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 %
16 May 1772 Covent Garden The Brothers, The Padlock, Minuets, The Wapping Landlady, Allemandes, Cotillions, Sixfold Hornpipe No No Yes £252 6s 41% N/A
21 May 1772 Covent Garden King Lear, The Padlock, Minuet, The Wapping Landlady, Fingalian Dance, Sixfold Hornpipe No No Yes £203 8s 20% N/A
27 May 1772 Drury Lane The Ladies' Last Stake, The Padlock, The Sailors' Revels, Hornpipe No No Yes £276 5s 6d 47% N/A
01 Jun 1772 Drury Lane The West Indian, The Padlock, Hornpipe No No Yes £213 1s 6d 28% N/A
26 Sep 1772 Drury Lane The West Indian, The Padlock No No No £205 16s 6d 100% N/A
07 Oct 1772 Covent Garden Jane Shore, The Padlock, The Corsican Sailor's Punch House No No No £209 100% N/A
29 Oct 1772 Drury Lane Every Man In His Humour, The Padlock No No No £230 1s 6d 68% N/A
07 Nov 1772 Covent Garden King Henry VIII, The Padlock No No No £205 10s 48% N/A
18 Nov 1772 Covent Garden King Henry VIII, The Padlock No Yes No £235 1s 57% N/A
19 Dec 1772 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Padlock, The Soldier Tired of War's Alarms, The Merry Sailors Yes No Yes £250 10s 6d 61% N/A
22 Mar 1773 Covent Garden Macbeth, The Padlock No No Yes £249 9s 48% N/A
30 Mar 1773 Covent Garden The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great, The Padlock No No Yes £240 10s 6d 65% N/A
01 Apr 1773 Covent Garden She Stoops To Conquer, The Padlock No No No £243 10s 65% N/A
20 Apr 1773 Drury Lane Cymon, The Padlock No No Yes £217 19s 6d 51% N/A
24 Apr 1773 Covent Garden The Provok'd Husband, The Padlock, The Cumberland Cornthrashers, The Festival of the Black Prince, The Wapping Landlady, Hornpipe, Minuet No No Yes £230 9s 57% N/A
26 Apr 1773 Drury Lane The Chances, The Padlock No No No £232 3s 6d 71% N/A
28 Apr 1773 Covent Garden All For Love Or The World Well Lost, The Padlock, The Wapping Landlady, Sixfold Hornpipe No No Yes £98 9s 57% N/A
18 May 1773 Drury Lane The Fashionable Lover, The Padlock, A Dissertation upon Macaronies No No Yes £163 1s 6d 45% N/A
18 May 1773 Covent Garden Every Man In His Humour, The Padlock, The Merry Sailors, Minuet No No Yes £208 11s 55% N/A
21 May 1773 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Padlock, Hornpipe, Louvre, Minuet No No Yes £205 5s 6d 77% N/A
16 Oct 1773 Drury Lane Alfred, The Padlock Yes No No £122 5s 6d 40% N/A
22 Oct 1773 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Padlock No No No £239 17s 66% N/A
28 Oct 1773 Drury Lane Much Ado About Nothing, The Padlock No No No £251 15s 6d 58% N/A
06 Nov 1773 Covent Garden Macbeth, The Padlock No No No £237 19s 6d 47% N/A
12 Nov 1773 Covent Garden Cymbeline, The Padlock, The Highland Reel No No No £160 8s 6d 39% N/A
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