Saturday 5 April 1777

Plays

Event Type
Benefit
Revenue
£183 1s 6d
Available Revenue
44%
Capacity
65%

Beneficiary(ies)
Marianna Ricci
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Charge
£105
Additional Charge
Unknown

Notes
Tickets to be had of Sga Ricci at her House, No. 9 Warwick Street, Golden Square

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £117 17s 6d £95 £22 17s 6d £0 £0
Beneficiaries
Tickets Amount Box Pit Gallery Total
Marianna Ricci £65 4s N/A N/A N/A N/A
Total £183 1s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £1 Internal Miss Field 2 Weeks
Actors £3 Internal Mr Kings Extra
Employees (Other) £602 11s 6d Internal To six days Salary @ 100: 8: 7 Pr. day
House Servants (Other) £1 5s Internal Mr Thompson for Passion Week Perhaps John Thompson. He was a box officekeeper by the 1789-90 season, but at this stage his only certain activity was disbursing money to (and perhaps more generally managing, or being part of) the supernumeraries.
Lamplighters £6 Internal Lampmen 2 Weeks
Singers £8 10s Internal Chorus Singers
Music Copyists £3 4s Internal Daglish & Edwards 2 Do [Weeks]
Mantuamaking £4 Departmental Mantua Makers Do [bill] 2 Do [weeks]
Tailoring £4 13s 9d Departmental Taylors Do [bill] 2 weeks
Wardrobe (Other) £6 Internal Heath & Cooper 2 Weeks
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £5 Internal Miss Youngs Cloathes
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £4 Internal Mrs Abingtons Do [Cloathes]
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £5 5s 4d Departmental Carpenter's bill 2 weeks
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £13 8s 6d Internal 7 Constant & super &c (131) 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 £3 12s Internal Stevens & Delater 2 Do [Weeks] 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 £6 Internal Mrs Baddeley's Do [Cloathes] & 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) £12 External L to G & Patts to ballce L
Renters' Shares £8 External Rent
Total £700 16s 1d