Saturday 3 March 1798

Plays

Performances
Measure for Measure, Blue Beard; or, Female Curiosity!
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£404 9s 6d
Available Revenue
63%
Capacity
66%
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 £404 9s 6d £311 13s £91 3s 6d £1 13s £0
Total £404 9s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) £378 2s 8d Internal 4 Days Sals. £94: 10: 8
Actors £100 Internal Mrs. Siddons Liquidation
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £40 Departmental Carpenter's Bill on Acct.
Actors £30 Internal Caufield Bill
Stage Managers £21 Internal Mr. Wroughton
Actors £20 Internal Mrs. Siddons for Measure for Measure
Musicians (Other) £18 6s Internal D. of Gloster's Band 3. Nights
Printing £15 External Lowndes Printer on Acct.
Singers £12 Internal Chorus to 22nd. Feby
Loan Repayments (as Debtor) £10 External Do. [Mr. G.] for Wallis
Leases (Ground and Buildings) £10 External Mr. G. for D. of Bedford
Oil £9 8s 2d External Morris Oil
Lamplighters £6 1s Internal Lampmen this Week
Lighting (Other) £6 External Fosbrook Candles
Production Design (Other) £6 Departmental Do. [Johnstone] on Acct. of Bill
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal Johnstone Salary
Scene Painters £5 Internal Miss Greenwood
Mantuamaking £4 1s Departmental Mantua's Bill
Annuities £4 4s External Mr. Lacey Presumably a payment on Willoughby Lacey's annuity. BD vol. 9, pp. 108-10 states that, from 1804-05 through 1808-09 Lacey was paid £6 6s. per week as part of "an agreement that he was to receive one guinea from every performance. He also was paid periodically on his annuity but, as was usual with Sheridan, those payments frequently were in arrears"; and that Sheridan paid the second Mrs Lacey "18 guineas due on her husband's annuity" in 1804. However, frequent multiple-guinea payments (sometimes £6 6s) to a "Mr. Lacey" appear in the Drury Lane account books from the 1797-98 season onwards. This suggests that the £6 6s payments made between 1804-05 and 1808-09 in fact fell into a longer-running series of annuity payments.
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein Salary
Tailoring £3 5s 11d Departmental Taylors Bill
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr Greenwood
Security £3 3s Internal Carr Watchman on Acct.
Musicians (Trumpets) £2 5s Internal Thompson Trumpets to 24th
Scene Painters £2 2s Internal Chalmers
Musicians (Side Drums) £2 12s 6d Internal Wallis Side Drum to 27th
Laundry and Dyeing £2 15s 8d Internal Booth Washing Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £1 Internal Mrs. Linley for 2 Weeks to complete
Wardrobe (Other) £1 10s Internal Phillimore
Unknown £1 11s 6d Unknown Cressy for Blue Beards
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Do. [Taylors] Salary
Mantuamaking £1 6s Departmental Do. [Mantua's] Women
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Chatterley
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby
Treasurers £1 Internal Dunn on Acct.
Wardrobe (Other) 15s Internal Mrs. Smith
House Servants (Other) 6s 8d Internal Pilsbury Do. [2 Days]
House Servants (Other) 7s Internal Mrs. Maxwell 2 Days
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Total £736 7s 7d