The Heir at Law (1797)

Author
George Colman, the younger
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
£5,147 15s 6d £4,220 4s (82%) £927 11s 6d (18%)
1732 - 1809
£5,147 15s 6d - (100%) £4,220 4s (82%) £927 11s 6d (18%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
24 19 5
1732 - 1809
24 19 5
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
12 Dec 1797 Covent Garden The Heir At Law, The Round Tower No No No £138 6d 60% N/A
20 Dec 1797 Covent Garden The Heir At Law, The Guardian No Yes No £437 5s 6d 58% N/A
01 Mar 1798 Covent Garden The Heir At Law, Joan of Arc, Harp No Yes No £373 15s 6d 44% N/A
24 Apr 1798 Covent Garden The Heir At Law, The Sailor's Prize, Blue Devils, Sea Ballad, Travels of Trudge, Fat Dolly The Cook, Hearts of Oak, Master Teddy Shemus O'Shaughnessey O'Finnigen Delany's History of Himself, Rule Britannia, Soldier's Song No No Yes £501 18s 48% N/A
08 May 1798 Covent Garden The Heir At Law, The Quarter Deck; or, Half an Hour's Festivity, Botheration or A Ten Years Blunder, Hornpipe, Old Towler, Black Ey'd Susan, Mr O'Blarney's Description of London including His Remarks on St James's, St Giles's, St Paul's, Debating Clubs, Squares, Gardens, the Monument, Wigs and Crops, Boarding Schools, Inns, Fields, Soldiers, Sailors and Volunteers No No Yes £440 13s 49% N/A
14 Mar 1799 Covent Garden The Heir At Law, Oscar and Malvina, Come Every Jovial Fellow, O Ever in My Bosom No Yes No £379 16s 58% N/A
26 Apr 1800 Covent Garden The Heir At Law, The Social Songsters, The Castle of Sorrento No No Yes £535 6s 41% N/A
06 May 1800 Covent Garden The Heir At Law, The Sons of Anacreon, The Castle of Sorrento, The Witches No No Yes £406 9s 39% N/A
07 Feb 1801 Covent Garden The Heir at Law, Il Bondocani No No No £238 12s 6d 49% N/A
05 Jun 1801 Covent Garden The Heir at Law, Obi; or, Three-Finger'd Jack No No Yes £255 13s 6d 60% N/A
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