Saturday 28 January 1797

Plays

Performances
Theodosius; or, The Force of Love, Richard Coeur de Lion [Burgoyne]
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£152 19s 6d
Available Revenue
33%
Capacity
25%
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 £152 19s 6d £94 7s 6d £56 7s £2 5s £0 Headcount for first account: Box (102), plus Free Box (273); Pit (275), plus Free Pit (35); F. Gall (108), plus Free F. Gall (2); and U. Gall. (97). Headcount for latter account: Box (226), plus Free Box (63); Pit (127), plus Free Pit (10); F. Gall (138); and U. Gall (114).
Box   £30 12s £33 18s
Pit   £48 2s 6d £12 14s
First Gallery   £10 16s £6 18s
Upper Gallery   £4 17s £2 17s
Total £152 19s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 12s Internal Dale counting Coppers 52. Days
Employees (Other) £582 9s Internal 6 Days Salaries at £97. 1. 6
Prompters £1 10s Internal Stokes Do. [Salary]
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Supernumeraries £20 Internal Supernumeraries
Music Copyists £2 2s Internal Wyber Do. [Music Copying]
Music Copyists £1 1s Internal Vigano on Account Presumably for music copying, as in the only other four recorded payments to Vigano: 1 December 1789, and 17 and 24 December 1796. However, there were multiple musicians named Vigano active at this time, fulfilling various music activities outside and perhaps also within Drury Lane.
Music Copyists £1 1s Internal Buckholtz Music Copying
Sheet Music Purchases £3 15s External Music Paper
Clothing Material (Other) £6 13s 2d External Rein to Buy materials
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Gay Taylor Do. [Salary]
Tailoring £7 7s Departmental Taylors Bill on Account
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £60 Departmental Carpenters on Acct.
Scene Painters 15s Internal Maranari's Bill
Newspaper Advertisements £15 6s External Morning Post Do. [in full]
Newspaper Advertisements £5 17s External Sunday Reformer in full
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby Salary
Loans Made (as Creditor) £1 3d Internal Mr. Peake advanced last Week
Total £715 5s 11d