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 %
06 Jan 1779 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Touchstone No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Apr 1779 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Liverpool Prize, The Merry Sailors, Concerto No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
30 Nov 1779 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Mirror or Harlequin Every where No No No £180 18s 51% N/A
23 May 1780 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Padlock, Triple Hornpipe, The Rakes of Mallow No No Yes £219 2s 6d N/A N/A
10 Jan 1781 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Harlequin Free Mason No No No £221 14s 62% N/A
11 Jan 1781 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Harlequin Free Mason No Yes No £290 6s 61% N/A
26 May 1781 Covent Garden The Busy Body, St Patrick's Day No No Yes £226 17s 6d 52% N/A
28 May 1782 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Devil to Pay, The Merry Sailors No No Yes £245 3s 100% N/A
23 Sep 1782 Covent Garden A New Occasional Prelude, The Busy Body, The Upholsterer No No No £314 18s 100% N/A
24 Jan 1783 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Triumph of Mirth No No No £127 13s 38% N/A
04 Jun 1783 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Tom Thumb, Damon and Musidora, Diversion a la Mode, The Devonshire Minuet No No Yes £262 19s 100% N/A
16 Sep 1783 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Quaker No No No £190 100% N/A
08 Nov 1783 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Fortunatus No No No £154 4s 42% N/A
05 Jan 1784 Drury Lane The Busy Body, The Englishman in Paris, Minuet No No No £124 1s 37% N/A
07 Feb 1784 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Harlequin Junior, Real Air Balloon No No No £126 7s 46% N/A
12 May 1784 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Harlequin Junior, The Highland Lassie, Hunting Song and Chorus [by Danby], Sweet Passion of Love No No Yes £210 5s 33% N/A
29 May 1784 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Rosina No No Yes £242 17s 100% N/A
28 Dec 1784 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Magic Cavern No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Dec 1785 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Omai No No No £232 54% N/A
27 Mar 1790 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Rosina, A Peep behind the Curtain No No Yes £346 6d 51% N/A
14 Apr 1790 Covent Garden Arden Of Feversham, The Busy Body, Thomas and Sally No No Yes £278 11s 53% N/A
27 Apr 1790 Covent Garden The Child Of Nature, The Busy Body, Thomas and Sally No No Yes £379 43% N/A
02 Dec 1790 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Farmer, The Wapping Landlady No No No £238 17s 6d 46% N/A
04 Dec 1790 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Farmer, The Wapping Landlady No No No £214 13s 44% N/A
07 Dec 1790 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Farmer, The Wapping Landlady No No No £224 2s 6d 42% N/A
16 Dec 1790 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Farmer, The Wapping Landlady No No No £131 11s 38% N/A
21 Dec 1790 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Picture of Paris No No No £225 11s 46% N/A
01 Jan 1791 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Picture of Paris No No No £179 17s 40% N/A
14 Jun 1791 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Farmer, The Wapping Landlady No No Yes £405 4s 6d 100% N/A
17 Sep 1791 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Love in a Camp or Patrick in Prussia No No No £142 5s 100% N/A
29 May 1792 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Poor Soldier No No Yes £426 13s 6d 40% N/A
20 Nov 1794 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Hercules and Omphale No No No £204 8s 49% N/A
25 Apr 1795 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Irish Mimick, Windsor Castle No No No £201 1s 45% N/A
04 Jun 1795 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Prisoner at Large, Dermot and Kathlane No No Yes £386 15s 6d N/A N/A
06 Jun 1796 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Irish Mimick, Scotch Reel No No Yes £420 19s 6d 15% N/A
04 Jan 1797 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Harlequin and Oberon No No No £274 4s 47% N/A
04 Oct 1797 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Diamond Cut Diamond or The Venetian Revels No No No £228 6d 100% N/A
09 Jan 1798 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Harlequin and Quixotte No No No £187 18s 6d 45% N/A
12 Feb 1798 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Joan of Arc or The Maid of Orleans No No No £294 6d 44% N/A
19 May 1798 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Poor Soldier No No Yes £307 17s 15% N/A
22 May 1799 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Highland Reel, Lowland Festivity No No Yes £438 18s N/A N/A
07 Jun 1800 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Irish Mimic No No Yes £296 18s 6d 30% N/A
25 Jun 1802 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Rosina No No Yes £465 17s 100% N/A
08 Dec 1802 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Don Juan No No No £217 6d 50% N/A
16 Dec 1802 Drury Lane The Busy Body, A House to be Sold No No No £206 2s 6d 38% N/A
14 Jan 1803 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Love and Magic No No No £300 2s 37% N/A
27 Jan 1803 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Love and Magic No No No £217 1s 50% N/A
23 Sep 1803 Covent Garden The Busy Body, Hartford Bridge No No No £244 7s 100% N/A
01 Feb 1804 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper No No No £365 6s 6d 53% N/A
14 May 1804 Drury Lane Paul and Virginia, The Busy Body, The Deserter of Naples No No Yes £627 9s 51% N/A
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