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
£21,822 8s £12,665 8s 6d (58%) £9,156 19s 6d (42%)
1732 - 1809
£21,822 8s - (100%) £12,665 8s 6d (58%) £9,156 19s 6d (42%)
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 %
11 Dec 1795 Covent Garden Love In A Village, The Irishman in London No No No £113 18s 36% N/A
05 Apr 1796 Covent Garden Fontainbleau, British Fortitude and Hibernian Friendship or An Escape from France, The Irishman in London, I was Called Knowing Joey, At Dawn Of Life Our Vows Were Plighted, Fa La La, Old Towler, The Land of Potatoes, The Turbaned Turk Who Scorns The World, When Foaming Waves Contrary Beat No No Yes £466 4s 51% N/A
30 May 1796 Covent Garden Love In A Village, The Irishman in London, Highland Festivity No No Yes £226 4s 6d N/A N/A
21 Oct 1796 Covent Garden The Castle Of Andalusia, The Irishman in London No No No £243 18s 6d 100% N/A
28 Nov 1796 Covent Garden Abroad And At Home, The Irishman in London No No No £316 14s 6d 39% N/A
11 May 1797 Covent Garden Abroad And At Home, The Surrender of Trinidad or Safe Moord at Last, The Irishman in London, The Storm, Beauty At Her Levee, Black-Eyed Susan, Bravura Song, Jack At the Windlass, Negro Song, Oh Why to be Happy, Rule Britannia, The Row, The Wolf No No Yes £359 14s 50% N/A
20 May 1797 Covent Garden The Woodman, The Rendezvous, The Irishman in London, The Storm, In My Father's Mud Cabin, Old Towler, Shakespeare's Loadsters No No Yes £236 12s 46% N/A
31 Oct 1797 Covent Garden Abroad And At Home, The Irishman in London, Englands Glory No No No £149 4s 6d 45% N/A
18 Oct 1799 Covent Garden The Horse And The Widow, The Dramatist, The Irishman in London No No No £262 11s 6d 100% N/A
09 Jun 1801 Covent Garden Twelfth Night, play, The Irishman in London, When I was a Boy in My Father's Mud Edifice, No Flower That Blows, Black-Eyed Susan No No Yes £313 14s 6d 46% N/A
13 Oct 1801 Covent Garden Artaxerxes, The Irishman in London No No No £377 4s 75% N/A
16 Feb 1802 Covent Garden Love in a Village, The Irishman in London No No No £425 8s 6d 76% N/A
12 Jun 1802 Covent Garden The Beaux Stratagem, The Irishman in London No No Yes £394 15s N/A N/A
12 Oct 1802 Covent Garden The Cabinet, The Irishman in London No No No £355 15s 52% N/A
21 Jun 1803 Covent Garden The Cabinet, The Irishman in London No No No £302 17s 100% N/A
20 Sep 1803 Drury Lane The Marriage Promise, True Lovers' Knot, The Irishman in London No No No £261 18s 6d 100% N/A
24 Sep 1803 Drury Lane Pizarro, The Irishman in London No No No £331 10s 6d 42% N/A
27 Sep 1803 Covent Garden Isabella; or, The Fatal Marriage, The Irishman in London No No No £423 8s 63% N/A
27 Sep 1803 Drury Lane Pizarro, The Irishman in London No No No £243 16s 37% N/A
28 Sep 1803 Covent Garden The Man of the World, The Irishman in London No No No £242 1s 100% N/A
01 Oct 1803 Drury Lane Pizarro, The Irishman in London No No No £314 11s 100% N/A
22 Oct 1803 Covent Garden Family Quarrels, The Irishman in London No No No £258 8s 53% N/A
30 Nov 1803 Drury Lane The Wife of Two Husbands, The Irishman in London No No No £190 4s 39% N/A
15 Sep 1804 Drury Lane Soldier's Daughter, Irishman in London No No No £222 100% N/A
21 Sep 1804 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband; or, A Journey to London, The Irishman in London No No No £277 17s 6d 100% N/A
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