The Midnight Hour (1787)

Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Comedy
Performance Medium
Spoken Drama
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
£20,555 1s 6d £19,447 12s (94.6%) £1,107 9s 6d (5.4%)
1732 - 1809
£20,555 1s 6d - (100%) £19,447 12s (94.6%) £1,107 9s 6d (5.4%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
104 99 5
1732 - 1809
104 99 5
Notes
Taken from Antoine Jean Bourlin's [Dumaniant] 'Guerre Ouverte; ou, Ruse Contre Ruse' (1786).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
14 Sep 1796 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Midnight Hour No No No £223 9s 6d 100% N/A
13 Dec 1796 Covent Garden Abroad And At Home, The Midnight Hour No No No £121 11s 34% N/A
09 Mar 1797 Covent Garden Wives As They Were And Maids As They Are, Bantry Bay, The Midnight Hour No No No £245 12s 6d 61% N/A
30 May 1797 Covent Garden Abroad And At Home, The Midnight Hour, Admiral Benbow, Imitations, The Beggar No No Yes £236 2s 37% N/A
31 May 1799 Covent Garden The Lie Of The Day Or A Party At Hampton Court, Lock and Key, The Midnight Hour, The Death of Admiral Benbow, Old Towler, The Snug Little Island No No Yes £304 15s 6d 16% N/A
26 Nov 1801 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Midnight Hour No No No £455 15s 76% N/A
05 Jan 1803 Covent Garden Family Quarrels, The Midnight Hour No No No £297 6s 6d 46% N/A
09 May 1803 Drury Lane All in the Wrong, The Midnight Hour No No Yes £525 3s 55% N/A
12 May 1803 Drury Lane Pizarro, The Midnight Hour No No No £347 65% N/A
03 Nov 1803 Drury Lane The Wife of Two Husbands, The Midnight Hour No No No £236 19s 46% N/A