The Parting Lovers [True Blue] (1739)

Author
Henry Carey
Author
Thomas Hull (1776)
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Interlude
Performance Medium
Musical
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
£10,058 8s 6d £9,439 4s 6d (93.8%) £619 4s (6.2%)
1732 - 1809
£10,058 8s 6d - (100%) £9,439 4s 6d (93.8%) £619 4s (6.2%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
96 93 3
1732 - 1809
96 93 3
Notes
First performed as a song or entra'acte entertainment in 1739 and developed in a variety of different guises. Revived in 1755 as 'True Blue; or, The Press Gang' and was revived again as a patriotic afterpiece by Thomas Hull in 1776.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
23 Apr 1742 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Peasants, Ruddier Than the Cherry, Minuet, Pantaloon and Enamorata, True Blue Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
02 Apr 1755 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Press Gang or Love in Low Life, Ellen A Roon, The Lady's Lesson No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Apr 1755 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, The Press Gang, Comic Entertainment Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Apr 1755 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery, The Press Gang, Pantomime Peasant Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 Apr 1755 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, The Press Gang No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1756 Covent Garden The Miser, The Press Gang or The Parting Lovers, Les Paisans Gallants, To Arms, Britons Strike Home No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
12 Nov 1770 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, True Blue or The Press Gang, Harlequin Skeleton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Nov 1770 Covent Garden The Fair Penitent, The Author, True Blue No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Nov 1770 Covent Garden Barbarossa, True Blue, The Englishman Returnd from Paris No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Nov 1770 Covent Garden The Fair Penitent, True Blue, Harlequin Skeleton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Nov 1770 Covent Garden Cymbeline, True Blue, Harlequin Skeleton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Nov 1770 Covent Garden The Brothers, True Blue, The Rape of Proserpine Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Dec 1770 Covent Garden Hamlet, Harlequin Skeleton, True Blue No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Dec 1770 Covent Garden Cyrus, True Blue, The Author No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Dec 1770 Covent Garden Cyrus, True Blue, Duke and no Duke No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Dec 1770 Covent Garden Cyrus, True Blue, The Country Madcap No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Dec 1770 Covent Garden The Miser, True Blue, The Author No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Mar 1771 Covent Garden Clementina, True Blue, The Country Madcap No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Apr 1771 Covent Garden Barbarossa, True Blue, The Padlock No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 Apr 1771 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, True Blue, The Upholsterer No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 Apr 1771 Covent Garden George Barnwell, True Blue, Harlequin Skeleton Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 Apr 1771 Covent Garden Jane Shore, The Padlock, True Blue Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
29 Apr 1771 Covent Garden Hamlet, True Blue, The Merry Counterfeit or Viscount a la Mode No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
09 Nov 1771 Covent Garden George Barnwell, The Commissary, True Blue; or, The Press Gang No No No £129 13s 41% N/A
11 Nov 1771 Covent Garden Timanthes, The Apprentice, True Blue No No No £198 13s 51% N/A
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