Saturday 26 March 1803

Plays

Performances
The Way to Keep Him, A House to be Sold
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£276 2s 6d
Available Revenue
37%
Capacity
45%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in The Way to Keep Him: Sir Bashful Constant, Mr Bannister, jun.; the Widow Belmour, Mrs Jordan
Mrs Jordan will introduce the much admired song of the Willow, accompanied by herself on the lute

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £276 2s 6d £199 16s 6d £71 13s £4 13s £0 Headcount for first account: Box (299), plus Free Box (445); Pit (539), plus Free Pit (53); F. Gall (125), plus Free F. Gall (26); and U. Gall. (66). Headcount for latter account: Box (394), plus Free Box (77); Pit (50), plus Free Pit (1); F. Gall (107); and U. Gall (88).
Box   £89 14s £59 2s
Pit   £94 6s 6d £5
First Gallery   £12 10s £5 7s
Upper Gallery   £3 6s £2 4s
Total £276 2s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £11 6s 8d Internal Do. [Mr. Bannister] Actor
Actors £16 13s 4d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Pope
Actors £10 Internal Mr. 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.
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Suett
Actors £7 6s 8d Internal Mr. C. Kemble
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Barrymore
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Palmer
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Dowton
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Wathen
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Cherry
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Mr. Dwyer
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Mr. Holland
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Caulfield
Actors £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Collins
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Packer
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £3 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors £2 6s 8d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Maddocks
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Fisher
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Waldron
Actors £7 6s 8d Internal Miss Pope
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Powell
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Younge
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Glover
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Ansell
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Mellon
Actors £4 Internal Mrs. Harlow
Actors £2 Internal Miss Campbell
Actors £1 13s 4d Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Scott
Actors £2 Internal Miss Hicks
Actors £47 5s Internal Mrs. Jordan
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Russell
Actors £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Hollingsworth
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Bartley
Actors £2 Internal Mrs. Henry
Actors £1 8s Internal Mr. Bannister
Actors £1 Internal Mr. Purser
Actors 16s 8d Internal Mr. Webb
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Actors 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Jones
Actors 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Fisher
Actors 13s 4d Internal Wm. Chatterley
Actors £1 Internal Miss Isabella Palmer
Cleaners 12s Internal Mr. Donnelly
Cleaners £5 Internal Sweepers
Dancers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Grimaldi
Dancers £2 Internal Miss B. Menage
Dancers £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Byrn
Dancers £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Male
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mrs. Haskey
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Miss Bristoe
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Grimaldi
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Miss Watson
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Wells
Dancers £4 16s 8d Internal Men Dancers
Dancers £5 16s 8d Internal Women Do. [Dancers]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Thompson
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 13s 4d Internal Mr. Graham
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 6s 8d Internal Graham two Extra days
Employees (Other) £22 14s Internal Dale for Servants Dale's list of payees sometimes included performers, hence its categorisation here as "Employees (Other)" rather than "House Servants (Other)".
House Servants (Other) £1 Internal Mr. Smith Likely to be either Mr Smith the officekeeper (p. 130) or Mr Smith the dresser (p. 131), described in BD vol. 14. However, there are issues with both: BD states that the officekeeper finished working at Drury Lane in 1800, and the dresser was only paid 9s. per week in 1801, whereas the recipient here worked in the 1802-03 season at £ 10s. per week. Perhaps the term "new engagement" used in the first payment to him (6 November 1802) suggests that it was the old officekeeper, who had left in 1800 but returned. Or perhaps neither identification is correct, and this was a different Smith.
House Servants (Other) 15s Internal Mr. Potts
House Servants (Other) £4 2s 6d Internal Potts Hallkeeper Saly. on Account
