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 %
26 Sep 1750 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Devil to Pay, Grand Scots Ballet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Nov 1750 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Anatomist, Country Amusements, Pigmalion No No No £100 N/A N/A
29 Dec 1750 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Queen Mab No No No £160 N/A N/A
14 Jan 1751 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Queen Mab No No No £140 N/A N/A
04 May 1751 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Chaplet, Comic Dance, Hornpipe, La Minuet a Quatre No No Yes £180 N/A N/A
10 Dec 1751 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Lottery No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Apr 1752 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Jan 1753 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Genii No No No £200 N/A N/A
05 Jan 1753 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Genii Yes No No £160 N/A N/A
17 May 1753 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Lethe, Comic Dance, Hornpipe, Minuet No No Yes £220 N/A N/A
22 Sep 1753 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Shepherds Lottery No No No £80 100% N/A
29 Dec 1753 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Fortunatus Yes No No £160 N/A N/A
07 May 1754 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Grumbler, The School of Anacreon, Country Amusements, Hornpipe, The Drunken Peasant No No Yes £130 N/A N/A
02 Jul 1754 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Humourists Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 Oct 1754 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Li Pescatori Italiana or The Italian Fishermen (new pantomime dance), Il Maestro di Cappella or The Music Master No No No £100 N/A N/A
28 Jan 1755 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Proteus No No No £120 N/A N/A
18 Sep 1756 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Apprentice No No No £160 100% N/A
28 Dec 1756 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Mercury Harlequin No No No £190 N/A N/A
18 May 1757 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Toyshop, Hornpipe, The Louvre No No Yes £200 N/A N/A
29 Oct 1757 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Harlequin Ranger No No No £160 69% N/A
28 Dec 1757 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Harlequin Ranger, The Prussian Camp No No No £140 60% N/A
02 Dec 1758 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Anatomist, The Swiss No No No £204 10s 6d 60% N/A
04 Dec 1758 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Chaplet, Spanish Dance No No No £188 6s 6d 75% N/A
06 Dec 1758 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Lottery, The German Hunters No No No £199 11s 6d 71% N/A
07 Dec 1758 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Oracle No No No £169 18s 6d 65% N/A
09 Dec 1758 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Chaplet, The Swiss No No No £185 2s 64% N/A
12 Dec 1758 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Virgin Unmasked, Spanish Dance No No No £186 9s 6d 62% N/A
16 Dec 1758 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Queen Mab No No No £195 17s 6d 68% N/A
22 Dec 1758 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Queen Mab Yes No No £153 N/A N/A
29 Dec 1758 Drury Lane The Busy Body, A Duke and no Duke, The Prussian Camp No No No £147 6s 60% N/A
15 Jan 1759 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Lottery, The Prussian Camp Yes No No £193 2s 67% N/A
02 Feb 1759 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Oracle Yes No No £174 14s 6d N/A N/A
01 Mar 1759 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Oracle, The Prussian Camp Yes No No £189 1s 42% N/A
22 Mar 1759 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Double Disappointment, A Dish of All Sorts, The Threshers Yes No Yes £368 16s 6d 52% N/A
29 Mar 1759 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Lying Valet, The Goldfinch, Bacchanalian Song No No Yes £280 N/A N/A
31 Mar 1759 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £243 1s 57% N/A
02 May 1759 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Florizel and Perdita, Drunken Peasants, The Milkmaid's Holiday (The Humous of May-day) No No Yes £104 13s N/A N/A
04 May 1759 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Queen Mab, The Prussian Camp No No Yes £147 N/A N/A
03 Oct 1759 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Lethe No No No £70 2s 100% N/A
13 Dec 1759 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Fair No No No £173 5s 66% N/A
06 Feb 1760 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Fair No No No £156 19s N/A N/A
24 Mar 1760 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Marriage a la Mode No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 Oct 1760 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Englishman Returned from Paris, The Pedlar Tricked No No No £82 11s 6d N/A N/A
16 Jan 1761 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Thomas and Sally Yes No No £188 4s N/A N/A
22 Apr 1761 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Double Disappointment, La Petite Bergere, Minuet, Serious Dance, The Louvre Yes No Yes £176 4s N/A N/A
02 Oct 1761 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Rape of Proserpine No No No £88 12s N/A N/A
11 Jan 1762 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Genii No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Jan 1762 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Genii, Hearts of Oak No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Apr 1762 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Contrivances, Hornpipe, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 May 1762 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Polly Honeycombe With Alterations, The May Day Frolic, New Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 May 1762 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Englishman in Paris, Hearts of Oak, Baltazar No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
05 Oct 1762 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Contrivances No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Oct 1762 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Old Maid, The Swedish Gardeners No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Oct 1762 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Intriguing Chambermaid, The Swedish Gardeners Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Oct 1762 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Intriguing Chambermaid, The Swedish Gardeners Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Oct 1762 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Thomas and Sally, The Pedlar Tricked Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Nov 1762 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Miss in Her Teens, The Jealous Woodcutter No No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Nov 1762 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Miss in Her Teens, The Sicilian Peasants Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Jan 1763 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Fortunatus, The Irish Lilt No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Jan 1763 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Citizen, The Dutch Skippers Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
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
08 Dec 1763 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Citizen, Concerto on hautboy, Sailors Dance, Hornpipe No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Jan 1764 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Thomas and Sally, Venus Revenged, The Calabrian Peasants No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Feb 1764 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Citizen, The Knife Grinders, Venus Revenged Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Mar 1764 Covent Garden The Busy Body, False Concord, New Grand Ballet, Hymens Triumph (Grand dance) No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
12 Apr 1764 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Love a la Mode, Hornpipe, Venus Revenged Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 May 1764 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Thomas and Sally, The Happy Bride, The Judgment of Paris, The Kind Appointment, Vain is Beauty's Gaudy Flower No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 Sep 1764 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Oct 1764 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Citizen, The Sicilian Peasants, La Femme Maitresse, Les Mattelots Provencals, New Grand Comic Ballet No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Nov 1764 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Thomas and Sally, Blind Mans Buff, La Femme Maitresse No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Dec 1764 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Feb 1765 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Harlequin Sorcerer Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Mar 1765 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Thomas and Sally, The Jealous Woodcutter Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Apr 1765 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Upholsterer, Rural Love, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 May 1765 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Deuce Is in Him, Hornpipe, New Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
05 Oct 1765 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Upholsterer, The Garland No No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Nov 1765 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Chaplet, The Calabrian Peasants, Rural Love No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Jan 1766 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Feb 1766 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Midas No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Apr 1766 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Midas, Rural Love No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Apr 1766 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Thomas and Sally, Minuet, Rural Love No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 May 1766 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Miss in Her Teens, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 Sep 1766 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Devil to Pay, The Venetian Travellers No No No £82 1s 6d 100% N/A
28 Oct 1766 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Royal Chace No No No £125 16s 60% N/A
22 Nov 1766 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Harlequin Dr Faustus Yes No No £193 19s 48% N/A
19 Dec 1766 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £194 1s 6d 43% N/A
08 Jan 1767 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £147 13s 6d 39% N/A
13 Feb 1767 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £190 15s 6d 54% N/A
04 Apr 1767 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Midas, The Female Archer No No Yes £215 10s 6d 48% N/A
28 Apr 1767 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Midas, The Female Archer, The Wapping Landlady No No Yes £239 7s N/A N/A
07 May 1767 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Thomas and Sally, Rural Love, The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe No No Yes £181 19s 24% N/A
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