Comic Dance ()

Work Type
N/A
Performance Medium
Dance
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
£53,219 8s 6d £23,390 5s 9d (44%) £29,829 2s 9d (56%)
1732 - 1809
£53,219 8s 6d - (100%) £23,390 5s 9d (44%) £29,829 2s 9d (56%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
719 353 366
1732 - 1809
719 353 366
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
24 Apr 1755 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Dragon of Wantley, Hornpipe, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 Apr 1755 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Double Disappointment, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Apr 1755 Covent Garden The Relapse, The Cheats of Scapin, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Apr 1755 Covent Garden The Mourning Bride, Lady Moore or the Dragoness, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
29 Apr 1755 Covent Garden Venice Preserved, The Lying Valet, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 Apr 1755 Covent Garden The Non Juror, Miss in Her Teens, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 May 1755 Covent Garden The Way Of The World, The Virgin Unmasked, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 May 1755 Covent Garden King Henry IV Part I, The Virgin Unmasked, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
05 May 1755 Covent Garden Macbeth, Lady Moore or The Dragoness, The Cries of London, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
12 May 1755 Covent Garden The Old Batchelor, The Cheats of Scapin, Rule Britannia, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
15 May 1755 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Double Disappointment, Comic Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 May 1755 Covent Garden The Suspicious Husband, The Lying Valet, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 Sep 1755 Drury Lane The Mourning Bride, The Lottery, New Comic Dance No No No £100 100% N/A
02 Oct 1755 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The King and the Miller, New Comic Dance No No No £200 100% N/A
09 Oct 1755 Drury Lane The Fair Quaker, The Intriguing Chambermaid, New Comic Dance No No No £140 100% N/A
14 Oct 1755 Drury Lane Oroonoko, The Devil to Pay, New Comic Dance No No No £90 N/A N/A
24 Oct 1755 Drury Lane The Earl Of Essex, Lethe, New Comic Dance No No No £100 N/A N/A
04 Feb 1756 Drury Lane The Winter's Tale, Catherine and Petruchio, Comic Dance No No No £140 N/A N/A
05 Feb 1756 Drury Lane The Alchemist, Miss in Her Teens, New Comic Dance Yes No No £100 N/A N/A
07 Feb 1756 Drury Lane The Fair Quaker Of Deal, The Genii, New Comic Dance No No No £150 N/A N/A
14 Feb 1756 Drury Lane Hamlet, Lethe, New Comic Dance No No Yes £212 N/A N/A
21 Feb 1756 Drury Lane The Fair Quaker, The Genii, New Comic Dance Yes No No £120 N/A N/A
24 Feb 1756 Drury Lane Alls Well That Ends Well, The Genii, Comic Dance No No No £130 N/A N/A
02 Mar 1756 Drury Lane Alls Well That Ends Well, The Genii, New Comic Dance No No No £120 N/A N/A
08 Mar 1756 Drury Lane Alls Well That Ends Well, The Genii, New Comic Dance No No No £120 N/A N/A
13 Mar 1756 Drury Lane The Winter's Tale, Catherine and Petruchio, New Comic Dance Yes No No £170 N/A N/A
10 Apr 1756 Drury Lane Much Ado About Nothing, The Mock Orators, New Comic Dance No No Yes £220 N/A N/A
21 May 1756 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, Lethe, Last New Comic Dance, The Indian Peasants No No No £130 N/A N/A
24 May 1756 Drury Lane Love For Love, Lethe, The New Comic Dance, The Indian Peasants No No Yes £89 N/A N/A
16 Feb 1757 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Frenchified Lady, New Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Feb 1757 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, A Duke and no Duke, New Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Mar 1757 Drury Lane Jane Shore, The Englishman in Paris, New Comic Dance No No Yes £253 N/A N/A
02 May 1757 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Tamer Tamed, Comic Dance, Hornpipe, New Comic Dance No No Yes £160 N/A N/A
07 May 1757 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Lying Valet, Sing All Ye Muses, Hornpipe, New Comic Dances Yes No Yes £130 N/A N/A
09 May 1757 Drury Lane King Richard III, The Toyshop, Comic Dance No No Yes £180 N/A N/A
