The Recruiting Serjeant (1770)

Composer
Charles Dibdin
Author
Isaac Bickerstaffe
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Ballad Opera/Burletta/Opera
Performance Medium
Musical
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
£895 1s 1d £368 6s (41.1%) £526 15s 1d (58.9%)
1732 - 1809
£895 1s 1d - (100%) £368 6s (41.1%) £526 15s 1d (58.9%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
11 4 7
1732 - 1809
11 4 7
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
07 Dec 1770 Drury Lane 'Tis Well Its No Worse, The Recruiting Serjeant No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Jan 1771 Drury Lane Almida, Wits Last Stake, The Recruiting Serjeant No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 May 1773 Drury Lane Tancred And Sigismunda, The Lottery, The Recruiting Serjeant No No Yes £151 6s 20% N/A
22 May 1773 Drury Lane Zara, The Irish Widow, The Irish Fair, The Recruiting Serjeant Yes No No £215 13s 1d 91% N/A
15 Apr 1782 Drury Lane Dissipation, The Recruiting Serjeant, A Trip to Scotland, Postilion Dance, Country Dance No No Yes £249 17s 45% N/A
30 Apr 1782 Drury Lane The Jealous Wife, The Recruiting Serjeant, The Irish Widow No No Yes £172 2s 6d 37% N/A
03 Jun 1789 Drury Lane The Recruiting Serjeant, Love for Love, The Honest Yorkshireman, Wake Sons of Odin No No Yes £123 2s 6d 42% N/A
07 May 1790 Covent Garden She Stoops To Conquer, The Recruiting Serjeant, Rose and Colin No No Yes £302 18s 57% N/A
30 May 1805 Covent Garden Guilty or Not Guilty, The Recruiting Serjeant, Lovers' Quarrels, Solomon Gundy's Chanson, The Chapter of Fashions, Black-Eyed Susan No No Yes £428 17s 6d 40% N/A
29 Mar 1806 Covent Garden The Chances, The Recruiting Serjeant, We Fly by Night No No Yes £307 18s 6d 37% N/A
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