Sir Courtly Nice; or, It Cannot Be (1685)

Author
John Crowne
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Comedy
Performance Medium
Spoken Drama
Associated work receipts The physical apparatus employed on and around the stage to support, enhance and sometimes substitute the performers' enactment of drama.
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
£1,230 7s 9d £524 14s 3d (42.6%) £705 13s 6d (57.4%)
1732 - 1809
£1,230 7s 9d - (100%) £524 14s 3d (42.6%) £705 13s 6d (57.4%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
34 20 14
1732 - 1809
34 20 14
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
12 Sep 1732 Drury Lane Sir Courtly Nice, The Mock Doctor No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Dec 1732 Drury Lane Sir Courtly Nice, Betty Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Jan 1735 Drury Lane Sir Courtly Nice, An Old Man Taught Wisdom, The Russian Sailor No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Jan 1735 Drury Lane Sir Courtly Nice, An Old Man Taught Wisdom Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Dec 1735 Drury Lane Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, Le Badinage de Provence, French Peasants Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Jan 1736 Drury Lane Sir Courtly Nice, Venetian Gondolier and Courtezan, Le Badinage Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Apr 1744 Drury Lane Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosed No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 Jan 1746 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, Duke and No Duke, The Flocks Shall Leave The Mountains, Les Allemandes No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Jan 1746 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Duke and No Duke, The Flocks Shall Leave The Mountains, Les Allemandes No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Jan 1746 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Duke and no Duke, The Flocks Shall Leave The Mountains No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Jan 1746 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
31 Jan 1746 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Orpheus and Eurydice, The Flocks Shall Leave The Mountains No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Feb 1746 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Orpheus and Eurydice, The Flocks Shall Leave The Mountains No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Feb 1746 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Pyramus and Thisbe, The Flocks Shall Leave The Mountains, Over the Hills and Far Away No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Feb 1746 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Phebe, Grand Comic Ballet, The Flocks Shall Leave The Mountains, The Drunken Tyrolese Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Apr 1746 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Duke and no Duke, The Flocks Shall Leave The Mountains, Peasant, Comic Ballet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 Apr 1746 Drury Lane Sir Courtly Nice, The Double Disappointment, Italian Peasants Yes No Yes £30 6s 6d N/A N/A
13 May 1746 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Sep 1746 Drury Lane Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, The Devil to Pay No No No £60 100% N/A
24 Nov 1746 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £91 19s 6d 51% N/A
23 Jan 1747 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Miss in Her Teens No No No £144 7s 6d 59% N/A
04 May 1747 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Phebe, Liberty Alone, Peasant Dance, Come Smiling Liberty, The English Boy, English Girl No No Yes £137 18s 6d N/A N/A
10 Apr 1749 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, Flora, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 Oct 1751 Drury Lane Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, The Chaplet, L'Entree de Flore, Peasant Dance No No No £80 N/A N/A
18 Oct 1751 Drury Lane Sir Courtly Nice, Queen Mab, Comic Dance, Hornpipe No No No £120 N/A N/A
06 Nov 1753 Drury Lane Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, The Chaplet No No No £120 N/A N/A
14 Dec 1753 Drury Lane Sir Courtly Nice, The Englishman in Paris Yes No No £180 N/A N/A
24 Nov 1758 Drury Lane Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, The Englishman in Paris, Spanish Dance No No No £115 7s 66% N/A
24 Apr 1760 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, Flora or Hob in the Well, Comic Dance, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £193 13s N/A N/A
15 May 1760 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Flora, Comic Dance, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £226 6s 9d N/A N/A
27 Mar 1764 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, The What Dye Call It, Hornpipe, The Cries of London, New Grand Ballet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Apr 1764 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, The Upholsterer, Hornpipe, The Cries of London, The Drunken Peasant, The Knife Grinders No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 Apr 1770 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be, Flora or Hob in the Well, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £241 14s 6d N/A N/A
28 Apr 1781 Covent Garden Seventeen Hundred And Eighty One Or The Cartel At Philadelphia, Sir Courtly Nice or It Cannot Be, Who'd have Thought It No No Yes £222 6s 6d 52% N/A

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