The Beggar's Opera (1728)

Composer
Johann Christoph Pepusch
Author
John Gay
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
£77,752 19s 7d £50,503 1s 6d (65%) £27,249 18s 1d (35%)
1732 - 1809
£77,752 19s 7d - (100%) £50,503 1s 6d (65%) £27,249 18s 1d (35%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
777 470 307
1732 - 1809
777 470 307
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
15 Sep 1764 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Polly Honeycombe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Oct 1764 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Old Maid, New Tambourine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Oct 1764 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Perseus and Andromeda or The Cheats of Harlequin, Tambourine No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Nov 1764 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Apprentice, Blind Mans Buff Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Jan 1765 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Queen Mab, The Medley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Feb 1765 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Queen Mab, New Tambourine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Mar 1765 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Upholsterer, Tambourine No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Apr 1765 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Rival Queens or Death of Alexander the Little, Blind Mans Buff No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Apr 1765 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Polly Honeycombe, The Medley No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Apr 1765 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Upholsterer, Blind Mans Buff No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 May 1765 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Country Wife, Bucks Have At Ye All, The Irish Lilt Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 May 1765 Covent Garden Beggar's Opera, Harlequin Statue, Blind Mans Buff, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 Sep 1765 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Polly Honeycombe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Oct 1765 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Apprentice, The Venetian Gardeners Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Nov 1765 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Citizen, The Village Romps Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Jan 1766 Drury Lane Beggar's Opera, The Hermit No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Mar 1766 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Miss in Her Teens, The Sicilian Peasants, Rural Love No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 Apr 1766 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Englishman Returned from Paris, The Village Romps, The Cries of London No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 Apr 1766 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Daphne and Amintor, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
05 May 1766 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Upholsterer, The Fingalian Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 Sep 1766 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Polly Honeycombe No No No £135 14s 6d 100% N/A
02 Oct 1766 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Hermit Yes No No £192 4s 100% N/A
13 Oct 1766 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Vintage, The Italian Bakers No No No £144 18s 6d 50% N/A
20 Oct 1766 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Hermit, The Vintage Yes No No £150 10s 6d 44% N/A
20 Dec 1766 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Englishman in Paris, The Village Romps, The Cries of London No No Yes £224 3s 53% N/A
28 Jan 1767 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Lethe, The Female Archer Yes No No £204 2s 63% N/A
11 Feb 1767 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Queen Mab No No No £144 3s 6d 40% N/A
24 Mar 1767 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Upholsterer, The Female Archer No No Yes £285 13s 6d 64% N/A
07 Apr 1767 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Citizen, The Village Romps, The Female Archer No No Yes £154 4s N/A N/A
29 Apr 1767 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Upholsterer, The Female Archer Yes No Yes £164 2s N/A N/A
16 May 1767 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Upholsterer, Blind Mans Buff Yes No Yes £162 11s N/A N/A
27 May 1767 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Register Office No No Yes £23 16s N/A N/A
16 Sep 1767 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Hornpipe, Queen Mab, Country Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Oct 1767 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Harlequin's Invasion No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Oct 1767 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Harlequin Dr Faustus, The Irish Lilt No No No £138 18s N/A N/A
15 Oct 1767 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Harlequin Dr Faustus, The Irish Lilt No No No £130 11s N/A N/A
04 Dec 1767 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Harlequin's Invasion, The Lilliputian Camp Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Jan 1768 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No £168 4s N/A N/A
12 Feb 1768 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Orpheus and Eurydice Yes No No £179 4s N/A N/A
29 Apr 1768 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Absent Man, The Wake No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 Apr 1768 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Lethe, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £192 N/A N/A
25 May 1768 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Upholsterer, The Wapping Landlady No No Yes £153 11s 6d N/A N/A
20 Sep 1768 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Elopement, Hornpipe, Country Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Oct 1768 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Citizen, Comic Dance No No No £74 1s N/A N/A
26 Dec 1768 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Fortunatus Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Jan 1769 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Apollo and Daphne, Comic Dance No No No £176 1s N/A N/A
02 May 1769 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Catherine and Petruchio, The Lamplighters No No Yes £182 13s 6d N/A N/A
17 May 1769 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, High Life below Stairs No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 Oct 1769 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Queen Mab Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Nov 1769 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Rape of Proserpine, Dutch Dance No No No £220 2s 6d N/A N/A
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