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 %
01 Nov 1803 Drury Lane The Wife of Two Husbands, High Life Below Stairs No No No £298 10s 58% N/A
20 Apr 1804 Drury Lane The Wife of Two Husbands, High Life Below Stairs No No No £102 13s 27% N/A
06 Feb 1805 Drury Lane The Honey Moon, The United Britons, High Life Below Stairs No No No £286 14s 51% N/A
15 Feb 1805 Drury Lane Barbarossa, The High Life Below Stairs No No No £605 4s 6d 74% N/A
19 Apr 1805 Drury Lane She Stoops to Conquer, The United Britons, High Life Below Stairs No No No £123 1s 32% N/A
10 Jun 1806 Drury Lane The School for Scandal, High Life Below Stairs No No Yes £62 7s 6d N/A N/A
15 May 1807 Drury Lane Duenna, High Life Below Stairs, Don Juan No No Yes £341 3s 44% N/A
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