Saturday 17 October 1778

Plays

Performances
The Merchant of Venice, The Camp, Force of Love
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£225 12s
Available Revenue
N/A
Capacity
81%
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 £225 12s £193 8s £31 15s 9s £0
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £3 10s 8d Stopages
Sub Total £3 10s 8d
Total £229 2s 8d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) £357 14s 4d Internal Four Days Salary at 89. 8. 7
Employees (Other) £44 8s Internal Certain Sals.
Tailoring £25 14s Departmental Taylors Do. [Bill]
Clothing Purchase (Other) £22 1s External A Suit of Gold Embroidd. Mens Cloaths Bt. of. Mr. Santarelli
Housekeeping £14 3s 3d Departmental House Bill Properties & Painters £3. 3s. It is unclear whether the £3 3s relates only to "Painters" or to "Properties & Painters", hence this entry cannot be separated into its different parts. Drury Lane normally in 1775-81, and sometimes in 1781-1802, included its properties bills (and perhaps some painters’ bills, as here) 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”.
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £9 5s 4d Departmental Carps. Bill
Printing £8 17s 2d External Printer
Renters' Shares £8 External Rent
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £7 19s Internal 7 Const. Sup: Candn. & 74 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".
Lamplighters £4 10s Internal Lampmen
Bill Distribution £2 14s Internal Billstickers
Mantuamaking £2 17s 6d Departmental Mants. Do. [Bill]
Laundry and Dyeing 10s 6d Internal Edwards Washing Bill
Total £508 14s 1d