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 %
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
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