The Irishman in London; or, The Happy African (1792)

Author
William Macready
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
£17,465 2s £9,402 4s (53.8%) £8,062 18s (46.2%)
1732 - 1809
£17,465 2s - (100%) £9,402 4s (53.8%) £8,062 18s (46.2%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
74 45 29
1732 - 1809
74 45 29
Notes
Based partly on The Intriguing Footman (anon).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
21 Apr 1792 Covent Garden Love In A Village, The Irishman in London or The Happy African, Statute Dance, If You Travel the Wide World All Over No No Yes £389 14s 37% N/A
02 May 1792 Covent Garden The Rivals, The Irishman in London, Divertisement, If You Travel the Wide World All Over (A Planxty Descriptive of Ireland) No No Yes £361 9s 6d 23% N/A
11 May 1792 Covent Garden The Winter's Tale, The Irishman in London, The Golden Pippin, If You Travel the Wide World All Over, Come Let Us All a Maying Go, O Let the Merry Peal Go On, What Beauties Does Flora, When Arthur First in Court Began No No Yes £119 10s N/A N/A
16 May 1792 Covent Garden Fashionable Levities, The Farmer, The Irishman in London, If You Travel the Wide World All Over (A Planxty, Discriptive of Ireland), Jeu D'Esprit; or, Jerry Sneak's Intended Law Suit with the Major, My Little Pig Lays Without any Straw No No Yes £282 4s 6d 45% N/A
28 May 1792 Covent Garden Inkle And Yarico, The Irishman in London, The Wapping Landlady, If You Travel the Wide World All Over (A Planxty, Discriptive of Ireland), Black Eyed Susan, Can a Lover Pleasure Find, Sweet Bird No No Yes £385 13s N/A N/A
30 May 1792 Covent Garden Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave, The Irishman in London, Negro Dance, If You Travel the Wide World All Over, Jeu D'Esprit; or, Jerry Sneak's Intended Law Suit with the Major, My Little Pig Lays Without any Straw, The Group of Lovers; Or, Beauty At Her Levee No No Yes £326 6s 25% N/A
17 Sep 1792 Covent Garden A New Occasional Prelude, The Road To Ruin, The Irishman in London No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Oct 1792 Covent Garden Othello, The Irishman in London No No No £328 18s 100% N/A
11 Oct 1792 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, The Irishman in London No No No £292 19s 6d 67% N/A
18 Mar 1793 Covent Garden Wild Oats, Margaret of Anjou, The Irishman in London, Planxty Descriptive of Ireland No No Yes £365 6d 47% N/A
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