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 %
20 Jan 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Burgomaster Trick'd No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Jan 1737 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Jan 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Fall of Phaeton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Jan 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Burgomaster Trick'd Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Feb 1737 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Mar 1737 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Walking Statue or The Devil in the Wine Cellar, Comic Dance, As I Saw Fair Clara, Glover's Dance of Sailors, Hornpipe Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Mar 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Mock Doctor, English Maggot, Figure Dance, Harlequin No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
15 Apr 1737 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Devil to Pay, Scots Dance, Comic Dance, Two Pierrots No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 May 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The What Dye Call It, Harlequin, English Maggot, Wooden Shoe Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 Oct 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Lilliputians No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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