Saturday 24 May 1777

Plays

Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£246 5s
Available Revenue
54%
Capacity
88%

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 £246 5s £236 19s £8 17s 6d 8s 6d £0
Total £246 5s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors 10s Internal Miss Field
Actors £2 10s Internal Mr Kings extra Salary
Employees (Other) £497 9s 7d Internal To 5 days Salary @ 99: 9: 11 Pr day
Lamplighters £5 2s Internal Lampmen
Performers (Other) £1 18s 4d Internal Mr Legrand not on List this Week
Music Copyists £1 12s Internal Daglish & Edwards
Clothing Purchase (Other) £12 12s External Mr Grimaldi for Men's Cloaths
Mantuamaking £2 Departmental Mantua Makers Do [bill]
Tailoring £3 1d Departmental Taylor's Do [bill]
Wardrobe (Other) £3 Internal Heath & Cooper
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £4 3s 4d Internal Miss Young's Cloathes
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £4 Internal Mrs Abington Do [Cloathes]
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £2 11s 6d Departmental Carpenter's bill
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £6 Internal 7 Constant, Super, &c (40) 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 10s 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 £5 Internal Mrs Baddeley's Do [Cloathes] & Bent. 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 £576 8s 10d