Saturday 28 September 1805

Plays

Performances
The School for Scandal, The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£322 14s
Available Revenue
100%
Capacity
53%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in The School for Scandal: Sir Peter Teazle, Mr Wroughton; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr Dowton; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr Palmer; Joseph Surface, Mr Barrymore; Charles Surface, Mr Elliston; Lady Teazle, Mrs Jordan; Maria, Miss Mellon; Mrs Candour, Miss Pope
Principal characters in The Anatomist: Crispin, Mr Bannister; Beatrice (1st time), Miss Mellon

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £322 14s £227 4s £93 19s 6d 3s £1 7s 6d Odd Money
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £5 Mr Barrymore
Sub Total £5
Total £327 14s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £9 11s Internal Mr. Bannister
Actors £9 10s Internal Mr. Elliston
Actors £7 10s Internal Mr. Johnstone
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Dowton
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Barrymore
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Collins
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Palmer
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Cherry
Actors £8 Internal Mr. H. Siddons & Wife
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Russell
Actors £3 10s Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £3 10s Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Actors £4 10s Internal Mr. & Mrs. Mathews
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Holland
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £2 10s Internal Mr. Bartley
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Fisher & Mrs.
Actors £1 15s Internal Mr. Maddocks & Mrs.
Actors £1 Internal Mr. Purser
Actors £2 10s Internal Mr. Fisher and daughter
Actors £3 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors 12s 6d Internal Mr. Webb
Actors 10s Internal Mast. Tokeley
Actors £7 10s Internal Mrs. Powell
Actors £6 Internal Miss Duncan
Actors £5 10s Internal Miss Pope
Actors £3 10s Internal Mrs. Ansell
Actors £3 Internal Miss Mellon
Actors £3 Internal Mrs. B. Johnstone
Actors £1 10s Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £1 10s Internal Mrs. Scott
Actors £1 10s Internal Miss Boyce
Actors 15s Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Actors 10s Internal Mrs. Jones
Actors 12s 6d Internal Miss Benson
Actors £3 10s Internal Mr. & Mrs. Dormer
Actors £31 10s Internal Mrs. Jordan 2 Nights
Actors 10s Internal Palmer R. first week rais'd
Cleaners £3 15s Internal Sweepers
Cleaners 12s Internal Donnelly
Cleaners £9 Internal Sweepers cleaning the Theatre
Dancers £3 Internal Mr. Grimaldi
Dancers £1 Internal Mr. Mayle
Dancers £2 10s Internal Mrs. Sharp
Dancers 15s Internal Mrs. Grimaldi
Dancers 10s Internal Mrs. Wells
Dancers £9 10s Internal Madsle. Parisot
Dancers 15s Internal Miss Watson
Dancers 15s Internal Miss Bristoe
Dancers 15s Internal Miss C. Bristoe
Dancers 12s 6d Internal Miss Minton
Dancers 12s 6d Internal Mrs. Barrett
Dancers 12s 6d Internal Miss Taylor
Dancers 12s 6d Internal Miss Daniels
Dancers 12s 6d Internal Mrs. Brooker
Dancers 15s Internal Mr. Goodman
Dancers 15s Internal Mr. Hartland
Dancers 12s 6d Internal Mr. Wells
Dancers 12s 6d Internal Mr. Austin
Dancers 12s 6d Internal Mr. Johnstone
Dancers 12s 6d Internal Mr. Hope
Dancers 12s 6d Internal Mr. Vials
Dancers 12s 6d Internal Mr. Broadhurst
Dancers £1 Internal Grimaldi rais'd Saly. first week
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 Internal Mr. Thompson
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 6s Internal Checkgivers
House Servants (Other) £7 10s Internal Mr. Graham principal Manager Graham was neither an actor nor a proprietor, hence it is inappropriate to categorise this payment as either "Stage Managers" (which denotes those persons, typically performers, who managed the day-to-day business of the stage) or "Management" (which denotes proprietors" payments for managing).
House Servants (Other) £17 15s 6d Internal Servant's List
House Servants (Other) 15s Internal Potts
Housekeeping £1 Internal Mrs. Burke
Lamplighters £6 16s 6d Internal Lampmen
Lamplighters £6 16s 6d Internal Lampmen Week before opening
Performers (Other) 12s 6d Internal Mr. Evans
