The Wheel of Fortune (1795)

Author
Richard Cumberland
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
£20,138 10s 6d £3,800 12s 6d (18.9%) £16,337 18s (81.1%)
1732 - 1809
£20,138 10s 6d - (100%) £3,800 12s 6d (18.9%) £16,337 18s (81.1%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
76 17 59
1732 - 1809
76 17 59
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
25 Nov 1800 Drury Lane The Wheel of Fortune, Blue Beard No No No £141 9s 40% N/A
24 Sep 1801 Drury Lane The Wheel of Fortune, Blue Beard; or, Female Curiosity No No No £315 10s 100% N/A
23 Jan 1802 Drury Lane The Wheel of Fortune, Urania; or, The Illumine No No No £266 15s 51% N/A
10 Mar 1804 Covent Garden The Wheel of Fortune, The Paragraph No No No £356 5s 66% N/A
17 Mar 1804 Covent Garden The Wheel of Fortune, The Paragraph No No No £238 16s 6d 45% N/A
14 Apr 1804 Covent Garden The Wheel of Fortune, Valentine and Orson No No No £286 17s 6d 70% N/A
30 Mar 1805 Covent Garden The Wheel of Fortune, Lock and Key No No No £249 11s 6d 31% N/A
02 Apr 1805 Drury Lane The Wheel of Fortune, Of Age Tomorrow No Yes No £375 7s 45% N/A
16 Apr 1805 Covent Garden The Wheel of Fortune, Aggression; or, The Heroine of Yucatan No No No £236 9s 29% N/A
14 May 1805 Drury Lane The Wheel of Fortune, The Anatomist No Yes No £353 17s 6d 67% N/A
10 Jun 1805 Covent Garden The Wheel of Fortune, The Shipwrecked Sailor, Raising the Wind, I'se Yorkshire Too, The Storm, A comic song, The Thorn No No Yes £348 11s N/A N/A
25 Sep 1805 Covent Garden The Wheel of Fortune, The Jew and the Doctor, Dermot and Kathlane; or, The Irish Wedding No No No £344 15s 100% N/A
26 Oct 1805 Drury Lane The Wheel of Fortune, The Devil to Pay No No No £120 8s 30% N/A
18 Nov 1805 Drury Lane The Wheel of Fortune, Nelson's Victory, The Weathercock No No No £216 10s 6d 41% N/A
06 Dec 1805 Covent Garden The Wheel of Fortune, The Wild Islanders; or, The Court of Pekin, The Follies of a Day No No No £139 17s 29% N/A
27 Mar 1806 Covent Garden The Wheel of Fortune, We Fly by Night No No No £273 12s 40% N/A
08 Apr 1806 Drury Lane The Wheel of Fortune, The Forty Thieves No No No £444 6s 6d 66% N/A
22 Apr 1806 Covent Garden The Wheel of Fortune, We Fly by Night No No No £135 10s 23% N/A
04 Dec 1806 Drury Lane The Wheel of Fortune, Tekeli; or, The Siege of Montgatz No No No £172 9s 6d 45% N/A
05 Jan 1807 Covent Garden Wheel of Fortune, Mother Goose No No No £418 12s 63% N/A
21 Feb 1807 Covent Garden Wheel of Fortune, Mother Goose No No No £366 9s 6d 51% N/A
18 Sep 1807 Covent Garden The Wheel of Fortune, The Escapes; of the Water Carrier No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Jan 1808 Covent Garden Wheel of Fortune, Harlequin in his Element No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 May 1808 Covent Garden The Wheel of Fortune, The Follies of A Day No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Mar 1809 Covent Garden The Wheel of Fortune, The Blind Boy No No No £267 7s 24% N/A
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