The Birth-Day (1799)

Author
August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue
Author
Thomas John Dibdin
Work Type
Afterpiece
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
£13,214 18s £12,579 19s 6d (95.2%) £634 18s 6d (4.8%)
1732 - 1809
£13,214 18s - (100%) £12,579 19s 6d (95.2%) £634 18s 6d (4.8%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
45 43 2
1732 - 1809
45 43 2
Notes
Translated from August von Kotzebue
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
23 Oct 1800 Covent Garden Daphne and Amintor, The Birth-Day, Lock and Key No No No £112 15s 35% N/A
23 Apr 1801 Covent Garden The Birth Day, Paul and Virginia, The Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England No No Yes £635 7s 6d 39% N/A
03 Jun 1801 Covent Garden Paul and Virginia, The Birth Day, Il Bondocani No No Yes £268 7s 42% N/A
25 Mar 1802 Covent Garden The Birth Day, Perouse; or, The Desolate Island No Yes No £484 8s 6d 54% N/A
13 May 1802 Covent Garden The Birth Day, Il Bondocani, Brazen Mask; or, Alberto and Rosabella No No No £158 10s 6d 35% N/A
22 May 1802 Covent Garden The Birth Day, Rosina, Brazen Mask; or, Alberto and Rosabella No No No £236 16s 61% N/A
04 Jun 1802 Covent Garden The Cabinet, The Birth Day No No Yes £471 5s 6d 44% N/A
06 Oct 1803 Covent Garden Douglas, The Birth-Day No No No £289 7s 57% N/A
17 Dec 1803 Covent Garden The English Fleet in 1342, The Birth Day No No No £334 6d 54% N/A
01 Nov 1804 Covent Garden The Blind Bargain; or, Hear Him Out, The Birth-Day No No No £290 6d 66% N/A
04 Dec 1804 Covent Garden Douglas, The Birthday No No No £578 4s 75% N/A
02 Apr 1805 Covent Garden Douglas, The Birth-day No No No £463 55% N/A
12 Jun 1805 Covent Garden The School of Reform, The Birth Day No No Yes £490 10s 6d 38% N/A
10 Jun 1806 Covent Garden The Birth Day, Raising the Wind, Paul and Virginia, The Bay of Biscay O!, Tantivy, A comic song, Johnny and Boney; Or, the Bull and Bantam, Wapping Old Stairs No No Yes £370 16s N/A N/A
01 Jan 1807 Covent Garden Birth Day, Arbitration, Mother Goose No No No £319 2s 65% N/A
13 Jan 1807 Covent Garden Birth Day, Arbitration, Mother Goose No No No £390 19s 6d 60% N/A
10 Apr 1807 Covent Garden Birth Day, Whistle For It, Mother Goose No No No £247 17s 48% N/A
03 Jun 1807 Drury Lane Birth Day, Devil to Pay, Midas No No Yes £634 18s 6d 33% N/A
17 Jun 1807 Drury Lane The Birthday, The Fair Circassian, The Devil to Pay, The Bay of Biscay O!, The Storm No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Nov 1808 Covent Garden The Exile, The Birth Day No No No £356 13s 6d 50% N/A
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