Saturday 28 November 1778

Plays

Performances
The Old Bachelor, The Camp
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£123 6s 6d
Available Revenue
N/A
Capacity
44%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Mainpiece: with alterations by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The new comedy of The Fathers, advertised on playbill of 27 Nov, is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £123 6s 6d £89 14s £32 19s 13s 6d £0
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £9 17s Stopages
Sub Total £9 17s
Total £133 3s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) £499 15s 6d Internal By 6 Days Salary at 83. 5. 11
Employees (Other) £44 8s Internal Weekly const: Sals.
House Servants (Other) £10 10s Internal Mr. Des Moulins on Acct. pr. Order
Housekeeping £15 12s 9d Departmental Housekeeper to 21st. inclus 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 £8 15s Internal Mr. Webb. Chorus to 27th. inclus
Musicians (Kettle Drums) £1 10s Internal Mr. Neilson K: Drum Do. [to 27th. inclus]
Mantuamaking 16s Departmental Mants.
Tailoring £3 19s 1d Departmental Taylor's Do. [Bill]
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £12 4s 6d Internal 7 Const: Candn. & 115 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 £7 18s 6d Departmental Carps. Bill
Bill Distribution £2 14s Internal Billstickers
Renters' Shares £8 External Renters
Total £620 13s 4d