Saturday 20 March 1802

Plays

Performances
Venice Preservd; or, A Plot Discovered, The Festival of Bacchus, An Old Man Taught Wisdom; or, The Virgin Unmasked
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£290 8s
Available Revenue
44%
Capacity
48%
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

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £290 8s £226 3s 6d £60 2s £4 2s 6d £0
Total £290 8s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Lighting (Other) £60 External Glossop Lighting
Musicians (Band) £41 2s Internal Band in the Orchestra
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £33 16s 8d Departmental Carpenters Day Money
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 Siddons
Printing £20 12s External Lowndes Printer
Tailoring £20 Departmental do. [Gay] on Acct. of Bills
Tailoring £19 4s 6d Departmental Gay Taylor, Mens Bills
Stage Managers £16 16s Internal do. [Mr. Kemble] Management
Actors £16 Internal Pope & Mrs
Actors £11 6s 8d Internal Bannister
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] do. [Management]
Scene Painters £10 Internal Capon, Painter on Acct.
Law £10 Internal Mr. Burgess on Acct. Salary
Singers £9 6s 8d Internal Crouch
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.
Treasurers £8 13s 4d Internal Peake
Production Design (Other) £8 8s Departmental do. [Johnston] for Men
Actors £7 6s 8d Internal Pope
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
Singers £6 13s 4d Internal Bland
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Young
Singers £6 Internal Mountain
Dancers £6 13s 4d Internal Women Dancers Brooker, Briggs, Byrn, Drake, Willis, Riches, Vining, Millett
Dressers £6 18s Internal Dressers
Management £6 Internal Mr. Grubb
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal Johnston Salary
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, Gomery, Gurion, Johnston, Hartland, Byzand, Mortram
Lamplighters £5 15s 6d Internal Lampmen
Scene Painters £5 5s Internal Greenwood, Painter
Singers £4 Internal Sedgwick
Actors £4 Internal Powell
Singers £4 9s 8d Internal J Welsh
Annuities £4 4s 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 £4 Internal Wewitzer
Actors £4 Internal Waldron & Harlowe
Food and Drink £4 4s External Mr. Capon for Mens Dinners 2 Sundays
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Ansell
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Mellon
Singers £3 6s 8d Internal Stevens
Actors £3 10s Internal Packer & last Week
Actors £3 Internal Sparks & Mrs
Security £3 Internal Constables
Cleaners £3 18s Internal Sweepers
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein, Salary
Mantuamaking £3 Departmental Mantua Women
Scene Painters £3 Internal Banks, do. [Painter]
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 13s 4d Internal Caulfield
Actors £2 Internal Decamp
Actors £2 Internal Sontley
Actors £2 6s 8d Internal Maddocks & Mrs
Performers (Other) £2 16s 8d Internal Rhodes, Fisher & Danby
Performers (Other) £2 13s 4d Internal Menage & Sister
Actors £2 Internal Cambell Mrs
Performers (Other) £2 4s 8d Internal Bannister & Haskey
Actors £2 Internal Cambell Miss
Treasurers £2 Internal Dunn
Hair, Beards and Wigs £2 6s 6d External Bond, for a Wig & Beard
Law £2 2s External Mortimer Possession
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.
Dancers £1 6s 8d Internal 2 Miss Bristoes
Performers (Other) £1 6s 8d Internal Kelly & Ragg
Performers (Other) £1 16s 8d Internal Butler & Cuyler
Actors £1 13s 4d Internal Tidswell
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 6s 8d Internal Thompson
Singers £1 13s 4d Internal Elliott & Cook
Performers (Other) £1 13s 4d Internal Evans & Webb
Singers £1 Internal Danby Sen
Employees (Other) £1 17s 4d Internal Stokes & Mills
Performers (Other) £1 6s 8d Internal Hicks & Sister
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Humphries
Music Copyists £1 3s 4d Internal Wyber & Son
Singers £1 Internal Arne
Singers £1 13s 4d Internal Sanders & Wentworth
Performers (Other) £1 6s 8d Internal Ferraris
Actors £1 Internal Chippendale
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Stuart
Actors £1 Internal Purser
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Surmont
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 Internal Graham, Assistant
Books, Paper and Stationery £1 7s 6d External Stationary
Dressers £1 10s Internal Smith & Sister
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Tuck, Tinman
Tinworkers £1 8s Departmental do. [Tuck] Man for assistance
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal West, Messenger
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Bill Stickers
House Servants (Other) £1 1s Internal Potts, Hallkeeper
Wardrobe (Other) £1 Internal Phillimore
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Gay Taylor Salary
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby, Messenger
Law £1 1s External Storey
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 1s Internal Stevens, Boxkeeper
Singers 13s 4d Internal Coates
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Wells Mrs
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Watson
Actors 13s 4d Internal Jones
Hair, Beards and Wigs 16s Internal Brady
Singers 13s 4d Internal Heather
Singers 13s 4d Internal Tirrell
Messengers and Porters 10s Internal Chatterley
Security 12s Internal Rigg
Messengers and Porters 2s Internal Ball for Messages
Food and Drink 10s External do. [Carpenters] for Beer Rehearsals &c
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Total £719 1s 4d