Saturday 19 April 1806

Plays

Performances
Barbarossa, The Forty Thieves
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£464 16s 6d
Available Revenue
70%
Capacity
76%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in Barbarossa: Achmet, the Young Roscius; Zaphira, Mrs Powell

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £464 16s 6d £376 7s 6d £70 5s £4 10s £13 14s Odd Money
Total £464 16s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Benefit Payments £268 6s 6d Internal Madme. Storace Clear Benft. Money
Actors £105 Internal Mast. Betty two Nights
Lighting (Other) £79 10s External Lighting by Mr. Glossop
Mantuamaking £72 4s 4d Departmental Mantua's Do [Bill]
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Management
Musicians (Band) £63 3s Internal The Band
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £54 1s 11d Departmental Carpenters
Composers £52 10s External Kelly M. for Music of Forty Thieves
Clothing Material (Wool) £50 External Mr. Marchant Clothier Do [on Account]
Canvas £50 External Mr. Fowlks for Canvas
Clothing Purchase (Legwear) £50 External Mr. Partridge Hosier on Account
Coal £50 External Mr. Jones for Coals on Account
Actors £47 5s Internal Mrs. Jordan
Singers £42 Internal Madme. Storace
House Servants (Other) £35 17s Internal Servants List
Supernumeraries £35 8s 6d Internal Supernums.
Musicians (Other) £34 7s Internal D. of Cambridge's Band
Singers £30 Internal Mr. Braham
Metals £30 External Jackson Smith on Account
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr Wroughton Manager & Actor
Printing £22 2s External Printer
Actors £19 2s Internal Mr. Bannister
Actors £19 Internal Mr. Elliston
Dancers £19 Internal Madsle. Parisot
Singers £16 Internal Mr. Kelly
Actors £16 Internal Mr. & Mrs. H. Siddons
Actors £15 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Performers (Other) £15 Internal Miss Decamp Maria Theresa De Camp, who acted, sung and danced.
Actors £15 Internal Mrs. Powell
Candles (Tallow) £15 11s 8d External Tallow Chandler
Singers £15 Internal Chorus
Clothing Material (Leather) £15 12s External Footman for Gilt Leather
Tailoring £14 17s 3d Departmental Taylor's Bill
Dancers £13 15s Internal Degville's Pupils
Music Copyists £13 17s 6d Internal Wyber Music Copyg
Actors £12 Internal Mr. Dowton
Singers £12 12s Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £12 12s Internal Mrs. Bland
Actors £12 Internal Miss Duncan
Dancers £12 Internal Mr. Degville
Treasurers £12 Internal Mr. Peake
Production Design (Other) £12 19s 6d Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Scene Painters £12 Internal Williams for Greenwood
Actors £11 Internal Miss Pope
Dressers £11 14s Internal Dressers
Actors £10 Internal Mr Barrymore
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Collins
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Palmer
Actors £10 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Mathews
Musicians (Band) £10 Internal Mr. Shaw
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Law £9 Internal Mr. Burgess
Animals £9 11s 8d External Mr. Hodgkinson for Horse keep
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Cherry
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Russell
Lamplighters £8 8s Internal Lampmen
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Actors £7 Internal Mrs. Ansell
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Dormer & Wife
Cleaners £7 10s Internal Sweepers
Leases (Ground and Buildings) £7 External Paul for Rent to Lady day
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Holland
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £6 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors £6 Internal Miss Mellon
Actors £6 Internal Mrs. Johnstone
Annuities £6 6s External Mr. Lacey 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.
Scene Painters £6 6s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Bartley
Dancers £5 Internal Mrs. Sharp
Singers £5 Internal Mr. Miller
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Prompters £5 Internal Mr. Powell Prompter
Clothing Material (Lace) £5 17s External Davies Laceman
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Dignum
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Welsh
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Cooke
Actors £4 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Fisher
Performers (Other) £4 Internal Miss Holloway
Dancers £4 10s Internal Mr. Jubert
Dancers £4 Internal Mr. G. Degville
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Musicians (Trumpets) £4 10s Internal Trumpets
Prompters £3 10s Internal Mr. Stokes
Singers £3 Internal Mr. Gibbons
Actors £3 10s Internal Mr. & Mrs. Maddocks
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Purser
Actors £3 Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £3 Internal Miss Boyce
Actors £3 Internal Mrs. Scott
Dancers £3 Internal Two Miss Bristoes
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Banks
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr. Dunn
House Servants (Other) £3 3s Internal Watchmen Potts & Donnelly
Books, Paper and Stationery £3 14s External Winchester for Books
Musicians (Harps) £3 3s Internal Weippert Harp
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 Internal Mr. Thompson
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Mayle
Housekeeping £2 Internal Mrs. Burke
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Packer
Dressers £2 Internal Miss Smith & Sister
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Wilson & Wife
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr. Banks Taylor
Hair, Beards and Wigs £2 19s 6d External Bond for Wigs
Musicians (Other) £2 5s Internal Tamplin Bugle Horn
Messengers and Porters £1 5s Internal Mr. R. Chatterley
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 4s Internal Mr. Brady
Singers £1 10s Internal Mr. Danby
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Caulfield
Actors £1 5s Internal Mr. Webb
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Mr. Evans
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Elliott
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Rhodes
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Fitzsimmons
Singers £1 Internal Mast. Bond
Actors £1 Internal Mast. Tokeley
Actors £1 10s Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Singers £1 10s Internal Mrs. Gardiner
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Miss Kelly
Singers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Butler
Singers £1 Internal Miss Saunders
Dancers £1 Internal Mrs. Wells
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Jones
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Menage
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Decamp
Singers £1 Internal Miss Selwin
Singers £1 Internal Mrs. Coates
Dancers £1 10s Internal Miss Watson
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Minton
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Barrett
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Taylor
Actors £1 5s Internal Miss Benson
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Daniels
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Brooker
Singers £1 5s 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".
Dancers £1 10s Internal Mr Goodman
Dancers £1 10s Internal Mr. Bezand
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Wells
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Austin
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Hope
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Johnstone
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Vials
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr Broadhurst
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Mr. R Peake
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. West
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Mr. Wyber
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Dressers £1 18s Internal Women Dressing Camels The "Camels" seem to have been men costumed as camels, rather than real ones.
Cleaners £1 13s Internal Sweepers Extra
Singers £1 5s Internal Extra Chorus Miss Kelly
Security 14s Internal Rigge day Watch
Upholstery 17s External Johnston for Horsehair
Laundry and Dyeing 13s Departmental Blacking Shoes
Messengers and Porters 12s 6d Internal West Messages
Total £1,998 18s 4d