A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1633)

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
£7,154 2s £5,091 16s 6d (71.2%) £2,062 5s 6d (28.8%)
1732 - 1809
£7,154 2s - (100%) £5,091 16s 6d (71.2%) £2,062 5s 6d (28.8%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
52 29 23
1732 - 1809
52 29 23
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
19 Oct 1748 Drury Lane A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Savoyards, Gondoliers No No No £93 14s 6d N/A N/A
20 Oct 1748 Drury Lane A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Savoyards, Dance of Gondoliers No No No £95 100% N/A
21 Oct 1748 Drury Lane A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Miss in Her Teens, Savoyards, Dance of Gondoliers No No No £98 11s N/A N/A
23 Jan 1749 Drury Lane A New Way To Pay Old Debts, The Anatomist, New Scotch Dance, Savoyards Yes No No £98 1s 6d N/A N/A
11 May 1759 Drury Lane A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Tom Thumb, New Grand Dance, Hornpipe No No Yes £190 N/A N/A
08 May 1760 Drury Lane A New Way To Pay Old Debts, The Male Coquette, Ode to Echo, Hornpipe, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Oct 1769 Drury Lane A New Way To Pay Old Debts, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Oct 1769 Drury Lane A New Way To Pay Old Debts, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Oct 1769 Drury Lane A New Way To Pay Old Debts, The Jubilee No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Apr 1781 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, A Fete, Barnaby Brittle or A Wife at her Wits End No No Yes £283 8s 6d 65% N/A
26 Apr 1781 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Barnaby Brittle, The Humours of Leixlip No Yes No £247 10s 67% N/A
08 May 1781 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Barnaby Brittle, The Sports of the Green No No Yes £140 1s 6d 43% N/A
16 May 1781 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, The Farmer's Return from London, The Touchstone, St. David's Day No No Yes £265 18s 60% N/A
24 May 1781 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Midas No No No £89 6s 70% N/A
17 Sep 1781 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, The Marriage Act No No No £185 17s 6d 100% N/A
14 Dec 1781 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, The Son in Law, St David's Day; or, The Village Revels No No No £156 13s 51% N/A
16 Jan 1782 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, The Choice of Harlequin No No No £225 14s 61% N/A
01 Feb 1782 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, The Choice of Harlequin No No No £205 16s 49% N/A
02 Apr 1782 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Tom Thumb, The Gala, Allemande, Cotillons, Grand Figure, Minuet, Quadriles No No Yes £151 2s 54% N/A
01 Apr 1783 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Tom Thumb, Damon and Musidora No No Yes £280 12s 35% N/A
16 May 1783 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Comus, Tally Ho!, The Huntsman's Street Hallo No No Yes £202 6d 68% N/A
26 Sep 1783 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Tom Thumb No No No £178 2s 6d 100% N/A
14 Nov 1783 Drury Lane A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Fortunatus No No No £118 18s 6d 40% N/A
17 Nov 1783 Drury Lane A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Fortunatus No No No £134 14s 6d 46% N/A
04 Dec 1783 Drury Lane A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Fortunatus, New Comic Ballet No No No £102 13s 6d 31% N/A