Saturday 6 March 1802

Plays

Performances
Venice Preservd; or, A Plot Discovered, The Spoiled Child, The Scotch Ghost; or, Little Fanny's Love
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£332 15s 6d
Available Revenue
53%
Capacity
55%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in Venice Preserv'd: Jaffier, Mr Kemble; Belvidera, Mrs Siddons
End of the play, The Scotch Ghost

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £332 15s 6d £251 13s £79 6s £1 16s 6d £0
Total £332 15s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Lighting (Other) £60 External Glossop Lighting
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £43 11s 4d Departmental Carpenters Day Money by Cheyne
Musicians (Band) £41 2s Internal Band in the Orchestra
Employees (Other) £34 16s Internal Dale for Servants omitted 20 Feby Dale's list of payees sometimes included performers, hence its categorisation here as "Employees (Other)" rather than "House Servants (Other)".
Actors £31 10s Internal Mr. Kemble
Employees (Other) £24 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 £21 Internal Mr. Sheridan Board of Management
Actors £20 Internal Mrs. Siddons
Stage Managers £16 16s Internal do. [Mr. Kemble] Management
Actors £16 Internal Pope & Mrs
Tailoring £16 19s 3d Departmental do. [Gay] Bill for last Week
Actors £11 6s 8d Internal Bannister
Printing £11 8s External Mrs. Lowndes Printer
Actors £10 13s 4d Internal King
Singers £10 13s 4d Internal Kelly
Actors £10 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 £10 10s Internal Mr. Richardson, do. [Board of Management]
Treasurers £10 Internal Mr. Peake
Coal £10 External Mr. Michell, Coals this Season
Scene Painters £10 Internal Capon, Painter on Acct.
Singers £9 6s 8d Internal Crouch
Performers (Other) £9 6s 8d Internal Bland & Caulfield
Actors £8 Internal Suett
Dancers £8 13s 4d Internal Byrne & Mrs
Performers (Other) £8 Internal Decamp Maria Theresa De Camp, who acted, sung and danced.
Actors £7 6s 8d Internal Pope
Production Design (Other) £7 12s Departmental Johnston, Mens Bill
Weaponry £7 8s 6d External Girdler, Sword Cutler omitted 26 Feby
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Barrymore
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal C. Kemble
Singers £6 13s 4d Internal T Welsh
Actors £6 Internal Palmer
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Powell
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Young
Singers £6 Internal Mountain
Dancers £6 13s 4d Internal Women Dancers Brooker, Briggs, Byrn, Riches, Drake, Millett, Vining, Willi
Dressers £6 18s Internal Dressers
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal do. [Johnston] Salary
Lamplighters £6 6d Internal Lampmen
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Dowton
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Wathen
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Raymond
Dancers £5 10s Internal Men Dancers Whitmell, Wells, Comery, Gurion, Hartland, Bayzand, Johnston, Mortram
Scene Painters £5 5s Internal Greenwood
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £5 5s Internal Jacobs, Carpenter on Acct.
Actors £4 Internal Powell
Singers £4 Internal Sedgwick
Actors £4 Internal Wewitzer
Singers £4 9s 8d Internal J Welsh
Annuities £4 4s External 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.
Actors £3 Internal Sparks & Mrs
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Ansell
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Mellon
Singers £3 6s 8d Internal Stephens
Security £3 Internal Constables
Cleaners £3 18s Internal Sweepers
Scene Painters £3 Internal Banks
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Rein, Salary
Scene Painters £3 13s 6d Internal Clark Painter
Food and Drink £3 10s External Tavern Bill on Theatre Business, Proprietors
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Dignum
Prompters £2 13s 4d Internal Powell, Prompter
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Cooke
Actors £2 13s 4d Internal Holland
Dancers £2 13s 4d Internal Grimaldi
Actors £2 Internal Packer
Actors £2 Internal Decamp
Actors £2 6s 8d Internal Maddocks & Mrs
Actors £2 13s 4d Internal Harlowe
Performers (Other) £2 13s 4d Internal Menage & Sister
Actors £2 Internal Sontley
Actors £2 Internal Cambell Mrs
Actors £2 Internal Cambell Miss
Performers (Other) £2 4s 8d Internal Bannister & Haskey
Singers £2 10s Internal Danby, Rhodes & Danby Jun
Treasurers £2 Internal Dunn Note added to line: 2 days £1. 6. 8 0. 13. 4.
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 6s 8d Internal Thompson
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Humphries
Dancers £1 6s 8d Internal 2 Miss Bristoes
Singers £1 13s 4d Internal Sanders & Wentworth
Performers (Other) £1 6s 8d Internal Kelly & Ragg
Performers (Other) £1 16s 8d Internal Butler & Cuyler
Actors £1 13s 4d Internal Tidswell
Singers £1 13s 4d Internal Elliott & Cook
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Waldron
Employees (Other) £1 17s 4d Internal Stokes & Mills
Music Copyists £1 3s 4d Internal Wyber & Son
Performers (Other) £1 6s 8d Internal Hicks & Sister
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Fisher
Singers £1 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.
Performers (Other) £1 13s 4d Internal Evans & Webb
Performers (Other) £1 6s 8d Internal Miss Ferraris
Singers £1 Internal Arne
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Stuart
Actors £1 Internal Chippendale
Actors £1 Internal Purser
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Surmont
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 Internal Graham, Assistant
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby
Mantuamaking £1 9s Departmental Mantua Bill
Dressers £1 10s Internal Smith & Sister
Wardrobe (Other) £1 Internal Phillimore
House Servants (Other) £1 1s Internal Potts on Acct.
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Tuck, Tinman
Law £1 1s External Storey
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Gay Taylor Salary
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal West
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Bill Stickers
Food and Drink £1 1s External do. [Capon] for Sunday's dinner
Messengers and Porters 10s Internal R Chatterley
Singers 13s 4d Internal Coates
Hair, Beards and Wigs 16s Internal Brady
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Wells Mrs
Actors 13s 4d Internal Jones
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Watson
Singers 13s 4d Internal Heather
Singers 13s 4d Internal Tirrell
Security 12s Internal Rigg
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Total £731 14s 5d