Saturday 10 May 1777

Plays

Performances
The School for Scandal, All the World's a Stage
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£240 10s 6d
Available Revenue
57%
Capacity
86%
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 £240 10s 6d £231 15s £8 7s 8s 6d £0
Total £240 10s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) £598 9s 6d Internal To six days Salary @ £99. 14. 11 Pr day
Housekeeping £29 17s 9d Departmental Housekeepers 3 bills Drury Lane normally in 1775-81, and sometimes in 1781-1802, included its properties bills (and perhaps some painters’ bills) in its housekeepers' bills, without distinguishing the amount paid on each. The relevant payments have been categorised “Housekeeping”, because the properties and painters evidently fell in the housekeepers’ remit in such cases, in both conceptual and practical terms. But note that properties and scene painters (if such they were) belong rather in “Properties, Scenes and Machines”.
Loan Repayments (as Debtor) £12 External L to G & Patts to L
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £9 6s Internal 7 Constant super &c (76) 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
Miscellaneous £6 Internal Badeleley In the 1776-77 season Drury Lane paid Sophia Baddeley a weekly clothes allowance and weekly benefit substitute, on this occasion lumped together.
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £5 1s 1d Departmental Carpenter's bill
Tailoring £5 3s Departmental Taylor's Do [bill]
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £5 Internal Younge
Lamplighters £5 2s Internal Lampmen
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £4 Internal Mrs Abington
Mantuamaking £3 4s 9d Departmental Mantua Maker's Do [bill]
Wardrobe (Other) £3 Internal Heath & Cooper
Actors £3 Internal Mr King
Singers £3 5s Internal Chorus Singers 3 Nights
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.
Music Copyists £1 14s Internal Daglish & Edwards
Bill Distribution 12s External Handbills
Actors 10s Internal Miss Field
Total £707 15s 1d