The Way to Get Married (1796)

Author
Thomas Morton
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
£15,133 11s 9d £14,594 13s 3d (96.4%) £538 18s 6d (3.6%)
1732 - 1809
£15,133 11s 9d - (100%) £14,594 13s 3d (96.4%) £538 18s 6d (3.6%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
56 55 1
1732 - 1809
56 55 1
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
19 Oct 1796 Covent Garden The Way To Get Married, Lock and Key No No No £131 11s 31% N/A
02 Nov 1796 Covent Garden The Way To Get Married, Lock and Key No Yes No £522 19s 67% N/A
08 Dec 1796 Covent Garden The Way To Get Married, Lock and Key No No No £102 18s 34% N/A
30 Dec 1796 Covent Garden The Way To Get Married, Harlequin and Oberon No No No £221 13s 59% N/A
01 Feb 1797 Covent Garden The Way To Get Married, Lock and Key No Yes No £436 5s 6d 66% N/A
19 Apr 1797 Covent Garden The Way To Get Married, What d'ye Call It, Tom Thumb No No Yes £352 6d 26% N/A
23 Dec 1797 Covent Garden The Way To Get Married, The Agreeable Surprise No No No £105 16s 41% N/A
26 Apr 1799 Covent Garden The Way To Get Married, British Fortitude, Lock and Key, Boxing The Compass, At Dawn Of Life Our Vows Were Plighted, Black Ey'd Susan, Fa La La, I was Called Knowing Joey, The Group of Lovers; Or, Beauty At Her Levee, The Land of Potatoes, The Turbaned Turk Who Scorns The World No No Yes £290 13s 34% N/A
01 Jun 1799 Covent Garden The Way To Get Married, The Vanguard; or, British Tars Regaling after Battle, The Virgin Unmasked, The Storm, Black Ey'd Susan, Sally in Our Alley No No Yes £416 7s 9d 22% N/A
25 Oct 1799 Covent Garden The Way To Get Married, The Honest Thieves No No No £251 2s 6d 100% N/A
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