Housekeeping £1 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Fosbrook
Lamplighters £6 16s 6d Internal Lampmen
Performers (Other) £1 6s 8d Internal Miss Ferraris
Performers (Other) 16s 8d Internal Mr. Evans
Performers (Other) 6s 8d Internal Master Blanchard
Performers (Other) 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Blanchard
Performers (Other) 13s 4d Internal Miss Kelly
Performers (Other) 13s 4d Internal Miss Menage
Performers (Other) 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Parsons Her pay, and the employment of a singer named Mr Parsons at Drury Lane several years later, suggest that Mrs Parsons may have been a singer. She was certainly a performer, as listed amongst the female performers at the start of Drury Lane's 1802-03 account book.
Performers (Other) 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Wragg
Performers (Other) £4 4s Internal Read for allowance to Men in Pantom.
Prompters £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Powell
Prompters £2 Internal Mr. Stokes
Security 12s Internal Mr. Rigge
Security £1 16s Internal Watchmen
Security £3 Internal Constables
Security £3 10s Internal Soldiers
Security £6 Internal Harris & Sheen Watchmen Saly. Do. [on Account]
Singers £10 13s 4d Internal Mr. Kelly
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Sedgwick
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Dignum
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Welsh
Singers £4 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Crouch
Singers £8 Internal Mrs. Bland
Singers £8 Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £4 13s 4d Internal Miss Stephens
Singers £3 6s 8d Internal Miss Tyrer
Singers £1 Internal Mr. Danby
Singers £1 Internal Mr. Gibbons 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.
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Caulfield
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Elliott
Singers 13s 4d Internal Mr. Heather
Singers 13s 4d Internal Mr. Rhodes
Singers £1 Internal Miss Arne
Singers £1 Internal Miss C. Hicks
Singers £1 Internal Miss Wentworth
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mrs. Butler
Singers 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Coates
Singers 13s 4d Internal Miss Saunders
Singers 13s 4d Internal Miss Williams
Singers £7 10s Internal Chorus
Stage Managers £6 Internal Mr. Bannister Manager
Supernumeraries £15 2s Internal Supernumeraries
Treasurers £10 Internal R. Wilson Esq. Auditor
Treasurers £1 13s 4d Internal Mr. Dunn
Treasurers £8 13s 4d Internal Mr. Peake
Instrument Purchases and Repairs £18 2s 6d External Mr. Avery for repairing the Organ
Music Copyists £1 Internal Mr. Wyber
Music Copyists 6s 8d Internal Wyber Junr.
Musicians (Band) £41 2s Internal Band in the Orchestra
Musicians (Band) £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Shaw Leader of the Band
Musicians (Other) £19 17s 6d Internal Extra Band in the Orchestra
Musicians (Other) £1 5s Internal Wyber for Playing Cymbols
Musicians (Trumpets) £2 5s Internal Extra Trumpets by Thompson
Clothing Material (Wool) £20 4s 5d External Mr. Marchant Woollen draper entd. short /11d.
Laundry and Dyeing 7s 6d Internal Clearstarcher
Laundry and Dyeing £1 11s 6d Internal Booth Washing
Hair, Beards and Wigs 16s Internal Mrs. Brady
Dressers £1 Internal Miss L. Smith
Dressers 10s Internal Miss A. Smith
Dressers £6 18s Internal Dressers
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Mantuamaking £1 16s Departmental Mantua
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Mr. Gay Taylor
Tailoring £9 2s 7d Departmental Taylor's Bill
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £41 6s 2d Departmental Carpenters Do. [Bill]
Fireworks 18s External Hunt Fireworks in Don Juan
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £8 10s 6d Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Properties £6 2s 6d Departmental Stage Properties
Properties £24 11s 7d Departmental Mr. Caton for Stage Properties to 27. Jany.
Scene Painters £5 15s 6d Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 Internal Mr. Banks
Scene Painters' Supplies £19 16s 10d External Mr. Butler for Colours
Candles (Tallow) £4 19s External Rablus Tallow
Lighting (Other) £60 External Mr. Glossop Lightg.
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £20 4s External Lowndes Printer
Management £42 Internal Principal Board of Management
Books, Paper and Stationery £6 9s External Dale for Book Binding & Stamps
Books, Paper and Stationery 4s 6d External Constables Rect. Stamps
Books, Paper and Stationery £2 8s External Pens & Stationary
Books, Paper and Stationery 6d External Rect. Stamp Do. [Mr. Diomond Author]
Messengers and Porters 10s Internal R. Chatterley
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. West
Messengers and Porters 13s Internal West Messinger
Law £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Burgess
Law £45 Internal Mr. Wm. Troward on Acct. of Salary
Renters' Shares £21 External Blackmore Broker for C. Hull O Renter
Authorial Payments (Other) £27 10s External Mr. Cobb Author of House to be Sold
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Total £941 8s 7d