Blue Beard; or, Female Curiosity! (1798)

Author
George Colman, the younger
Composer
Michael Kelly
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Romance
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
£55,484 1s 6d £0 (0%) £55,484 1s 6d (100%)
1732 - 1809
£55,484 1s 6d - (100%) £0 (0%) £55,484 1s 6d (100%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
197 0 197
1732 - 1809
197 0 197
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
04 May 1798 Drury Lane The Stranger, Blue Beard No No No £226 10s 6d 71% N/A
09 May 1798 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Blue Beard, Bacchus et Ariadne No No Yes £686 4s 6d 65% N/A
14 May 1798 Drury Lane Hamlet, Blue Beard No No No £264 7s 6d 70% N/A
15 May 1798 Drury Lane The Stranger, Sylvester Daggerwood, Blue Beard No No Yes £522 9s 6d 69% N/A
16 May 1798 Drury Lane The Rivals, Blue Beard, Two Pas Seul, Kitty and Jemmy, New Pas Seul No No Yes £414 6d 74% N/A
17 May 1798 Drury Lane The Stranger, Blue Beard No No No £266 70% N/A
22 May 1798 Drury Lane The Stranger, Blue Beard No No No £296 18s 82% N/A
25 May 1798 Drury Lane The Stranger, Blue Beard No No No £299 4s 6d 80% N/A
28 May 1798 Drury Lane Isabella, Blue Beard, Epithalamium No No No £171 17s 6d 56% N/A
30 May 1798 Drury Lane The Italian Monk, The Follies of a Day, Blue Beard No No Yes £437 10s 6d 79% N/A
04 Jun 1798 Drury Lane Macbeth, Blue Beard No No No £207 1s 6d 79% N/A
05 Jun 1798 Drury Lane The Tempest, Sylvester Daggerwood, The Eleventh of June or The Daggerwoods at Dunstable, Blue Beard, Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite No No Yes £320 6s 6d 89% N/A
07 Jun 1798 Drury Lane The Mountaineers, Sylvester Daggerwood, The Eleventh of June, Blue Beard No No Yes £294 7s 80% N/A
12 Jun 1798 Drury Lane Ways And Means, The Wedding Day, Blue Beard, Fal Lal, Imitations No No Yes £496 10s 6d 100% N/A
06 Oct 1798 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Blue Beard or Female Curiosity No No No £441 16s 6d 100% N/A
09 Oct 1798 Drury Lane The Wheel Of Fortune, Blue Beard No No No £327 6d 100% N/A
11 Oct 1798 Drury Lane Much Ado About Nothing, Blue Beard, Sigh No More, Ladies No No No £219 14s 53% N/A
13 Oct 1798 Drury Lane The Beaux Stratagem, Blue Beard No No No £307 17s 6d 100% N/A
25 Oct 1798 Drury Lane The Wheel Of Fortune, Blue Beard No No No £188 10s 38% N/A
30 Oct 1798 Drury Lane The Jew, Blue Beard No No No £203 8s 46% N/A
05 Nov 1798 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Blue Beard No No No £239 9s 44% N/A
09 Nov 1798 Drury Lane The Jew, Blue Beard No No No £250 7s 49% N/A
12 Nov 1798 Drury Lane The Wheel Of Fortune, Blue Beard No No No £299 5s 45% N/A
26 Nov 1798 Drury Lane The London Merchant Or George Barnwell, Blue Beard No No No £289 1s 6d 45% N/A
27 Nov 1798 Drury Lane The Young Quaker, Blue Beard No No No £148 10s 6d 38% N/A
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