Performers (Other) £7 10s Internal Miss Decamp Maria Theresa De Camp, who acted, sung and danced.
Performers (Other) £2 Internal Miss Holloway
Performers (Other) 12s 6d Internal Miss Kelly
Performers (Other) 10s Internal Miss Menage
Performers (Other) 10s Internal Miss Decamp
Prompters £1 15s Internal Mr. Stokes
Prompters £5 Internal Mr. Powell Prompr.
Security £2 5s Internal Constables
Security £2 12s 6d Internal Soldiers
Security £1 16s Internal 3. Watchmen
Security 14s Internal Rigge day Watch
Singers £15 Internal Mr. Braham
Singers £8 Internal Mr. Kelly
Singers £2 Internal Mr. Dignum
Singers £2 Internal Mr. Welsh
Singers £2 Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £1 10s Internal Mr. Gibbons
Singers 10s Internal Mr. Bond
Singers 15s Internal Mr. Danby
Singers 12s 6d Internal Mr. Caulfield
Singers 12s 6d Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers 12s 6d Internal Mr. Rhodes
Singers 12s 6d Internal Mr. Fitzsimmons
Singers £21 Internal Madme. Storace
Singers £6 6s Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £6 6s Internal Mrs. Bland
Singers 15s Internal Mrs. Gardiner
Singers 12s 6d Internal Mrs. Butler
Singers 10s Internal Miss Saunders
Singers 12s 6d Internal Miss Howells BD vol. 8, pp. 6-8, records two female singers named Howells active at this time. Neither of them matches up to the Miss Howells appearing in the 1805-06 Drury Lane account book at a £1 5s weekly salary: the first, "Miss Howells", flourished only 1798-1800; the second, Fanny Howells, did not perform at Drury Lane until 1816. However, BD expresses no knowledge of "Miss Howells's" post-1800 career. Moreover, a £1 5s weekly salary would be appropriate for a singer. It therefore seems fair to categorise the relevant payments as "Singers" and to suggest that the recipient may well have been Bd's 1798-1800 "Miss Howells".
Singers 12s 6d Internal Mr. Elliott
Singers 10s Internal Mrs. Coates
Singers 10s Internal Miss Selwin
Singers £2 10s Internal Chorus
Singers 12s 6d Internal Elliott Chorus
Stage Managers £12 12s Internal Mr. Wroughton Stage Manager & Actor
Supernumeraries £10 3s Internal Supernumeraries
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr. Dunn
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Mr. Peake Junr.
Treasurers £12 Internal Mr. Peake
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Wyber
Musicians (Band) £31 11s 6d Internal The Band in the Orchestra
Musicians (Band) £5 Internal Mr. Shaw
Musicians (Trumpets) £3 Internal Extra Trumpets
Clothing Purchase (Footwear) £3 12s External Scenemen's Shoes & Stockings
Hair, Beards and Wigs 12s Internal Mr. Brady
Dressers £5 12s 6d Internal Dressers
Dressers £2 Internal Smith & Sister
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Mantuamaking £14 15s Departmental Mantuamakers
Tailoring £2 Internal Banks Taylor
Tailoring £9 10s 8d Departmental Taylor's
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Willson & Wife
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £30 4s 6d Departmental Carpenters
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £11 2s 4d Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Scene Painters £5 15s 6d Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 Internal Mr. Banks
Scene Painters £2 2s Internal Smith Painter
Scene Painters £30 Internal Mr. Greenwood Summer Salary
Candles (Tallow) £10 2s 7d External Tallow
Lighting (Other) £39 15s External Lighting Oil & Wax
Upkeep and Refurbishments (Other) 13s External a Load of Sand Bracketed together with another entry as "Petty incidents".
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £21 13s 6d External Printer
Management £31 10s Internal Principal Board of Management
Messengers and Porters 12s 6d Internal Mr. R. Chatterley
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal West
Messengers and Porters 6s Internal Appleby Messinger Bracketed together with another entry as "Petty incidents".
Annuities £3 3s External Mr. Lacey BD vol. 9, pp. 108-9, states that Willoughby Lacy sold his share of Drury Lane in 1778 for a lump sum and life annuities for his wife and Robert Langford; and that, from 1804-05 through 1808-09 Lacey was paid £6 6s. per week as part of "an agreement that .
Law £9 Internal Mr. Burgess
Law £8 8s External Wright Replevns
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Tuck Tinman
Total £703 19s 7d