The Road to Ruin (1792)

Author
Thomas Holcroft
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Comedy
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
£23,363 3s £22,994 8s (98.4%) £368 15s (1.6%)
1732 - 1809
£23,363 3s - (100%) £22,994 8s (98.4%) £368 15s (1.6%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
91 90 1
1732 - 1809
91 90 1
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
18 Jan 1793 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, Harlequin's Museum, Burlesque Pas des Russe, Hornpipe No No No £279 4s 6d 58% N/A
23 Mar 1793 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, The Relief of Williamstadt or The Return from Victory, Hartford Bridge No No Yes £460 11s 61% N/A
10 Apr 1793 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, The Relief of Williamstadt, The Midnight Wanderers No No No £198 8s 6d 45% N/A
03 May 1793 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, To Arms or The British Recruit, Two Strings to Your Bow, The Sea Storm No No Yes £450 2s 47% 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 Jun 1793 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, Robin Hood, Salley in Our Alley No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Oct 1793 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, Harlequin's Chaplet No No No £210 9s 100% N/A
19 Nov 1793 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, Mother Shipton Triumphant or Harlequin's Museum, The Burlesque Pas de Russe, God Save the King, Hornpipe No No No £233 2s 100% N/A
26 Dec 1793 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, Harlequin And Faustus No No No £333 5s 6d 100% N/A
13 Feb 1794 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, Harlequin And Faustus No No No £264 6d 100% N/A
07 May 1794 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, The Soldier's Festival or The Night before the Battle, The Sprigs Of Laurel Yes No Yes £362 15s 30% N/A
03 Jun 1794 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, Rosina, The Shipwreck Yes No Yes £301 10s 31% N/A
08 Jan 1795 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, Hercules and Omphale No No No £230 7s 6d 51% N/A
05 Mar 1795 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, Oscar and Malvina No No No £200 6s 6d 30% N/A
08 Oct 1795 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, Hartford Bridge, The Lucky Escape No No No £134 3s 6d 36% N/A
20 May 1796 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, The Positive Man, Imitations, The Beggar No No Yes £354 16s 6d N/A N/A
14 Oct 1796 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, The Wicklow Mountains No No No £215 10s 6d 100% N/A
05 Jun 1797 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, The Waterman, Harlequin and Oberon, A Leap through a Wheel of Fireworks and a Hoop of Daggers No No Yes £360 18s 49% N/A
19 Apr 1798 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, Oscar and Malvina No No No £146 2s 32% N/A
03 Oct 1798 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, The Spoiled Child No No No £249 9s 100% N/A
10 Oct 1798 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, The Spoiled Child No No No £218 2s 6d 100% N/A
07 May 1799 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, Tagg in Tribulation, Poor Vulcan, Old Towler, Imitations, The Beggar's Song No No Yes £392 3s 61% N/A
02 Oct 1799 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, Lock and Key No No No £307 14s 100% N/A
03 Jan 1800 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, The Volcano No No No £177 9s 6d 51% N/A
11 Jun 1800 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, The Turnpike Gate, New Hornpipe, The Little Farthing Rushlight, Scotch Pas Deux No No Yes £384 4s N/A N/A
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