A Divertisement (1790)

Composer
Charles Dibdin
Author
John Cartwright Cross
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Interlude
Performance Medium
Musical
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
£13,657 16s 1d £13,657 16s 1d (100%) £0 (0%)
1732 - 1809
£13,657 16s 1d - (100%) £13,657 16s 1d (100%) £0 (0%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
58 58 0
1732 - 1809
58 58 0
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
30 Nov 1791 Covent Garden The Prussian Festival, Notoriety, A Divertisement No No No £182 18s 62% N/A
09 Dec 1791 Covent Garden A Day In Turkey, A Divertisement No No No £141 8s 54% N/A
05 Mar 1792 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, A Divertisement No No Yes £289 17s 6d N/A N/A
19 May 1792 Covent Garden Cymbeline, A Divertisement, Divertisement, Hark the Lark at Heaven's Gate Sings, Jeu D'Esprit; or, Jerry Sneak's Intended Law Suit with the Major, My Little Pig Lays Without any Straw, The Ploughboy's Return from The Sea No No Yes £256 7s 34% N/A
21 May 1793 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, The Relief of Williamstadt, A Divertisement, Sonata from Op. 2 No No Yes £259 6s 6d 51% N/A
12 Apr 1794 Covent Garden The Chances, Tristram Shandy, A Divertisement, Ballet No No Yes £469 13s 44% N/A
10 May 1794 Covent Garden Hamlet, A Divertisement, Margaret Of Anjou, Dirge, Black Eyed Susan Yes No Yes £231 17s 27% N/A
29 Oct 1794 Covent Garden The Rage, A Divertisement, Ballet No No No £231 11s 6d 48% N/A
05 Jun 1795 Covent Garden The Bank Note, A Divertisement, Ballet, The Irishman's Peep at the Continent, Old Towler, The Storm No No Yes £253 8s 45% N/A
07 Oct 1795 Covent Garden The Rage, A Divertisement, Ballet No No No £267 10s 100% N/A
04 Nov 1795 Covent Garden The Mysteries Of The Castle, A Divertisement No No No £130 19s 6d 36% N/A
05 Nov 1795 Covent Garden The Wives Revenged, The Secret Tribunal, A Divertisement No No Yes £92 17s 6d N/A N/A
08 Apr 1796 Covent Garden The Mysteries Of The Castle, A Divertisement, Belles! Have at Ye All, Dermot and Kathlane, or The Irish Wedding No No Yes £296 1s 49% N/A
02 Oct 1797 Covent Garden King Richard The Third, A Divertisement, Ballet No No No £286 17s 100% N/A
13 Oct 1797 Covent Garden The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage, A Divertisement, Ballet No No No £254 6s 6d 100% N/A
28 Oct 1797 Covent Garden The Way Of The World, A Divertisement, Englands Glory, Ballet No No No £252 14s 6d 45% N/A
09 Nov 1797 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, A Divertisement, Englands Glory, Ballet, Triple Hornpipe No No No £193 6s 6d 38% N/A
18 Dec 1797 Covent Garden The Mysteries Of The Castle, A Divertisement, Ballet No No No £144 6d 27% N/A
28 Apr 1798 Covent Garden Hamlet, Hooly and Fairly or The Highland Lad and Lowland Lass, A Divertisement, Highland Reel, Dirge, Andrew And His Cutty Gun, Ballet, Highland Laddy, Hooly and Fairly, Katharine Ogie, The Little Farthing Rushlight, Todlen Hame, Tulloch Goram No No Yes £230 19s 6d 37% N/A
11 May 1798 Covent Garden England Preservd, The Maid of the Mill, A Divertisement, Ballet No No No £59 6d 26% N/A
16 Mar 1799 Covent Garden Five Thousand A Year, A Divertisement, Catherine and Petruchio, Ballet, Black-Eyed Susan No No Yes £542 6d 51% N/A
25 Mar 1799 Covent Garden A Divertisement, Five Thousand a Year, The Magic Oak No No No £337 18s 51% N/A
27 Mar 1799 Covent Garden A Divertisement, Five Thousand a Year, The Magic Oak, Ballet No No No £247 8s 6d 47% N/A
10 Apr 1799 Covent Garden A Divertisement, The Birth Day, The Jew and the Doctor, Ballet No No No £176 17s 54% N/A
13 Apr 1799 Covent Garden A Divertisement, The Birth Day, Raymond and Agnes or The Castle of Lindenbergh, Ballet No No No £239 3s 6d 61% N/A
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