Saturday 21 December 1776

Plays

Performances
Romeo and Juliet, Selima and Azor
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£128
Available Revenue
33%
Capacity
46%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £128 £92 13s £33 2s £2 5s £0
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Benefit deficiencies £34 6s Benefit deffcy the 17th Instant
Sub Total £34 6s
Total £162 6s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) £587 17s 6d Internal To Six days Salary @ Pr Day 97. 19. 7
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £11 9s 6d Internal 7 Constant super &c (105) 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".
Renters' Shares £8 External Rent
Dancers £8 8s Internal Madm Ricci
Miscellaneous £8 10s Internal Mrs Baddeleys Bent & Cloathes In the 1776-77 season Drury Lane paid Sophia Baddeley a wardrobe allowance and benefit substitute, often, as here, in the form of a weekly lump sum.
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £8 16s 2d Departmental Carpenter's bill
Tailoring £5 3d Departmental Taylor's Do [bill]
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £5 Internal Miss young's Cloathes
Lamplighters £4 10s Internal Lampmen
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £4 Internal Mrs Abington's Do [Cloathes]
Wardrobe (Other) £3 Internal Heath & Cooper
Actors £3 Internal Mr King's extra
Mantuamaking £3 5d Departmental Mantua Makers Do [bill]
Bill Distribution £2 14s Internal Billstickers
Music Copyists £1 Internal Daglish
Messengers and Porters £1 16s 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.
Singers £1 Internal Holcroft
Bill Distribution 12s External Handbills
Actors 10s Internal Miss Field
Total £668 3s 10d