19 May 1757 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The King and Miller, Comic Dance, Hornpipe No No Yes £200 N/A N/A
26 May 1757 Drury Lane The Wonder, Mercury Harlequin, Comic Dance No No No £140 100% N/A
10 Apr 1758 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, The King and the Miller of Mansfield, New Spanish Dance, New Comic Dance No No Yes £150 N/A N/A
17 Apr 1758 Covent Garden King John, Catherine and Petruchio, Judgment of Paris, New Comic Dance No No Yes £167 19s N/A N/A
18 Apr 1758 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Harlequin Sorcerer, New Comic Dance No No No £66 4s 6d 23% N/A
20 Apr 1758 Covent Garden Coriolanus, The Knights, Prussian Sailors, Comic Dance, Grotesque Minuet, Roast Beef f Old England or The Antigallican No No Yes £152 6s N/A N/A
22 Apr 1758 Covent Garden The Merry Wives Of Windsor, The Contrivances, Hornpipe, Judgment of Paris, New Comic Dance No No Yes £239 12s 6d N/A N/A
08 May 1758 Covent Garden The Miser, The King and the Miller of Mansfield, Comic Dance No No Yes £127 4s 6d N/A N/A
09 May 1758 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Contrivances, Comic Dance No No Yes £179 11s N/A N/A
10 May 1758 Covent Garden Theodosius, Miss in Her Teens, New Comic Dance No No Yes £214 9s 6d N/A N/A
11 May 1758 Covent Garden Wit Without Money, A Duke and no Duke, new Comic Dance Yes No Yes £77 3s 6d N/A N/A
12 May 1758 Covent Garden The Committee, The Englishman Returned from Paris, New Comic Dance No No Yes £251 11s 6d N/A N/A
07 Apr 1759 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Reprisal or The Tars of Old England, Comic Dance No No Yes £180 N/A N/A
17 May 1759 Drury Lane The London Merchant, The Englishman in Paris, Hornpipe, Comic Dance No No Yes £190 N/A N/A
14 Nov 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The School Boy, Country Dance, Hornpipe, New Comic Dance No No No £132 18s 49% N/A
15 Nov 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Catherine and Petruchio, Country Dance, Hornpipe, New Comic Dance No No No £146 4s 43% N/A
16 Nov 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Knights, Country Dance, Hornpipe, New Comic Dance No No No £102 3s 42% N/A
17 Nov 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, A Duke and no Duke, Country Dance, Hornpipe, New Comic Dance No No No £105 6s 51% N/A
19 Nov 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Englishman Returned from Paris, Country Dance, Hornpipe, New Comic Dance No No No £151 17s 65% N/A
20 Nov 1759 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, Country Dance, Hornpipe, New Comic Dance No No No £97 2s 35% N/A
04 Jan 1760 Covent Garden The Mourning Bride, A Duke and no Duke, The Plowman, Comic Dance No No Yes £170 18s 42% N/A
08 Jan 1760 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Catherine and Petruchio, Hornpipe, Comic Dance, Country Dance No No No £184 18s 52% N/A
17 Jan 1760 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Knights, Hornpipe, Comic Dance, Country Dance No No No £167 8s N/A N/A
25 Jan 1760 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, Hornpipe, Comic Dance, Country Dance Yes No No £147 1s 6d N/A N/A
01 Feb 1760 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Catherine and Petruchio, Hornpipe, Comic Dance, Country Dance Yes No No £150 13s 6d N/A N/A
08 Feb 1760 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, Hornpipe, Comic Dance, Country Dance Yes No No £150 11s N/A N/A
16 Feb 1760 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, A Duke and no Duke, Comic Dance No No No £132 6d N/A N/A
18 Mar 1760 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Country Wake or Hob in the Well, Comic Dance, The Lamp Lighters Yes No Yes £269 6s 6d N/A N/A
22 Mar 1760 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, The Englishman Returned from Paris, Comic Dance, The Lamp Lighters Yes No Yes £272 15s N/A N/A
17 Apr 1760 Drury Lane The Alchemist, The Apprentice, The Cow Keepers, Hornpipe, New Comic Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Apr 1760 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Lethe, Comic Dance, The Knife Grinders No No Yes £33 11s 6d N/A N/A
22 Apr 1760 Covent Garden Othello, The Miller of Mansfield, Fingalian Dance, Comic Dance, Minuet, The Milk Maids Holiday Yes No Yes £104 1s 6d N/A N/A
24 Apr 1760 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, Flora or Hob in the Well, Comic Dance, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £193 13s N/A N/A
