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 %
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
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