The Padlock (1768)

Author
Isaac Bickerstaffe
Composer
Charles Dibdin
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Comedy
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
£31,920 13s £17,801 2s 6d (55.8%) £14,119 10s 6d (44.2%)
1732 - 1809
£31,920 13s - (100%) £17,801 2s 6d (55.8%) £14,119 10s 6d (44.2%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
284 111 173
1732 - 1809
284 111 173
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
24 Apr 1771 Covent Garden The Winter's Tale as Originally Written By Shakespeare, The Padlock No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 Apr 1771 Covent Garden Jane Shore, The Padlock, True Blue Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 May 1771 Covent Garden The Merchant Of Venice, The Padlock, The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 May 1771 Drury Lane The West Indian, The Padlock, The Allemande, The Shepherds Frolic Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 May 1771 Drury Lane Much Ado About Nothing, The Padlock, Country Dance, Allemande Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 May 1771 Covent Garden The Good natured Man, The Padlock, Dutch Milkmaid Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 Oct 1771 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Padlock, Comic Dance No No No £249 11s 6d 100% N/A
03 Oct 1771 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, The Padlock, Comic Dance No No No £185 17s 100% N/A
12 Oct 1771 Drury Lane The Clandestine Marriage, The Padlock No No No £214 18s 100% N/A
18 Oct 1771 Drury Lane The Gamester, The Padlock, Comic Dance Yes No No £114 9s 45% N/A
05 Nov 1771 Covent Garden Jane Shore, The Padlock, The Reel No No No £146 16s 6d 42% N/A
07 Nov 1771 Covent Garden Every Man In His Humour, The Padlock No No No £167 10s 50% N/A
13 Nov 1771 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Padlock No No No £252 4s 6d 52% N/A
16 Dec 1771 Covent Garden King Richard III, The Padlock Yes No No £148 10s 37% N/A
18 Dec 1771 Drury Lane Twelfth Night, The Padlock, The Sailors' Revels No No No £161 9s 54% N/A
20 Dec 1771 Covent Garden Oroonoko, The Padlock, The Corsican Sailor's Punch House No No Yes £251 16s 31% N/A
24 Jan 1772 Drury Lane The Fashionable Lover, The Padlock No No No £198 14s 6d N/A N/A
01 Feb 1772 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, The Padlock No No No £232 1s 6d 61% N/A
28 Feb 1772 Drury Lane Much Ado About Nothing, The Padlock No No No £258 13s 6d 58% N/A
04 Apr 1772 Covent Garden The Way Of The World, The Padlock, The Old Ground Young No No Yes £199 2s 6d 41% N/A
24 Apr 1772 Covent Garden The Suspicious Husband, The Padlock, The Fingalian Dance, The Wapping Landlady, Allemande, Double Hornpipe, Serious Dance, Sixfold Hornpipe, The Italian Gardner, The Rural Amusements of the Shepherds and Shepherdesses Yes No Yes £207 4s 6d 63% N/A
01 May 1772 Drury Lane Twelfth Night, The Padlock, Catches and Glees, The Sailors' Revels No No Yes £135 13s 47% N/A
06 May 1772 Covent Garden The Miser, The Padlock, The Rapture Yes No Yes £233 12s 54% N/A
08 May 1772 Drury Lane The Clandestine Marriage, The Padlock, The Louvre, Minuet No No Yes £158 9s 6d 43% N/A
15 May 1772 Drury Lane Cymon, The Padlock No No Yes £68 1s 6d 39% N/A
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