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31 May 1728

Event Information
Theatre: Lincoln's Inn Fields
Theatrical Season: 1727-1728
Volume: 2
Comments: The Fifty-Sixth Night. Tickets for A Bold Stroke for a Wife taken. Receipts: #87 8s. Probable attendance: boxes, 120 Paid and 11 orders; stage, 7 paid; pit, 211 paid and 15 orders; slips, 17 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 163 paid and 25 orders; second gallery, 9 paid and 2 orders. [Rich's Register also lists #10 18s. in tickets for Mrs Chianova.

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  • Original Data

    Source: London Stage Information Bank

    *phlif The Beggar's Opera. See 29 Jan. *chlif The Fifty-Sixth Night. Tickets for <i>A Bold Stroke for a Wife</i> taken. Receipts: #87 8s. Probable attendance: boxes, 120 Paid and 11 orders; stage, 7 paid; pit, 211 paid and 15 orders; slips, 17 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 163 paid and 25 orders; second gallery, 9 paid and 2 orders. [<i>Rich's Register</i> also lists #10 18s. in tickets for $Mrs Chianova=.]

  • Cleaned Data

    *p1728 05 31 lif The Beggar's Opera. ^See17280129^.*c1728 05 31 lif The Fifty-Sixth Night. Tickets for <i>A Bold Stroke for a Wife</i> taken. Receipts: #87 8s. Probable attendance: boxes, 120 Paid and 11 orders; stage, 7 paid; pit, 211 paid and 15 orders; slips, 17 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 163 paid and 25 orders; second gallery, 9 paid and 2 orders. [<i>Rich's Register</i> also lists #10 18s. in tickets for $Mrs Chianova=.]

  • Parsed Data

    Event: 12256 | 17280531 | lif | The Fifty-Sixth Night. Tickets for <i>A Bold Stroke for a Wife</i> taken. Receipts: #87 8s. Probable attendance: boxes, 120 Paid and 11 orders; stage, 7 paid; pit, 211 paid and 15 orders; slips, 17 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 163 paid and 25 orders; second gallery, 9 paid and 2 orders. [<i>Rich's Register</i> also lists #10 18s. in tickets for $Mrs Chianova=.
    Performance: 20682 | 12256 | p | The Beggar's Opera | See17280129.

Mainpiece

Title: The Beggar's Opera
Comments:
See17280129.
Cast:
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Related Works

Publish Date: 1728
Author: J.C. Pepusch
Author: John Gay
Birth: 1685
Death: 1732

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