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 %
09 Dec 1740 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Devil to Pay, Les Jardiniers Suedois, Le Boufon Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Dec 1740 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No £102 5s N/A N/A
03 Feb 1741 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Le Boufon, The Enchanted Garden, Grand Serious Ballet, La Tambourine, Les Jardiniers Suedois No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Apr 1741 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Les Masons, The Peasants' Triumph No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1741 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Tanner of York, Wooden Shoe Dance, Roast Beef Song, Comic Dance, Pierots Yes No Yes £100 N/A N/A
30 Sep 1741 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Dragon of Wantley Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Nov 1741 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Dec 1741 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Harlequin Shipwrecked, Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamund, Dutch Dance, The Early Horn, The Swiss No No No £60 N/A N/A
18 Dec 1741 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Early Horn, Les Matelotes, Les Masons, Les Sabotiers No No No £70 N/A N/A
30 Dec 1741 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Royal Chace, The Peasants, Chacone, Tambourine No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Jan 1742 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Early Horn, La Foullies, Les Satires Puny No No No £60 N/A N/A
10 Feb 1742 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond, La Foullies, Les Satires Puny No Yes No £90 N/A N/A
16 Feb 1742 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The School Boy, Peasants, Chacone, La Provencal No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1742 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Honest Yorkshireman, Comic Dance, The Cries of London, Pantaloon and Enamorata No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Nov 1742 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Miss Lucy in Town, Grand Comic Dance, Harlequin Dance No No No £41 1s 6d N/A N/A
18 Jan 1743 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Neopolitan Punch, Italian Gardeners No No No £22 13s 6d N/A N/A
20 Sep 1743 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Lying Valet No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Oct 1743 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The School Boy, Serious Ballet, New Scotch Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Apr 1744 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Necromancer No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
29 Sep 1744 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Nov 1744 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Lottery, Le Gondalier, Scotch Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Dec 1744 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Robin Goodfellow No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Feb 1745 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 May 1745 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Schoolboy, Le Gondalier, Scotch Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Oct 1745 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Grand Comic Dance No No No £59 13s 6d 100% N/A
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