The Chances (1617)

Author
John Fletcher
Author
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1682)
Author
David Garrick (1773)
Work Type
Mainpiece
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
£12,975 2s 6d £3,375 2s (26%) £9,600 6d (74%)
1732 - 1809
£12,975 2s 6d - (100%) £3,375 2s (26%) £9,600 6d (74%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
84 24 60
1732 - 1809
84 24 60
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
03 Oct 1781 Covent Garden The Chances, Harlequin Free Mason No No No £159 8s 100% N/A
09 Jan 1782 Covent Garden The Chances, The Choice of Harlequin No Yes No £283 17s 58% N/A
24 Apr 1782 Covent Garden The Chances, The Upholsterer, The Double Surprise No No Yes £122 11s 31% N/A
14 May 1782 Drury Lane The Chances, Linco's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Hornpipe No No Yes £298 19s 19% N/A
26 Nov 1782 Drury Lane The Chances, Too Civil by Half No No No £71 13s 31% N/A
30 May 1783 Drury Lane The Chances, The Rival Candidates, The Devonshire Minuet No No Yes £297 4s 6d 32% N/A
19 Dec 1783 Drury Lane The Chances, Fortunatus No No No £74 18s 6d N/A N/A
07 Jan 1784 Covent Garden The Chances, Friar Bacon No No No £176 3s 40% N/A
15 Apr 1784 Covent Garden The Chances, Tom Thumb, The Belle of the Village No No Yes £168 2s 40% N/A
28 May 1784 Covent Garden The Chances, Poor Vulcan, The Charms of a Camp No No Yes £153 12s 100% N/A
21 Sep 1784 Covent Garden The Chances, The Poor Soldier No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Jan 1785 Drury Lane The Chances, The Caldron or Pantomimical Olio No No No £205 7s N/A N/A
03 Nov 1785 Drury Lane The Chances, Arthur and Emmeline, The Market Day No No No £95 2s 38% N/A
31 May 1786 Drury Lane The Chances, The Lyar, The Lucky Return No No Yes £249 4s 6d 52% N/A
27 Oct 1786 Drury Lane The Chances, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £138 19s 42% N/A
27 Nov 1786 Drury Lane The Chances, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £182 13s 6d 43% N/A
08 Jun 1787 Drury Lane The Chances, The Quaker, The Lucky Return No No Yes £284 1s 6d 24% N/A
13 Sep 1788 Drury Lane The Chances, The Waterman No No No £112 3s 6d 100% N/A
31 Oct 1788 Drury Lane The Chances, The Doctor and the Apothecary No No No £97 13s 6d 31% N/A
01 Jun 1791 Covent Garden The Chances, Love in a Camp, The Wapping Landlady, The Group of Lovers No No Yes £242 1s 6d 72% N/A
16 Jan 1793 Drury Lane The Chances, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £224 4s 32% N/A
12 Apr 1794 Covent Garden The Chances, Tristram Shandy, A Divertisement, Ballet No No Yes £469 13s 44% N/A
14 Jun 1794 Drury Lane The Chances, Lodoiska No No No £139 6s 6d 87% N/A
06 Jun 1795 Drury Lane The Chances, No Song No Supper, When 'Tis Night and the Mid Watch is Come, Hornpipe No No Yes £529 15s 43% N/A
17 Jan 1797 Drury Lane The Chances, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £177 1s 29% N/A
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