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 %
13 Nov 1745 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Jan 1746 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Duke and No Duke No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Mar 1746 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Harlequin Incendiary No No No £56 17s N/A N/A
04 Aug 1746 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Conspiracy Discover'd No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Oct 1746 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Lying Valet No No No £49 8s 100% N/A
21 Jan 1747 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Miss in Her Teens, Turkish Pirate, Laundress's Visiting Day No No No £154 8s 6d 77% N/A
11 Nov 1747 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Foote's Tea No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Dec 1747 Covent Garden Busy Body, Tea No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Feb 1748 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Tea, Foote's Vagaries No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Mar 1748 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Apollo and Daphne No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Sep 1748 Drury Lane The Busie Body, The Lottery No No No £88 7s 6d 100% N/A
27 Oct 1748 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Apollo and Daphne or The Burgomaster Trickd No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Jan 1749 Drury Lane The Busie Body, Lethe No No No £146 14s N/A N/A
23 Feb 1749 Drury Lane The Busie Body, The Triumph of Peace No No No £126 14s N/A N/A
28 Mar 1749 Drury Lane The Busie Body, Tit for Tat, Triumph of Peace Yes No No £79 9s 6d N/A N/A
25 Apr 1749 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Damon and Phillida, A Dialogue of Jack and Jenny Wilder Miss Falkner, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 May 1749 Drury Lane The Busie Body, Lethe, Hornpipe, Savoyards No No Yes £110 N/A N/A
16 Sep 1749 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Mock Doctor No No No £120 100% N/A
23 Nov 1749 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Savoyard Travellers, Hornpipe No No No £63 2s 6d 32% N/A
07 Dec 1749 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Perseus and Andromeda No No No £57 17s 48% N/A
29 Dec 1749 Drury Lane The Busy Body, A Duke and no Duke, Savoyard Travellers No No No £47 6s 30% N/A
07 Feb 1750 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Fair No No No £213 15s 6d 69% N/A
14 Feb 1750 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Fair No Yes No £193 N/A N/A
17 Feb 1750 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Don Saverio, Savoyard Travellers No No Yes £82 N/A N/A
04 May 1750 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Stage Coach No No Yes £198 3s N/A N/A
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