The Maid of the Mill (1765)

Author
Isaac Bickerstaffe
Composer
Samuel Arnold
Work Type
Mainpiece
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
£20,006 4d £14,384 2s 10d (71.9%) £5,621 17s 6d (28.1%)
1732 - 1809
£20,006 4d - (100%) £14,384 2s 10d (71.9%) £5,621 17s 6d (28.1%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
175 129 46
1732 - 1809
175 129 46
Notes
Reduced to two act and largely performed as an afterpiece from 1797.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
26 Jan 1787 Drury Lane The Maid Of The Mill, The First Floor, La Soiree Provencalle No No No £131 19s 6d 36% N/A
10 Feb 1787 Drury Lane The Maid Of The Mill, Harlequin's Invasion, La Soiree Provencalle No No No £116 19s 6d 35% N/A
17 May 1787 Drury Lane The Maid Of The Mill, The Distress'd Baronet, La Soiree Provencalle No No No £63 2s 27% N/A
26 Jan 1788 Drury Lane The Maid Of The Mill, Harlequin Junior, The Capricious Lovers No No No £103 7s 6d 30% N/A
18 Feb 1789 Drury Lane The Maid Of The Mill, Robinson Crusoe, Jamie's Return No No No £134 5s 6d 39% N/A
12 Dec 1789 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, The Death of Captain Cook No No No £224 17s 4d 52% N/A
19 Dec 1789 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, The Midnight Hour No No No £184 16s 48% N/A
05 Jan 1790 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, Harlequin's Chaplet No No No £238 13s 6d 49% N/A
02 Mar 1790 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, The Midnight Hour No No No £208 13s 54% N/A
17 Apr 1790 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, The Midnight Hour, The Guardian Outwitted No No No £176 1s 6d 48% N/A
02 Jan 1795 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, Mago and Dago No No No £164 15s 6d 42% N/A
14 Jan 1795 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, Mago and Dago No Yes No £385 18s 6d 63% N/A
13 Jun 1795 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, Two Strings to Your Bow No No Yes £409 10s 100% N/A
20 Oct 1797 Covent Garden The Orphan, The Maid of the Mill, Englands Glory, Triple Hornpipe No No No £259 17s 100% N/A
23 Oct 1797 Covent Garden Douglas, The Maid of the Mill, Englands Glory, Triple Hornpipe No No No £260 9s 54% N/A
26 Oct 1797 Covent Garden Douglas, The Maid of the Mill, Englands Glory No No No £203 15s 46% N/A
04 May 1798 Covent Garden King Richard The Third, The Maid of the Mill No No No £90 6s 29% N/A
11 May 1798 Covent Garden England Preservd, The Maid of the Mill, A Divertisement, Ballet No No No £59 6d 26% N/A
27 Sep 1798 Drury Lane The Maid Of The Mill, The Agreeable Surprise No No No £259 6d 100% N/A
28 Sep 1798 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Maid of the Mill No No No £200 17s 6d 100% N/A
04 Oct 1799 Covent Garden Othello Moor Of Venice, The Maid of the Mill No No No £245 16s 100% N/A
06 Nov 1799 Drury Lane The Maid Of The Mill, Katharine and Petruchio No No No £178 17s 26% N/A
04 Jun 1800 Covent Garden The School For Wives, The Maid of the Mill No No Yes £420 13s 24% N/A
31 Oct 1800 Covent Garden King Richard the Third, The Maid of the Mill No No No £196 5s 6d 60% N/A
26 Apr 1803 Covent Garden John Bull; or, An Englishman's Fire Side, The Maid of the Mill No No No £432 11s 64% N/A
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