02 May 1760 Drury Lane The Rehearsal, The Cow Keepers, New Comic Dance No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
12 May 1760 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune, The Lying Valet, New Comic Dance, The Knife Grinders No No Yes £196 10s 6d N/A N/A
15 May 1760 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Flora, Comic Dance, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £226 6s 9d N/A N/A
17 May 1760 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Love a la Mode, The New Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 May 1760 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Contrivances, Comic Dance No No Yes £260 14s N/A N/A
27 May 1760 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, Love a la Mode, The New Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 May 1760 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, Love a la Mode, The New Comic Dance, The Sailor's Song, The Cow Keepers Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Jan 1761 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, A Duke and no Duke, The Colliers, New Comic Dance No No No £115 2s 6d N/A N/A
27 Jan 1761 Covent Garden The Miser, Thomas and Sally, New Comic Dance No No No £105 4s N/A N/A
09 Feb 1761 Covent Garden The Married Libertine, Love a la Mode, New Comic Dance No No No £138 1s 6d N/A N/A
27 Mar 1761 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Thomas and Sally, The Colliers, Comic Dance No No Yes £90 18s 6d N/A N/A
30 Mar 1761 Covent Garden King Richard III, The English Tars in America or The Good Woman Without a Head, Comic Dance No No Yes £257 11s 6d N/A N/A
01 Apr 1761 Covent Garden The Careless Husband, Love a la Mode, Comic Dance, Minuet No No Yes £126 2s N/A N/A
16 Apr 1761 Covent Garden The Wife's Relief, Florizel and Perdita, The New Comic Dance No No Yes £139 11s N/A N/A
18 Apr 1761 Drury Lane Douglas, The Chaplet, The Fingalian Dance, Comic Dance, Minuet, The Venetian Gondolier Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Apr 1761 Covent Garden Cleone, The Englishman in Paris, Comic Dance, New Comic Dance No No Yes £224 18s 6d N/A N/A
23 Apr 1761 Covent Garden The Jovial Crew, Thomas and Sally, Last New Comic Dance No No Yes £162 4s 6d N/A N/A
29 Apr 1761 Covent Garden The Royal Merchant, The Devil to Pay, The New Comic Dance No No Yes £224 15s N/A N/A
01 May 1761 Covent Garden King Henry V, The Englishman Returned from Paris, Last New Comic Dance, Heart of Oak, Hornpipe Yes No Yes £202 2s 6d N/A N/A
04 May 1761 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Lying Valet, Last New Comic Dance, Tea ala Mode, The Cries of London No No Yes £250 14s 6d N/A N/A
05 May 1761 Covent Garden King Richard III, Flora, Comic Dance No No Yes £234 18s 6d N/A N/A
08 May 1761 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Miss in Her Teens, The Cries of London, Hornpipe, Minuet, New Comic Dance, The Painter in Love, The Provincial Sailors No No Yes £198 6s N/A N/A
13 May 1761 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, Flora, New Comic Dance No No Yes £232 19s N/A N/A
14 May 1761 Covent Garden The Miser, Lethe, Last New Comic Dance No No Yes £215 13s N/A N/A
15 May 1761 Drury Lane The Stratagem, 1st Act of Taste and Modern Tragedy, Comic Dance Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Sep 1761 Drury Lane The Stratagem, Polly Honeycombe, New Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Oct 1761 Drury Lane Othello, The Coronation, Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Apr 1762 Covent Garden The Jealous Wife, Thomas and Sally, New Serious Dance, Handel's Water piece, Minuet, New Comic Dance, The Academy for Dancing, The Pleasures of Spring No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Apr 1762 Drury Lane Cymbeline, The Old Maid, Minuet, Comic Dance, Serious Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 May 1762 Drury Lane Hamlet, Catharine and Petruchio, Comic Dance, The Farmer's Return from London Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 May 1762 Drury Lane The Funeral, High Life below Stairs, Comic Dance, The Camp Alarm'd, The Farmer's Return from London No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1762 Drury Lane King Richard III, Love a la Mode, Comic Dance Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
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