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 %
09 May 1801 Drury Lane Adelmorn, The Outlaw, High Life Below Stairs No No No £209 8s 52% N/A
11 Nov 1801 Drury Lane Artaxerxes, High Life Below Stairs No No No £527 2s 60% N/A
15 Dec 1801 Drury Lane The Inconstant; or, The Way to Win Him, High Life Below Stairs No No No £130 10s 27% N/A
27 May 1802 Drury Lane Twelfth Night, Sylvester Dagerwood, High Life Below Stairs No No Yes £436 4s 6d 35% N/A
23 Sep 1802 Drury Lane The West Indian, High Life Below Stairs No No No £284 7s 6d 100% N/A
15 Oct 1802 Covent Garden The Cabinet, High Life Below Stairs No No No £340 3s 6d 100% N/A
22 Oct 1802 Covent Garden The Cabinet, High Life Below Stairs No No No £373 9s 100% N/A
04 Jan 1803 Covent Garden Family Quarrels, High Life Below Stairs No No No £301 1s 50% N/A
16 Apr 1803 Drury Lane The Marriage Promise, High Life Below Stairs No No No £254 16s 42% N/A
02 May 1803 Covent Garden John Bull; or, An Englishman's Fire Side, High Life Below Stairs No No No £443 5s 52% N/A
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