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 %
14 Mar 1796 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, High Life below Stairs, My Mother Had a Maid Called Barbara, O Why to be Happy, Where is That Tow'ring Spirit Fled, Ye Gentlemen of England No No Yes £498 5s 55% N/A
04 Jun 1796 Drury Lane Mahmoud, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No No £118 17s 71% N/A
20 Sep 1796 Drury Lane The Prize Or two, The Child of Nature, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No No £281 6s 100% N/A
16 Jun 1797 Drury Lane The Heiress, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet, The Scotch Ghost No No Yes £100 14s 6d N/A N/A
14 Nov 1797 Drury Lane The Belle's Stratagem, A Trip to the Nore, High Life below Stairs, Minuet, Mock Minuet No No No £209 7s 6d 59% N/A
27 Apr 1798 Covent Garden The School For Scandal, Matrimony, High Life below Stairs, Strike the Harp in Praise of Bragela No No Yes £303 12s 54% N/A
15 May 1798 Covent Garden Every Man In His Humour, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No Yes £270 11s 6d 31% N/A
09 Jun 1798 Drury Lane The Siege Of Belgrade, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No Yes £58 12s N/A N/A
20 Sep 1798 Drury Lane Jane Shore, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No No £302 16s 100% N/A
12 Feb 1799 Drury Lane The Castle spectre, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No No £153 5s 6d 41% N/A
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