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 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
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