The Midnight Hour (1787)

Author
Elizabeth Inchbald
Author
Monsieur Dumaniant
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
£24,298 10s £22,331 14s 6d (91.9%) £1,966 15s 6d (8.1%)
1732 - 1809
£24,298 10s - (100%) £22,331 14s 6d (91.9%) £1,966 15s 6d (8.1%)
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 %
11 Dec 1788 Covent Garden The Child Of Nature, The Farmer, The Midnight Hour No No No £183 2s 6d 62% N/A
13 Jan 1789 Covent Garden Love In A Village, The Midnight Hour, Mirth by Moonshine No No No £126 11s 47% N/A
23 Feb 1789 Covent Garden The Farmer, The Midnight Hour, Aladin No No No £177 12s 58% N/A
26 Mar 1789 Covent Garden The Midnight Hour, The Death of Captain Cook, The Farmer No No No £232 16s 56% N/A
27 May 1789 Covent Garden The Highland Reel, The Midnight Hour, Poor Vulcan No No Yes £246 1s 6d 61% N/A
03 Jun 1789 Covent Garden The Child Of Nature, Poor Vulcan, The Midnight Hour No No Yes £176 17s 6d 58% N/A
11 Jun 1789 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Midnight Hour, The Piping Pedlar No No Yes £360 4s 6d 71% N/A
17 Jun 1789 Covent Garden Animal Magnetism, Such Things Have Been, The Midnight Hour, Paddy's Ramble from Dublin to London No No Yes £177 13s 6d 100% N/A
24 Oct 1789 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Midnight Hour, Hornpipe No No No £207 8s 6d 54% N/A
19 Dec 1789 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, The Midnight Hour No No No £184 16s 48% N/A
12 Jan 1790 Covent Garden The Highland Reel, The Midnight Hour, Harlequin's Chaplet No No No £217 6d 50% N/A
02 Mar 1790 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, The Midnight Hour No No No £208 13s 54% N/A
20 Mar 1790 Covent Garden The Castle Of Andalusia, The Midnight Hour No No No £153 9s 6d 40% 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
19 May 1790 Covent Garden The Crusade, The Midnight Hour No No No £167 1s 81% N/A
14 Dec 1790 Covent Garden Rose And Colin, The German Hotel, The Midnight Hour No No No £196 9s 40% N/A
18 Dec 1790 Covent Garden The Farmer, The Midnight Hour, A Divertisement No No No £129 10s 6d 39% N/A
02 Mar 1791 Covent Garden The Woodman, The Midnight Hour No No No £221 6s 6d 60% N/A
31 May 1791 Covent Garden The Midnight Hour, The Comedy of Errors, The Jockies, Black-Eyed Susan No No Yes £186 2s 6d N/A N/A
19 Nov 1791 Covent Garden Artaxerxes, The Midnight Hour No No No £255 35% N/A
20 Dec 1791 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Midnight Hour No No No £166 10s 50% N/A
07 Feb 1792 Covent Garden The Magician No Conjurer, The Midnight Hour No No No £140 5s 6d 27% N/A
23 May 1792 Covent Garden The Castle Of Andalusia, The Midnight Hour, Divertisement No No Yes £186 19s 6d 20% N/A
19 Oct 1792 Covent Garden The Woodman, The Midnight Hour No No No £270 11s 6d 100% N/A
05 Dec 1792 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune, The Midnight Hour No Yes No £490 17s 70% N/A
02 Nov 1793 Covent Garden Love In A Village, The Midnight Hour, Dermot and Kathlane No No No £191 13s 100% N/A
11 Dec 1793 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Hornpipe, The Midnight Hour, Dermot and Kathleen, Dermot and Kathlane No No No £194 10s 100% N/A
03 Mar 1794 Covent Garden The Travellers In Switzerland, The Midnight Hour, The Savoyard No No Yes £238 11s 6d N/A N/A
31 May 1794 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Hornpipe, The Midnight Hour, Dermot and Kathlane No No Yes £397 16s 6d 16% N/A
05 Oct 1795 Covent Garden Love In A Village, The Midnight Hour No No No £206 17s 6d 38% N/A
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
10 Nov 1803 Drury Lane The Wife of Two Husbands, The Midnight Hour No No No £171 6s 6d 41% N/A
20 Dec 1803 Covent Garden The English Fleet in 1342, The Midnight Hour No No No £301 18s 6d 60% N/A
21 Jan 1804 Covent Garden The English Fleet in 1342, The Midnight Hour No No No £272 6d 39% N/A
01 Jun 1804 Covent Garden Love in a Village, The Midnight Hour No No Yes £273 17s 6d 50% N/A
12 Jun 1804 Drury Lane Duenna, Midnight Hour No No Yes £686 7s 30% N/A
11 Dec 1804 Covent Garden Thirty Thousand; or, Who's the Richest?, The Midnight Hour No No No £151 3s 45% N/A
07 Feb 1805 Covent Garden Romeo and Juliet, The Midnight Hour No No No £637 7s 6d 61% N/A
08 Jun 1805 Covent Garden Lovers' Vows, The Midnight Hour No No Yes £463 12s 6d N/A N/A
15 Jun 1805 Covent Garden Lovers' Vows, Cupid's Triumph, The Midnight Hour No No Yes £386 4s N/A N/A
20 Sep 1805 Covent Garden The Cabinet, The Midnight Hour No No No £215 16s 100% N/A
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