Thursday 3 October 1799

Plays

Performances
The Revenge, The Embarkation
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£340 14s 6d
Available Revenue
100%
Capacity
56%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Afterpiece: With appropriate Scenery, Dresses &c
The Music entirely new with a Naval and Military Medley
Overture composed by Reeve

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £340 14s 6d £225 17s £114 13s 6d 4s £0 Headcount for first account: Box (270), plus Free Box (392); Pit (562), plus Free Pit (71); F. Gall (348), plus Free F. Gall (23); and U. Gall. (234). Headcount for latter account: Box (647), plus Free Box (117); Pit (59), plus Free Pit (11); F. Gall (198); and U. Gall (73).
Box   £81 £97 1s
Pit   £98 7s £5 18s
First Gallery   £34 16s £9 18s
Upper Gallery   £11 14s £1 16s 6d
Total £340 14s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £31 10s Internal Mr. Kemble for 3 Nights Performances
Actors £5 16s 8d Internal Mr Wathen Listed under "Salaries by Dale Pd. 28th. Sepr. ".
Actors £4 3s 4d Internal Mr. Packer Listed under "Salaries by Dale Pd. 28th. Sepr. ".
Actors £2 10s Internal Mr. Trueman Listed under "Salaries by Dale Pd. 28th. Sepr. ".
Actors £1 10d Internal Mr. Webb Listed under "Salaries by Dale Pd. 28th. Sepr. ".
Cleaners £2 17s 6d Internal The Sweepers Listed under "Salaries by Dale Pd. 28th. Sepr. ".
Security £3 15s Internal The Constables 5 Days
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Danby Listed under "Salaries by Dale Pd. 28th. Sepr. ".
Singers £1 10d Internal Mr. Reynoldson Listed under "Salaries by Dale Pd. 28th. Sepr. ".
Singers £1 10d Internal Mr. Butler Listed under "Salaries by Dale Pd. 28th. Sepr.". Dale hereafter paid Mrs Butler, a singer, rather than Mr Butler, at this rate this season. She was probably the payee here too; perhaps a male relative collected the money for her, or perhaps the scribe wrote her title incorrectly. If, however, the recipient was indeed Mr Butler, he could have been a dancer or a house servant by that name.
Supernumeraries £10 Internal Supernumeraries by Thompson
Musicians (Band) £5 Internal Mr. Shaw Listed under "Salaries by Dale Pd. 28th. Sepr. ".
Production Design (Other) £5 5s External Underwood for Timber & Materials Materials used for the general production acivities overseen by Underwood.
Annuities £5 5s External Mr. Lacy Listed under "Salaries by Dale Pd. 28th. Sepr.". 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.
Total £80 10s