The Flitch of Bacon (1778)

Author
Henry Bate Dudley
Composer
William Shield
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
£9,356 2s 6d £7,719 17s 6d (82.5%) £1,636 5s (17.5%)
1732 - 1809
£9,356 2s 6d - (100%) £7,719 17s 6d (82.5%) £1,636 5s (17.5%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
64 52 12
1732 - 1809
64 52 12
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
07 Jan 1780 Covent Garden The Way To Keep Him, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £153 45% N/A
13 Jan 1780 Covent Garden The West Indian, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £114 10s 100% N/A
14 Jan 1780 Covent Garden She Stoops To Conquer, The Flitch of Bacon, The Dockyard No Yes No £292 13s 59% N/A
15 Jan 1780 Covent Garden The Way To Keep Him, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £123 2s 6d 33% N/A
21 Jan 1780 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £148 18s 6d 43% N/A
25 Jan 1780 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Flitch Of Bacon No No No £121 1s 6d 36% N/A
27 Jan 1780 Covent Garden The Chances, The Flitch Of Bacon No No No £104 6d 29% N/A
18 Mar 1780 Covent Garden The Double Gallant Or The Sick Lady Cured, The School For Scandal Scandalizd, The Flitch of Bacon No No Yes £230 5s N/A N/A
10 Apr 1780 Covent Garden Alexander The Great, The Fete Anticipated, The Flitch Of Bacon No No Yes £300 12s 6d 55% N/A
18 Apr 1780 Covent Garden The Chances, The Flitch of Bacon, Catches and Glees, Mad Tom No No Yes £246 13s 6d 51% N/A
22 Apr 1780 Covent Garden Buxom Joan, Much Ado about Nothing, The Flitch of Bacon, Moderation and Alteration No No Yes £107 10s 6d 58% N/A
03 Mar 1781 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £171 8s 6d 50% N/A
15 Mar 1781 Covent Garden Much Ado About Nothing, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £139 1s 36% N/A
20 Mar 1781 Covent Garden The Comedy Of Errors, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £87 6d 34% N/A
25 Apr 1781 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, A Fete, The Flitch of Bacon, When Phoebus the Tops of the Hills Did Adorn No No Yes £194 2s 6d 47% N/A
01 May 1781 Covent Garden The Mistake, True Blue, The Flitch of Bacon, The Rakes of Mallow, St David's Day; or The Village Revels, Country Dance, Double Hornpipe, Sailors Dance, The Sports of the Green or The Rivals Reconcild No No Yes £162 4s N/A N/A
15 May 1781 Drury Lane The West Indian, A Fete, The Flitch of Bacon, The Butterfly No No Yes £260 1s 28% N/A
18 May 1781 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, The Flitch of Bacon, Minuet de la Cour en Quatre, St. David's Day, The Humours of New Market, Minuet, New Pastoral Dance, The Poney Races No No Yes £296 11s 50% N/A
23 May 1781 Covent Garden She Stoops To Conquer, The Farmer's Return from London, The Flitch of Bacon, The Humours of Leixlip No No Yes £203 4s 67% N/A
13 Oct 1781 Covent Garden Duplicity, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £204 16s 69% N/A
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
21 May 1784 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Husband, The Flitch of Bacon, Minuet de la Cour, Pas de Deux, The Charms of a Camp; or, The Female Volunteer, The Rival Nymphs No No Yes £179 4s 6d 62% N/A
27 May 1784 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, The Flitch of Bacon, The Charms of a Camp No No Yes £290 6d N/A N/A
03 May 1785 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Flitch of Bacon, The Mansion of Peace, Awake Aeolean Lyre, Bright Phoebus has Mounted the Chariot of Day No No Yes £301 19s 6d N/A N/A
20 Oct 1785 Drury Lane Braganza, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £239 10s 44% N/A
29 Oct 1785 Drury Lane Macbeth, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £205 10s 6d 59% N/A
07 Jun 1786 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Flitch of Bacon, The Lucky Return No No No £219 16s 6d 100% N/A
20 May 1789 Covent Garden Fontainbleau, The Flitch of Bacon, The Piping Pedlar, Auld Robin Gray No No Yes £290 16s 6d 64% N/A
18 Mar 1790 Covent Garden The Toy Or Hampton court Frolics, The Flitch of Bacon, The Deserter No No No £180 7s 6d 41% N/A
13 Apr 1790 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Flitch of Bacon, Hornpipe, The Wolf No No Yes £285 14s 47% N/A
03 May 1790 Covent Garden Macbeth, The Flitch of Bacon, Tambourine Dance No No Yes £360 12s 37% N/A
01 Jun 1790 Covent Garden The Ladies' Frolick, The Comedy of Errors, The Flitch of Bacon, Crutch Dance, Highland Laddie, Alone by the Light of the Moon No No Yes £216 12s 66% N/A
14 May 1791 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Flitch of Bacon, The Jockies No No Yes £202 19s N/A N/A
07 Dec 1791 Drury Lane The Rivals, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £198 11s 33% N/A
28 Sep 1792 Covent Garden The Suspicious Husband, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £286 7s 100% N/A
30 Nov 1793 Covent Garden The World In A Village, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £206 8s 6d 100% N/A
03 Dec 1793 Covent Garden The World In A Village, The Flitch Of Bacon, The Drunken Swiss No No Yes £158 13s 6d N/A N/A
09 Dec 1795 Covent Garden King Henry The Fourth First Part, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £170 12s 44% N/A
29 Jan 1796 Covent Garden The Way To Get Married, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £203 15s 40% N/A
23 May 1798 Drury Lane The Castle spectre, The Sons of Anacreon, The Flitch of Bacon No No Yes £526 14s 6d 64% N/A
26 Jan 1799 Covent Garden Laugh When You Can, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £164 9s 6d 32% N/A
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