High Life Below Stairs (1759)

Author
James Townley
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
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
£31,339 2s 3d £3,602 13s 6d (11.5%) £27,736 8s 9d (88.5%)
1732 - 1809
£31,339 2s 3d - (100%) £3,602 13s 6d (11.5%) £27,736 8s 9d (88.5%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
247 16 231
1732 - 1809
247 16 231
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
20 Feb 1789 Drury Lane As You Like It, High Life below Stairs No No No £103 4s 6d 32% N/A
21 Mar 1789 Drury Lane Mary Queen Of Scots, High Life below Stairs No No No £240 9s 45% N/A
08 Jun 1789 Drury Lane Inkle And Yarico, High Life below Stairs, Poor Jack!; Or, the Sweet Little Cherub, Glee on the Happy Recovery of His Majesty No No Yes £229 9s 6d 24% N/A
01 Dec 1789 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No No £215 8s 6d 54% N/A
15 Dec 1789 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, High Life below Stairs, Minuet No No No £157 15s 6d 41% N/A
11 Apr 1791 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, High Life below Stairs, The Wapping Landlady No No Yes £306 12s 48% N/A
19 May 1791 Drury Lane The Strangers At Home, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet, Henry's Cottage Maid No No Yes £39 14s N/A N/A
22 Nov 1791 Drury Lane Artaxerxes, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet, Ah! could Mandane yield her breath for thee! No No No £484 13s 69% N/A
20 Jan 1792 Drury Lane Cymon, High Life below Stairs No No No £371 12s 67% N/A
04 Feb 1792 Drury Lane The Gamester, High Life below Stairs No No No £529 13s 6d N/A N/A
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