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
£35,001 16s 9d £4,431 12s 6d (12.7%) £30,570 4s 3d (87.3%)
1732 - 1809
£35,001 16s 9d - (100%) £4,431 12s 6d (12.7%) £30,570 4s 3d (87.3%)
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 %
16 Feb 1792 Drury Lane Cymon, High Life below Stairs No No No £252 15s 6d 62% N/A
27 Apr 1792 Drury Lane The Fugitive, High Life below Stairs No No Yes £408 5s N/A N/A
18 May 1792 Drury Lane The Fugitive, High Life below Stairs No No No £206 5s 65% N/A
02 Jun 1792 Drury Lane Dido Queen Of Carthage, High Life below Stairs No No No £193 4s 6d N/A N/A
09 Oct 1792 Drury Lane The Siege Of Belgrade, High Life Below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No No £274 5s 6d 100% N/A
25 Jun 1794 Drury Lane No Song No Supper, High Life Below Stairs, Lodoiska, Mock Minuet No No No £209 16s 6d 100% N/A
30 Jun 1794 Drury Lane No Song No Supper, High Life Below Stairs, Lodoiska, Mock Minuet No No No £195 9s 100% N/A
03 Jul 1794 Drury Lane Lodoiska, High Life Below Stairs, The Glorius First Of June, Mock Minuet No No No £224 5s 100% N/A
05 Jan 1795 Drury Lane The Cherokee, High Life below Stairs No No No £215 2s 48% N/A
23 Jan 1795 Drury Lane The Provok'd Husband, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No No £134 7s 50% N/A
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
09 Mar 1799 Drury Lane The Secret, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No No £271 5s 55% N/A
12 Apr 1799 Drury Lane The Secret, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No No £181 7s 48% N/A
18 May 1799 Drury Lane The Inconstant, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No Yes £122 2s 6d N/A N/A
17 Jun 1799 Drury Lane Pizarro, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No No £513 9s 100% N/A
03 Jul 1799 Drury Lane The Castle spectre, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No Yes £58 10s 6d N/A N/A
01 Oct 1799 Drury Lane As You Like It, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No No £274 17s 100% N/A
08 Nov 1799 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, High Life below Stairs, Mock Minuet No No No £173 14s 6d 42% N/A
17 Dec 1799 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, High Life below Stairs, Hornpipe, The Scotch Ghost, Mock Minuet No No No £189 13s 55% N/A
12 Jun 1800 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, High Life below Stairs, Rosina, The Scotch Ghost No No Yes £76 1s 6d N/A N/A
17 Dec 1800 Drury Lane The Castle Spectre, High Life Below Stairs No No No £181 7s 36% N/A
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
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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