The Death of Captain Cook (1789)

Author
Sir George Collier
Author
Jean-François Arnould-Mussot
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Pantomime
Performance Medium
Dance
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
£13,891 6s 10d £13,891 6s 10d (100%) £0 (0%)
1732 - 1809
£13,891 6s 10d - (100%) £13,891 6s 10d (100%) £0 (0%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
65 65 0
1732 - 1809
65 65 0
Notes
Ballet pantomime. Adapted from Jean Francois Mussot's 'La Mort du Capitaine Cook à son Troisième Voyage au Noveau Monde' (1788?).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
30 May 1791 Covent Garden The Death Of Captain Cook, Wild Oats, The Wives Revenged No No No £178 18s 59% N/A
15 Jun 1791 Covent Garden The Death Of Captain Cook, Wild Oats, Hob in the Well No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
15 May 1794 Covent Garden The Death Of Captain Cook, The School For Arrogance, Netley Abbey No No No £107 18s 20% N/A
19 May 1794 Covent Garden The Death Of Captain Cook, The Siege Of Meaux, Netley Abbey No No No £125 9s 26% N/A
27 May 1794 Covent Garden The Siege Of Meaux, The Packet Boat, The Death Of Captain Cook No No No £89 8s 26% N/A
29 Oct 1795 Covent Garden Jane Shore, The Death of Captain Cook No No No £203 15s 41% N/A
02 Nov 1795 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Death of Captain Cook, Dirge No No No £196 2s 37% N/A
04 May 1796 Covent Garden The Death Of Captain Cook, Artaxerxes, Saint Patrick's Day No No No £195 15s 38% N/A
21 Oct 1799 Covent Garden The Birth Day, The Naval Pillar, The Death of Captain Cook, Black Ey'd Susan, A Bundle of Proverbs, An Hungry Fox One Day Did Spy, Britons, Your Country's Gratitude Behold, In Praise of the Tars Who Have Leathered the World, Sir Sydney Smith, The Embarkation, The Navy and Army of Britain Forever, We Come, Ye Guardians of Our Isle, When a Tar Returns Home, When Britain First Her Flag Upreared, When Peace Smiles Around No No No £238 4s 6d 51% N/A
23 Oct 1799 Covent Garden The Birth Day, The Death of Captain Cook, The Naval Pillar, Black Ey'd Susan, A Bundle of Proverbs, An Hungry Fox One Day Did Spy, Britons, Your Country's Gratitude Behold, In Praise of the Tars Who Have Leathered the World, Sir Sydney Smith, The Embarkation, The Navy and Army of Britain Forever, We Come, Ye Guardians of Our Isle, When a Tar Returns Home, When Britain First Her Flag Upreared, When Peace Smiles Around No No No £180 1s 6d 43% N/A
26 Oct 1799 Covent Garden Lovers' Vows, The Death of Captain Cook, The Naval Pillar, Black Ey'd Susan, A Bundle of Proverbs, An Hungry Fox One Day Did Spy, Britons, Your Country's Gratitude Behold, In Praise of the Tars Who Have Leathered the World, Sir Sydney Smith, The Embarkation, The Navy and Army of Britain Forever, We Come, Ye Guardians of Our Isle, When a Tar Returns Home, When Britain First Her Flag Upreared, When Peace Smiles Around No No No £218 11s 6d 50% N/A
28 Oct 1799 Covent Garden Macbeth, The Death of Captain Cook No No No £177 13s 6d 30% N/A
17 May 1800 Covent Garden Speculation, Marian, The Death of Captain Cook, Mark When Beneath the Western Main, Happy Were the Days, O Strike the Harp, Sigh No More, Ladies Yes No Yes £436 19s 20% N/A
03 May 1804 Covent Garden Inkle and Yarico, The Village Lawyer, The Death of Captain Cook No No Yes £535 1s 6d 66% N/A
18 May 1804 Covent Garden Family Quarrels, The Sultan; or, a Peep into the Seraglio, The Death of Capt. Cook, in the Island of O-Why-E No No Yes £319 12s 6d 68% N/A
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