Saturday 27 March 1802

Plays

Performances
The Duenna; or, The Double Elopement, The Liar
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£257 3s 6d
Available Revenue
45%
Capacity
42%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in The Duenna: Carlos, Mrs Mountain; Isaac Mendoza, Mr Dowton; Ciara, Mrs Billington; Lucy, Miss De Camp; Margaret (the Duenna), Miss Pope

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £257 3s 6d £202 15s 6d £53 3s £1 5s £0
Total £257 3s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £60 Internal Siddons
Lighting (Other) £60 External Glossop Lighting
Musicians (Band) £41 2s Internal Band in the Orchestra
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £37 6s Departmental Carpenters Day Money
Actors £31 10s Internal Mr. Kemble
Employees (Other) £26 4s Internal Dale for Servants Dale's list of payees sometimes included performers, hence its categorisation here as "Employees (Other)" rather than "House Servants (Other)".
Newspaper Advertisements £25 External Mr. Walter, Times
Tailoring £23 9s Departmental do. [Gay] Bill
Management £21 Internal Mr. Sheridan Board of Management
Printing £20 12s External Lowndes Printer
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.
Musicians (Band) £10 13s 4d Internal Shaw 2 Weeks
Management £10 10s Internal Mr. Richardson, do. [Board of Management]
Coal £10 External Michell, Coal Merchant
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 Mr. Peake
Production Design (Other) £8 16s Departmental Johnston's Workpeople
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, Riches, Vining, Millett, Willis
Dressers £6 18s Internal Dressers
Management £6 Internal Mr. Grubb, do. [Board of Management]
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal do. [Johnston's] Salary
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Dowton
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Wathen
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Raymond
Lamplighters £5 15s 6d Internal do. [Glossop] Lampmen 13th. March
Scene Painters £5 5s Internal Greenwood, Painter
Performers (Other) £5 Internal Miss Hicks on Acct.
Lamplighters £5 15s 6d Internal Lampmen
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £5 Departmental Jacobs, carpenters by Order of Mr. Sheridan
Singers £4 9s 8d Internal J Welsh
Singers £4 Internal Sedgwick
Actors £4 Internal Powell
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.
Dancers £4 16s 8d Internal Men Dancers Whitmell, Wells, Johnston, Gurion, Gomery, Hartland, Bayzand
Actors £4 Internal Wewitzer
Actors £4 Internal Harlowe & Waldron
Mantuamaking £4 4s Departmental Mantua Women
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Ansell
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Mellon
Singers £3 6s 8d Internal Stevens
Actors £3 Internal Sparks & Mrs
Security £3 Internal Constables
Cleaners £3 18s Internal Sweepers
Scene Painters £3 Internal Banks do. [Painter]
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein, Salary
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Dignum
Prompters £2 13s 4d Internal Powell, Prompter
Actors £2 13s 4d Internal Holland
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Cooke
Dancers £2 13s 4d Internal Grimaldi
Actors £2 13s 4d Internal Caulfield
Actors £2 Internal Sontley
Actors £2 Internal Cambell Mrs
Actors £2 Internal Cambell Miss
Performers (Other) £2 13s 4d Internal Menage & Sister
Actors £2 Internal Decamp
Performers (Other) £2 16s 8d Internal Danby, Rhodes & Fisher
Actors £2 6s 8d Internal Maddocks & Mrs
Actors £2 Internal Packer
Performers (Other) £2 4s 8d Internal Bannister & Haskey
Treasurers £2 Internal Dunn
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
Singers £1 13s 4d Internal Cook & Elliott
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 6s 8d Internal Thompson
Performers (Other) £1 13s 4d Internal Evans & Webb
Singers £1 Internal Danby
Performers (Other) £1 6s 8d Internal Kelly & Ragg
Performers (Other) £1 16s 8d Internal Butler & Cuyler
Actors £1 13s 4d Internal Tidswell
Performers (Other) £1 6s 8d Internal Hicks & Sister
Music Copyists £1 3s 4d Internal Wyber & Son
Singers £1 Internal Arne
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Surmont
Performers (Other) £1 6s 8d Internal Ferraris
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Stuart
Actors £1 Internal Purser
Singers £1 Internal Wentworth
Prompters £1 4s Internal Stokes
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Humphries
Actors £1 Internal Chippendale
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 Internal Graham, Assistant
Dressers £1 10s Internal Smith & Sister
Newspaper Advertisements £1 6s External Advertisements of Oratorios twice in Times & Chronicle
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby, Messenger, Salary
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal West do. [Messenger,] do. [Salary]
House Servants (Other) £1 1s Internal Potts on Acct.
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Tuck, Tinman
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Bill Stickers
Wardrobe (Other) £1 Internal Phillimore
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Gay Taylor Salary
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Watson
Actors 13s 4d Internal Jones
Hair, Beards and Wigs 16s Internal Brady
Singers 13s 4d Internal Coates
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Wells Mrs
Singers 13s 4d Internal Heather
Singers 13s 4d Internal Tirrell
Singers 13s 4d Internal Sanders
Messengers and Porters 10s Internal Chatterley
Singers 13s 4d Internal Mills
Security 12s Internal Rigg
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Total £777 8d