Saturday 30 November 1776

Plays

Performances
Hamlet, Bon Ton; or High Life Above Stairs
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£106 11s
Available Revenue
45%
Capacity
38%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
The Old Batchelor and A Christmas Tale, both advertised on playbill of 29 Nov, are obliged to be deferred
Public Advertiser assigns Lucianus to Parsons

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £106 11s £106 11s £0 £0 £0
Total £106 11s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors 10s Internal Miss Field
Actors £3 Internal Mr King's extra Sal
Dancers £2 3s 4d Internal Mr Gallett's Bill
Employees (Other) £10 8s 8d Internal Messrs Lumiere, Rochfort, & Bridge not on List BD vol. 9, p. 379 suggests that the Lumiere who shared in this payment may have been a house servant. There does not seem to be a BD entry for Bridge. But there was a dancer named Rochfort employed at Drury Lane at this time, so this may in fact have been a payment to three dancers.
Employees (Other) £583 16s 6d Internal To six days Salary @ 97. 6. 1 Pr Day
Lamplighters £4 14s Internal Lampmen
Singers £2 10s Internal Chorus Singers this Week
Music Copyists £3 3s 9d Internal Daglish & bill Gaudry & Do [bill]
Mantuamaking £3 13s 4d Departmental Mantua Maker's Do [bill]
Tailoring £7 12s 1d Departmental Taylor's Do [bill]
Wardrobe (Other) £3 Internal Heath Wife & Cooper
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £5 Internal Miss Young's Cloathes
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £4 Internal Mrs Abington's Do [Cloathes]
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £6 Internal Mrs Baddeleys Do [Cloathes] In the 1776-77 season Drury Lane paid Sophia Baddeley a wardrobe allowance and benefit substitute, often in the form of a weekly lump sum. Sometimes, as here, the theatre paid her a weekly sum without mentioning both the wardrobe allowance and the benefit; on these occasions she may nevertheless have been paid both, but the payment has here been categorised purely by reference to what is mentioned in the record.
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £12 19s 6d Internal 7 Constant, super (125) Extra John Powel explains this recurrent DL payment in Tit for Tat (Houghton THE GEN TS 1574.316), p. 34, referring specifically to the 1747-49 seasons: "Four constant Supernumerary Scene-men to assist the Scene-men belonging to the House, and a Candle-Man, that see's all the Candles put out after the Play is over, at One Shilling each ... There are sometimes extraordinary Supernumerary Scene-men made use of in Plays to help at the Traps &c. such as Richard 3rd. Mackbeth, the Tempest &c. which have a Shilling each". Because the candleman was only a small part of the bundle, and was apparently considered to be close enough to the scenemen to be grouped with them, these payments have been categorised as "Carpentry and Sceneshifting".
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £9 6s 1d Departmental Carpenter's bill
Bill Distribution 12s External Handbills
Bill Distribution £2 14s Internal Billstickers
Messengers and Porters £3 12s Internal Stevens & Delater Stevens seems to have been a porter named James, paid a constant salary of 18s per week; despite the frequency of payments to him between 1771 and 1779, he does not seem to feature in BD. Nor does Delater, who only appears in the 1776-77 account book, evidently received the same salary as Stevens and only ever received it in conjunction with Stevens. Delater has therefore been assumed to be a porter too, but this may be incorrect.
Renters' Shares £8 External Rent
Total £676 15s 3d