May Day; or, The Little Gipsy (1775)

Author
David Garrick
Composer
Thomas Augustine Arne
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
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
£4,933 3s £607 13s (12.3%) £4,325 10s (87.7%)
1732 - 1809
£4,933 3s - (100%) £607 13s (12.3%) £4,325 10s (87.7%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
21 2 19
1732 - 1809
21 2 19
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
18 Dec 1775 Drury Lane Every Man In His Humour, May Day No No No £242 6s N/A N/A
22 Jan 1776 Drury Lane The Discovery, May Day No No No £279 6d N/A N/A
31 Jan 1776 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, May Day No No No £286 10s N/A N/A
07 Feb 1776 Drury Lane The Discovery, May Day No Yes No £290 3s N/A N/A
15 Feb 1776 Drury Lane The Runaway, May Day No No No £256 5s 6d N/A N/A
27 Apr 1776 Drury Lane Hamlet, May Day No No No £297 6s 6d N/A N/A
24 Sep 1776 Drury Lane New Brooms, Jane Shore, May Day or The Little Gipsy No No No £246 8s 6d 100% N/A
16 May 1777 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, May Day No No No £262 14s 54% N/A
23 May 1777 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, May Day No No No £247 11s 92% N/A
01 May 1793 Covent Garden May Day Or The Little Gipsey, Fashionable Levities, The Soldier's Festival, Hartford Bridge, The Lucky Escape No No Yes £347 16s 6d 58% N/A
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