Saturday 9 January 1802

Plays

Performances
The Beggar's Opera, Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroyed
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£227 7s 6d
Available Revenue
39%
Capacity
37%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in The Beggar's Opera: Captain Macheath, Mr Kelly; Polly Peachum, Mrs Mountain; Lucy Lockit, Miss De Camp

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £227 7s 6d £166 8s 6d £59 17s £1 2s £0
Total £227 7s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Lighting (Other) £90 External Glossop Lighting
Musicians (Band) £61 13s Internal Band of the Orchestra
Actors £60 Internal Mrs. Siddons
Actors £52 10s Internal Mr. Kemble 5 Nights Acting
Employees (Other) £32 5s Internal Dale for Servants Dale's list of payees sometimes included performers, hence its categorisation here as "Employees (Other)" rather than "House Servants (Other)".
Management £31 10s Internal Mr. Sheridan Board of Management
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £31 12s 1d Departmental Carpenters to compleat last Week
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal do. [Mr. Kemble] one Weeks Management
Actors £17 Internal Bannister
Actors £16 Internal King
Singers £16 Internal Kelly
Actors £15 Internal Wroughton BD vol. 16, p. 299 seems to suggest that Wroughton's second stint as stage manager began in 1800, but it was only from the 1804-05 season onwards that account books called him "Manager", and his salary payments 1800-04 suggest he was only an actor during that period.
Management £15 15s Internal Mr. Richardson, Do. [Board of] Do [Management]
Singers £14 Internal Crouch
Printing £14 9s External Lowndes Printer
Dancers £13 Internal Byrne & Mrs. do. [Byrne]
Actors £12 Internal Suett
Performers (Other) £12 Internal Decamp Maria Theresa De Camp, who acted, sung and danced.
Tailoring £12 5s 9d Departmental Taylors Bill
Actors £11 Internal Pope
Actors £10 Internal C. Kemble
Actors £10 Internal Barrymore
Singers £10 Internal T Welsh
Singers £10 Internal Bland
Actors £10 Internal Powell
Actors £10 Internal Biggs
Treasurers £10 Internal Mr. Peake
Dressers £10 7s Internal The Dressers
Singers £9 Internal Mountain
Actors £8 Internal Dowton
Actors £8 Internal Palmer
Actors £8 Internal Wathen
Actors £8 Internal Raymond
Production Design (Other) £8 2s Departmental Johnston
Actors £6 Internal Powell
Singers £6 Internal Sedgwick
Dancers £6 Internal Mortram, Gurion, Gomery, Bayzand, Hartland, Wells
Actors £6 Internal Wewitzer
Annuities £6 6s External Lacy 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.
Actors £6 Internal Waldron & Harlow
Lamplighters £6 10s 6d Internal Lampmen
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal do. [Johnston] Salary
Singers £5 3s Internal J Welsh
Actors £5 Internal Mellon
Actors £5 Internal Ansell
Cleaners £5 17s Internal Sweepers
Singers £5 Internal Stevens
Scene Painters £5 5s Internal Greenwood
Actors £4 Internal Caulfield
Singers £4 Internal Dignum
Singers £4 Internal Cooke
Actors £4 Internal Holland
Prompters £4 Internal Powell, Prompter
Dancers £4 Internal Grimaldi
Performers (Other) £4 5s Internal Rhodes, Fisher & Danby
Actors £4 10s Internal Sparks & Wife
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Performers (Other) £4 Internal Menage & Sister
Singers £4 Internal Tyrer
Actors £3 10s Internal Maddocks & Wife
Actors £3 Internal Decamp
Actors £3 Internal Packer
Singers £3 Internal Jacobs
Performers (Other) £3 7s Internal Bannister & Haskey
Actors £3 Internal Cambell
Actors £3 Internal Sontley
Actors £3 Internal Cambell Miss
Scene Painters £3 Internal Banks
Dressers £3 Internal Smith & Sister
House Servants (Other) £3 3s Internal Potts, Hall keeper
Dancers £2 5s Internal Whitmell & Johnston
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 Internal Thompson
Dancers £2 Internal 2 Miss Bristoes
Employees (Other) £2 16s Internal Stokes & Mills
Performers (Other) £2 Internal Ferraris Miss
Dancers £2 10s Internal Drake & Millett
Actors £2 Internal Surmont
Actors £2 10s Internal Tidswell
Actors £2 Internal Stuart
Treasurers £2 Internal Dunn
Actors £2 Internal Humphries
Performers (Other) £2 Internal Hicks & Sister
Law £2 2s External Storey
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 Internal Brown, Upper Gallery, Office keeper on Acct. of Salary
Singers £1 10s Internal Danby Senr
Dancers £1 5s Internal Riches
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Evans
Actors £1 5s Internal Webb
Singers £1 5s Internal Elliott
Singers £1 5s Internal Cook
Dancers £1 Internal Mrs. Wells
Singers £1 Internal Kelly
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Ragg
Singers £1 5s Internal Butler
Actors £1 10s Internal Cuyler
Singers £1 Internal Coates
Singers £1 Internal Heather
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 4s Internal Brady
Dancers £1 5s Internal Brooker
Singers £1 Internal Sanders
Singers £1 10s Internal Wentworth
Actors £1 10s Internal Chippendale
Music Copyists £1 15s Internal Wyber & Son
Singers £1 Internal Tirrell
Dancers £1 Internal Watson
Actors £1 Internal Jones
Singers £1 10s Internal Gibbon BD vol. 6, pp. 167-9 expresses uncertainty over the timeline of the Gibbons, but speculates that the actor, Mr. Gibbon, was paid until the end of 1802-03, at which point the singer, James Deverell Gibbon, began to be paid in his stead. But the nature of the payments, and the fact that Gibbon was paid sometimes with the singer Elliott in 1801-02, suggest that BD is mistaken, and that James Deverell Gibbon was the recipient as early as 1801-02.
Dancers £1 5s Internal Briggs
Actors £1 10s Internal Purser
Singers £1 10s Internal Arne
Dancers £1 5s Internal Willis
Dancers £1 5s Internal Byrn
Dancers £1 5s Internal Vining
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Bill Stickers
Wardrobe (Other) £1 Internal Phillimore
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal West
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Tuck, Tinman
Tailoring £1 16s Internal do. [Taylors] Salary
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby
Mantuamaking £1 16s Departmental Mantua Women
Messengers and Porters 15s Internal R. Chatterley
Security 12s Internal Rigg
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Total £920 18s 4d