Blue Devils (1798)

Author
George Colman, the younger
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
£1,291 £229 13s 6d (17.8%) £1,061 6s 6d (82.2%)
1732 - 1809
£1,291 - (100%) £229 13s 6d (17.8%) £1,061 6s 6d (82.2%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
11 1 10
1732 - 1809
11 1 10
Notes
"Taken from the French of Pratat" (London Stage).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
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
29 May 1807 Drury Lane The Siege of Belgrade, My Heart With Love is Beating, Blue Devils, The Fair Circassian, The Weathercock No No Yes £475 18s 52% N/A
18 May 1808 Drury Lane The Travellers, Blue Devils, There's Nae Luck About the House, Roy's Wife, Shepherd I Have Lost My Love, The Lass of Patie's Mill, My Heart is Sair I Dare Na' Tell, Farintosh in Auld Reekie, Come, My Sweet Love, To the Grove, Scotch Dance No No Yes £566 11s 6d N/A N/A
25 May 1808 Drury Lane The Wife of Two Husbands, Blue Devils, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £445 19s 6d 100% N/A
02 Jun 1808 Drury Lane The West Indian, Blue Devils, Ella Rosenberg No No No £87 13s N/A N/A
18 May 1809 Drury Lane Grieving's a Folly, Blue Devils, Jew and Doctor No No Yes £86 2s 6d N/A N/A
26 May 1809 Drury Lane Love in a Village, Blue Devils, Love in a Tub, Mayor of Garratt No No Yes £117 15s 6d N/A N/A
01 Jun 1809 Drury Lane Honey Moon, Blue Devils, Mayor of Garratt No No Yes £309 15s 6d 100% N/A
05 Jun 1809 Drury Lane Grieving's a Folly, Blue Devils, Blind Boy No No Yes £220 8s 100% N/A
06 Jun 1809 Drury Lane School for Scandal, Blue Devils, Weathercock No No Yes £359 3s 100% N/A
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