Saturday 4 April 1778

Plays

Performances
The School for Scandal, Belphegor; or, The Wishes, The Savage Hunters
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£247 14s
Available Revenue
53%
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 £247 14s £235 7s £12 5s 6d 1s 6d £0
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £1 14s Stopages
Sub Total £1 14s
Total £249 8s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) £13 16s 6d Internal Certs.
Employees (Other) £359 13s 4d Internal Four Days Saly. at 89. 18. 4
Housekeeping £7 7s 11d Departmental Houseks. 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 £5 10s Internal Chorus
Supernumeraries £11 3s 6d Internal Sups.
Music Copyists 4s 6d Internal Daglish Bill
Musicians (Kettle Drums) £1 15s Internal K. Drum
Musicians (Trumpets) 15s Internal Two Ext Trumpets
Sheet Music Purchases £2 External Bindg Music
Mantuamaking 7s 10d Departmental Mants. Do [Bill]
Tailoring £2 18s 6d Departmental Taylor's Do. [Bill]
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £6 4s 6d Internal 7 Const. Candn. & 51 Exta. 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 8s External Printer
Miscellaneous 14s 6d External Edwards a Bill for Necysaries
Renters' Shares £8 External Renters
Total £437 17s 7d