Tuesday 1 October 1799

Plays

Performances
As You Like It, High Life Below Stairs, Mock Minuet
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£274 17s
Available Revenue
100%
Capacity
45%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Mainpiece in place of King Richard III, advertised on playbill of 28 Sept

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £274 17s £177 3s £97 6s 8s £0 Headcount for first account: Box (218), plus Free Box (334); Pit (402), plus Free Pit (43); F. Gall (316), plus Free F. Gall (47); and U. Gall. (196). Headcount for latter account: Box (476), plus Free Box (53); Pit (138), plus Free Pit (7); F. Gall (195), plus Free F. Gall (4); and U. Gall (94).
Box   £65 8s £71 8s
Pit   £70 7s £13 16s
First Gallery   £31 12s £9 15s
Upper Gallery   £9 16s £2 7s
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Loans received £600 Advanced for the Old Renters by Mess.rs Wright, Burgess, PEake, Graham, Jackson & Ridgway
Sub Total £600
Total £874 17s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £2 2s Internal Miss Humphries on Accot.
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £4 4s Internal Bynam Arrears of Saly
Stage Managers £5 Internal Mr. Aikin Second Week's Managemt.
Stage Managers £2 10s Internal Do. [Mr. Aikin] Arrears of Old debt
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £7 2s Departmental Carpenters by Cheyne
Production Design (Other) £10 Departmental Johnston for Blue Beard
Candles (Tallow) £5 12s 8d External Rablus Tallow Chandler
Lighting (Other) £1 13s External Candles Do. [by Cheyne] (Incident.)
Printing £5 5s External Mrs. Lowndes Printer
Management £5 5s Internal Mr. Richardson
Loan Repayments (as Debtor) £20 External Mr. Fosbrook 3d. Paymt. of Advance for Old Rents.
Renters' Shares £689 11s 6d External 3d. Paymt. to Old Renters making the Sum so paid in the whole £2,249. 16. 8 which was paid to the following Persons as pr. Banker's Book There follows 129 individual payments to old renters, totalling £2146 11s 8d, which is £103 5s 0d less than the sum paid into the Old Renters account. There is also a further payment to the same account later in the season - 10 December 1799 - of £122 3s 4d, which, as the relevant entry states, brings the old renters' total to £2372. The itemised renters have been recorded in a separate part of the database.
Total £758 5s 2d