Saturday 8 February 1777

Plays

Performances
Hamlet, A Christmas Tale
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£107 8s
Available Revenue
32%
Capacity
38%
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 £107 8s £105 10s 6d £0 £1 17s 6d £0
Total £107 8s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors 10s Internal Miss Field
Actors £3 Internal King's extra Sal
Employees (Other) £604 17s 6d Internal Six days Salary @ 100. 16. 3 Pr day
Lamplighters £5 2s Internal Lampmen
Singers £8 10s Internal Mrs Sherborne 17 Days not on List
Music Copyists £8 1s Internal Daglish & J Edward's bill
Mantuamaking £2 4s 8d Departmental Mantua Makers Do [bill]
Tailoring £2 15s 9d Departmental Taylors Do [bill]
Wardrobe (Other) £3 Internal Heath & 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 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.
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £9 4s Departmental Carpenter's bill
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £15 9s Internal 7 Const. super & Candle & (158) 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".
Bill Distribution 12s External Handbills
Bill Distribution £2 14s Internal Billstickers
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.
Travel and Accommodation £5 5s External Decamps expence for Voyage
Loan Repayments (as Debtor) £6 External L to G
Renters' Shares £8 External Rent
Total £702 11d