Saturday 22 February 1777

Plays

Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£198 5s 6d
Available Revenue
45%
Capacity
71%

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 £198 5s 6d £165 1s £31 14s £1 10s 6d £0
Total £198 5s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors 10s Internal Miss Field
Actors £2 Internal Mr Kings Extra Sal
Employees (Other) £403 5s Internal To 4 days Salary @ 100. 16. 3 Pr day
Lamplighters £5 2s Internal Lampmen
Music Copyists £1 12s Internal Daglish & Edwards
Musical Services and Supplies (Other) £6 7s 4d Internal Chorus & Music bills
Clothing Material (Lace) £12 12s External Simpson for Lace
Mantuamaking £3 10s Departmental Mantua Maker's Do [bill]
Tailoring £4 4d Departmental Taylor's Do [bill]
Wardrobe (Other) £3 Internal Heath & Cooper
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £3 6s 8d Internal Miss Youngs Cloaths
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £3 Internal Mrs Abington's Do [Cloaths]
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £9 6s 1d Departmental Carpenter's bill
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £11 8s Internal 7 Constant, super, &c (120) 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 8s 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.
Miscellaneous £4 Internal Mrs Baddeley's Do [Cloaths] & Benefit 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.
Loan Repayments (as Debtor) £6 External L to G
Renters' Shares £8 External Rent
Total £491 17s 5d