Saturday 25 January 1777

Plays

Performances
The Tempest, A Christmas Tale, The Double Festival
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£186 7s
Available Revenue
41%
Capacity
67%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Merope advertised on playbill of 24 Jan is obliged to be deferred on Account of Palmer's Illness

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £186 7s £150 12s £34 6s £1 9s £0
Total £186 7s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors 10s Internal Miss Field
Actors £3 Internal Mr King's extra
Employees (Other) £601 17s 6d Internal To six days Salary @ 100. 6. 3 Pr day
Lamplighters £4 10s Internal Lampmen
Music Copyists £1 15s Internal Daglish
Mantuamaking £2 16s Departmental Mantua Maker's Do [bill]
Tailoring £4 9s 1d Departmental Taylor's Do [bill]
Wardrobe (Other) £3 Internal Heath & Cooper
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £6 Internal Mrs Baddeley's 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.
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £5 Internal Miss Youngs Cloathes
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £4 Internal Mrs Abington Do [Cloathes]
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £18 10s 6d Internal Constant, super &c (199) 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 5s 4d Departmental Carpenter's bill
Scene Painters £12 12s Internal Mr Williams painter by Do. [Mr Luthenbourg]
Scene Painters £41 13s 4d Internal Mr Luthenbourg
Bill Distribution 12s External Handbills
Bill Distribution £2 14s Internal Billstickers
Messengers and Porters £1 16s Internal Stevens & Delator 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 £732 9d