The Poor Soldier (1783)

Author
John O'Keeffe
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
£41,138 £37,111 3s (90.2%) £4,026 17s (9.8%)
1732 - 1809
£41,138 - (100%) £37,111 3s (90.2%) £4,026 17s (9.8%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
197 186 11
1732 - 1809
197 186 11
Notes
Adapted from O'Keeffe's 'The Shamrock; or, The Anniversary of St Patrick' (1777).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
16 Nov 1797 Covent Garden Wives As They Were And Maids As They Are, The Poor Soldier No No No £106 6d 31% N/A
01 Feb 1798 Covent Garden Secrets Worth Knowing, The Poor Soldier No No No £191 13s 35% N/A
14 Apr 1798 Covent Garden The Raft, Secrets Worth Knowing, The Poor Soldier No No No £87 14s 6d 25% N/A
19 May 1798 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Poor Soldier No No Yes £307 17s 15% N/A
22 Jan 1799 Covent Garden The Votary Of Wealth, The Poor Soldier No No No £207 2s 35% N/A
01 May 1799 Covent Garden What Is She, The Poor Soldier No No Yes £176 2s N/A N/A
30 Sep 1799 Covent Garden Macbeth, The Poor Soldier No No No £335 17s 100% N/A
05 Nov 1799 Covent Garden Management, The Poor Soldier No No No £207 14s 60% N/A
20 Dec 1799 Covent Garden Management, The Poor Soldier No No No £67 19s 6d 17% N/A
07 Feb 1800 Covent Garden Joanna, The Poor Soldier No No No £156 28% N/A
24 May 1800 Covent Garden Ramah Droog, The Ghost, The Poor Soldier, Love Thou Maddening Power, Old Towler No No Yes £268 12s 50% N/A
22 Sep 1800 Covent Garden Lover's Vows, The Poor Soldier No No No £335 1s 100% N/A
26 Sep 1800 Covent Garden Lover's Vows, The Poor Soldier No No No £255 11s 100% N/A
01 Nov 1800 Covent Garden The Poor Soldier, Life No No No £260 2s 44% N/A
22 Jan 1801 Covent Garden Speed the Plough, The Poor Soldier No No No £243 14s 44% N/A
19 Jun 1801 Covent Garden Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, The Scotch Ghost, The Poor Soldier No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Nov 1801 Covent Garden Folly as it Flies, The Poor Soldier No No No £298 15s 76% N/A
06 Oct 1802 Covent Garden A Cure for the Heart Ache, The Poor Soldier No No No £282 6d 100% N/A
01 Nov 1802 Covent Garden Delays and Blunders, The Poor Soldier No No No £257 10s 6d 53% N/A
02 Nov 1802 Drury Lane The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Poor Soldier No No No £342 8s 6d 57% N/A
07 Mar 1803 Covent Garden John Bull; or, An Englishman's Fire Side, The Poor Soldier No No No £426 3s 57% N/A
08 Jun 1803 Covent Garden The Road to Ruin, The Poor Soldier No No Yes £431 5s N/A N/A
20 Oct 1803 Covent Garden Pizarro, The Poor Soldier No No No £404 1s 71% N/A
23 Feb 1804 Covent Garden Love Gives the Alarm, The Poor Soldier No No No £311 8s 39% N/A
09 Jun 1804 Covent Garden Speed the Plough, The Poor Soldier No No Yes £385 2s 6d N/A N/A
24 Sep 1804 Covent Garden The Mountaineers, The Poor Soldier No No No £334 13s 6d 100% N/A
23 Apr 1805 Covent Garden Zara, The Poor Soldier No No No £459 10s 71% N/A
15 May 1805 Drury Lane The Soldier's Daughter, Polocca Bravura, All for Fame! or, A Peep at the Times, The Poor Soldier, Dance from The Corsair, No, 'Twas Neither Shape Nor Feature, Douglas, The Tartan Pladie No No Yes £216 10s 6d N/A N/A
23 Sep 1805 Covent Garden The Mountaineers, The Poor Soldier No No No £336 16s 6d 100% N/A
12 Oct 1805 Covent Garden Othello, the Moor of Venice, The Poor Soldier No No No £331 14s 6d 66% N/A
23 Dec 1805 Covent Garden Barbarossa, The Poor Soldier No No No £425 2s 6d 60% N/A
06 May 1806 Covent Garden Barbarossa, The Poor Solider No No No £268 15s 6d 43% N/A
29 May 1806 Covent Garden The Poor Soldier, A Tale of Terror No No Yes £563 3s 6d 39% N/A
13 Jun 1806 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Poor Soldier No No Yes £391 12s 100% N/A
03 Jun 1807 Covent Garden Poor Gentleman, Poor Soldier No No Yes £561 15s 6d 67% N/A
14 Sep 1807 Covent Garden Romeo and Juliet, Solemn Dirge, The Poor Soldier No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Sep 1807 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Poor Soldier No No No £344 14s 100% N/A
24 Sep 1807 Drury Lane Adelgitha, The Poor Soldier No No No £275 11s 100% N/A
29 Sep 1807 Drury Lane Pizarro, The Poor Soldier No No No £400 15s 6d 100% N/A
06 Oct 1807 Drury Lane Percy, The Poor Soldier No No No £293 2s 100% N/A
20 Oct 1807 Drury Lane All in the Wrong, The Poor Soldier No No No £331 1s 6d N/A N/A
15 Mar 1808 Drury Lane All in the Wrong, The Poor Soldier No No No £207 19s 6d N/A N/A
09 Jun 1808 Drury Lane The Soldier's Daughter, In Search of a Wife, The New School, Long Time I've Courted You, Miss, But Now I'm Come from Sea, The Poor Soldier No No Yes £587 19s N/A N/A
30 Sep 1808 Covent Garden The Grecian Daughter, The Poor Soldier No No No £327 9s 100% N/A
24 Oct 1808 Covent Garden Richard the Third, The Poor Soldier No No No £223 4s 42% N/A
02 Dec 1808 Covent Garden The Exile, The Poor Soldier No No No £400 4s 6d 59% N/A
21 Mar 1809 Covent Garden Speed the Plough, The Poor Soldier No No No £193 3s 100% N/A
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