Saturday 14 March 1778

Plays

Performances
The School for Scandal, The Deserter, Rural Grace
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£263 19s 6d
Available Revenue
61%
Capacity
94%
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 £263 19s 6d £251 5s £12 9s 6d 5s £0
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £1 14s Stopages
Sub Total £1 14s
Total £265 13s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £6 6s Internal Miss Simpson
Employees (Other) £89 18s 4d Internal By 4 Days Saly. at
Employees (Other) £13 16s 6d Internal Certs.
Housekeeping £7 7s Departmental House Bill 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”.
Lamplighters £4 10s Internal Lampmen
Singers £6 10s Internal Mr. Webb Chorus Grouped together with other entries as "Music Bills".
Supernumeraries £3 16s 6d Internal Sups.
Music Copyists £3 6d Internal Gaudry Music writg. Grouped together with other entries as "Music Bills".
Musicians (Kettle Drums) £1 10s Internal Neilson K Drum Grouped together with other entries as "Music Bills".
Mantuamaking £1 8s 10d Departmental Mants. Do [Bill]
Tailoring £1 16s Departmental Taylors Do. [Bill]
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £8 18s 6d Internal 7 Const. Sup Candn & 87 Ext 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".
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £1 14s 6d Departmental Carps. Bill
Bill Distribution £2 14s Internal Billstickers
Printing £8 17s 2d External Printer
Dividends £66 13s 4d External Const. Divd.
Funds and Trusts £200 External D: Fund Memoranda in the account book do not show the Debt Fund being drawn upon for any expenses between the previous payment into it and this one.
Renters' Shares £8 External Renters
Total £436 17s 2d