Performance Medium
Musical
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
£13,034 19s £10,425 12s 6d (80%) £2,609 6s 6d (20%)
1732 - 1809
£13,034 19s - (100%) £10,425 12s 6d (80%) £2,609 6s 6d (20%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
64 52 12
1732 - 1809
64 52 12
Notes
LS and ECCO credit Henry Bate Dudley with the authorship of this piece; however, there is correspondence in the Folger (D.a.82) between Samuel Ireland and Thomas King and George Colman regarding an afterpiece written by Ireland with the same title in 1778.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
06 Nov 1781 Covent Garden Duplicity, The Flitch of Bacon No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 Nov 1781 Covent Garden The Count Of Narbonne, The Flitch of Bacon No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Dec 1781 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Flitch of Bacon No No Yes £141 11s 6d 34% N/A
07 May 1782 Drury Lane The Suspicious Husband, The Flitch of Bacon, The Distress'd Lovers No No Yes £244 17s 6d 42% N/A
23 Oct 1782 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £172 19s 42% N/A
28 Apr 1783 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Flitch of Bacon, Hornpipe, The Poney Races No No Yes £276 10s 6d 64% N/A
01 Oct 1783 Covent Garden She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not Or The Kind Imposter, The Flitch of Bacon, Damon and Musidora No No No £195 13s 6d 100% N/A
31 Oct 1783 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Husband, The Rival Knights, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £202 6s 41% N/A
24 Apr 1784 Covent Garden Which Is The Man, The Flitch of Bacon, When Phoebus the tops of the bills does adorn, Poor Thomas Day, Mad Tom, Hark! the Lark at Heav'n's Gate sings, What shall be have who kill'd the Deer? No No Yes £309 53% N/A
15 May 1784 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Flitch of Bacon, The Rival Nymphs, Let not Age No No Yes £229 3s 6d N/A N/A
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