Saturday 13 March 1802

Plays

Performances
Artaxerxes, The Spoiled Child
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£404 15s
Available Revenue
53%
Capacity
66%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in Artaxerxes: Mandane, Mrs Billington
Mrs Billington will introduce a bravura song

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £404 15s £332 14s 6d £70 6d £2 £0
Total £404 15s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Funds and Trusts £135 External Sr. Rd. Ford & T. Hammersley Esqr. Trustees
Singers £105 Internal Mrs. Billington by Mr. Nield
Lighting (Other) £45 External Glossop, Lighting
Actors £40 Internal Mrs. Siddons
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £35 16s 5d Departmental Carpenters Day Money by Cheyne
Actors £31 10s Internal Mr. Kemble
Musicians (Band) £30 16s 6d Internal Band in the Orchestra
Leases (Ground and Buildings) £30 External His Grace the Duke of Bedford, Rent
Management £21 Internal Mr. Sheridan. do. [Board of] do. [Management]
Clothing Material (Other) £20 External Miss Rein for Materials, Winters Tale
Employees (Other) £18 12s Internal Dale for Servants Dale's list of payees sometimes included performers, hence its categorisation here as "Employees (Other)" rather than "House Servants (Other)".
Unknown £17 15s Unknown Paid by direction of the Proprietors
Stage Managers £12 12s Internal do. [Mr. Kemble] Management
Actors £12 Internal Pope & Mrs
Tailoring £12 9s 8d Departmental Gay Taylor on Acct.
Musicians (Band) £12 Internal Mr. Shaw, 9 days Salary
Printing £11 8s External Lowndes Printer
Printing £11 8s External Mrs. Lowndes, Printer
Supernumeraries £11 16s Internal Supernumeraries
Management £10 10s Internal Mr. Richardson, Board of Management
Management £10 10s Internal Mr. Grubb, 7 days Salary
Actors £8 10s Internal Bannister
Actors £8 Internal King
Singers £8 Internal Kelly
Actors £7 10s 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.
Singers £7 Internal Mrs. Crouch
Production Design (Other) £7 12s Departmental Johnston, Bill for Men &ca.
Actors £6 Internal Suett
Performers (Other) £6 Internal Decamp Maria Theresa De Camp, who acted, sung and danced.
Dancers £6 10s Internal Byrne & Mrs
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal do. [Johnston] Salary
Treasurers £6 6s 8d Internal Peake, Salary
Actors £5 Internal Barrymore
Actors £5 Internal C. Kemble
Singers £5 Internal T Welsh
Actors £5 10s Internal Pope
Actors £5 Internal Powell
Actors £5 Internal Young
Singers £5 Internal Bland
Dancers £5 Internal Women Dancers Brooker, Byrn, Riches, Drake, Briggs, Millett, Vining, Willis
Dressers £5 3s 6d Internal Dressers
Supernumeraries £5 Internal Soldiers in Pizarro
Scene Painters £5 5s Internal Greenwood do. [Painter]
Scene Painters £5 15s 6d Internal Jno. Bromley, Painter to 9th. Inst.
Scene Painters £5 15s 6d Internal Wm. Bromley, do [Painter] to 6th. do. [Inst.]
Actors £4 10s Internal Palmer
Actors £4 Internal Dowton
Actors £4 Internal Wathen
Actors £4 Internal Raymond
Singers £4 3s Internal J Welsh
Singers £4 10s Internal Mountain
Dancers £4 2s 6d Internal Men Dancers Whitmell, Wells, Johnston, Hartland, Gomery, Gomery, Mortram, Bayzand
Tailoring £4 19s 10d Departmental Gay Taylor
Books, Paper and Stationery £4 11s 1d External Stokes for Prompter's Stationary
Scene Painters £4 11s 9d Internal Mortram, do. [Painter to] do. [6th. Inst.]
Travel and Accommodation £4 13s 10d External Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Richardson, Burgess, & Peake, Post Chaise &ca. with Books to Staines & back
Singers £3 Internal Sedgwick
Actors £3 Internal Powell
Actors £3 Internal Wewitzer
Annuities £3 3s 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 £3 Internal Waldron & Harlowe
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein, Salary
Scene Painters £3 Internal Banks, Painter
Singers £2 Internal Dignum
Actors £2 Internal Holland
Prompters £2 Internal Powell, Prompter
Singers £2 Internal Cooke
Dancers £2 Internal Grimaldi
Actors £2 5s Internal Sparks & Mrs
Actors £2 10s Internal Ansell
Actors £2 10s Internal Mellon
Singers £2 10s Internal Stevens
Actors £2 Internal Caulfield
Security £2 5s Internal Constables
Performers (Other) £2 Internal Menage & Sister
Performers (Other) £2 2s 6d Internal Rhodes, Danby & Fisher
Cleaners £2 18s 6d Internal Sweepers
Treasurers £2 Internal Dunn
Laundry and Dyeing £2 8s 6d Internal Booth, Washing Bills to 6 March
Newspaper Advertisements £2 2s External Advertisements of Oratorios Presumed to be newspaper advertising.
Singers £2 10s 6d Internal Chorus
Scene Painters £2 12s 6d Internal Burford, do. [Painter to] 7 do. [Inst.]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 Internal Thompson
Actors £1 Internal Humphries
Dancers £1 Internal 2 Miss Bristoes
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Kelly & Ragg
Actors £1 10s Internal Sontley
Performers (Other) £1 7s 6d Internal Butler & Cuyler
Singers £1 5s Internal Elliott & Cook
Performers (Other) £1 Internal 2 Miss Hicks
Actors £1 10s Internal Decamp
Actors £1 5s Internal Tidswell
Actors £1 10s Internal Cambell Miss
Actors £1 10s Internal Cambell Mrs
Actors £1 15s Internal Maddocks & Mrs
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Evans & Webb
Employees (Other) £1 12s 6d Internal Sanders, Wentworth, & R Chatterley
Actors £1 Internal Surmont
Performers (Other) £1 13s 6d Internal Bannister & Haskey
Actors £1 Internal Stuart
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Ferraris
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 Internal Graham, Assistant
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal West, Messenger
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby. do. [Messenger]
Dressers £1 10s Internal Smith & Sister
House Servants (Other) £1 1s Internal Potts, Hallkeeper on Acct.
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Tuck, Tinman
Wardrobe (Other) £1 Internal Phillimore
Tailoring £1 16s Internal do. [Gay] Salary
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Bill Stickers
Employees (Other) £1 8s Internal Stokes & Mills do. [Salary]
Singers 10s Internal Coates
Singers 15s 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 10s Internal Mrs. Wells
Singers 15s Internal Danby Jun
Singers 10s Internal Tirrell
Hair, Beards and Wigs 12s Internal Brady
Dancers 10s Internal Watson
Singers 10s Internal Heather
Music Copyists 17s 6d Internal Wyber & Son
Actors 10s Internal Jones
Actors 15s Internal Chippendale
Singers 15s Internal Arne
Actors 15s Internal Purser
Books, Paper and Stationery 6d External Stamps
Mantuamaking 19s Departmental Mantua Women
Laundry and Dyeing 16s 6d Internal Clear starcher
Security 12s Internal Rigg
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Newspaper Advertisements 6s External Advertisement of Oratorio, Times
Travel and Accommodation 15s External West, Horse hire & Expences to Uxbridge
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Total £943 3s 9d