The Busy Body (1709)

Author
Susanna Centlivre
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
£35,633 3s £22,491 5s 6d (63.1%) £13,141 17s 6d (36.9%)
1732 - 1809
£35,633 3s - (100%) £22,491 5s 6d (63.1%) £13,141 17s 6d (36.9%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
317 201 116
1732 - 1809
317 201 116
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
15 Feb 1763 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Rape of Proserpine Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Mar 1763 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Citizen, The Humours of the Age, The Jealous Woodcutter No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 Apr 1763 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Apprentice, The Catalonian Marriage Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Apr 1763 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Harlequin Statue or The Jealous Farmer Outwitted, The Drunken Peasant, New Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 May 1763 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Musical Lady, Double Hornpipe, The Irish Lilt No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 May 1763 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Dragon of Wantly, Hornpipe, The French Gardeners No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Sep 1763 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Sep 1763 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Fortunatus No No No £170 14s 6d 100% N/A
29 Oct 1763 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Thomas and Sally, The Sicilian Peasants No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Nov 1763 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Deuce Is in Him, The Cuckoo No No No £200 2s N/A N/A
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