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 %
13 May 1778 Covent Garden The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great, True Blue, The Commissary, The Poney Races, The Cottage on The Lawn No No Yes £144 15s 17% N/A
23 May 1778 Covent Garden The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great, True Blue, Comus No No Yes £149 1s 6d 69% N/A
05 Apr 1779 Covent Garden The Earl Of Warwick, True Blue, The Liverpool Prize No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 Apr 1779 Covent Garden The Fair Penitent, True Blue, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 May 1779 Covent Garden Illumination, The Comedy of Errors, True Blue, The Invasion, Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Mar 1780 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Spaniards Dismayed or True Blue for Ever, The Touchstone, Dance of Sailors No No Yes £203 1s 55% N/A
01 Apr 1780 Covent Garden Artaxerxes, The Spaniards Dismayed, The Touchstone, Dance of Sailors No No Yes £231 12s 6d 59% N/A
03 Apr 1780 Covent Garden Woman's A Riddle Or The Way To Win A Widow, The Spaniards Dismayed, Poor Vulcan, Dance of Sailors No No Yes £155 1s 59% N/A
11 Apr 1780 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Spaniards Dismayed, The Jovial Crew, The Wooden Walls of England No No Yes £262 9s 68% N/A
12 Apr 1780 Covent Garden Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias, The Spaniards Dismayed, Poor Vulcan, Interlude Between Plutus and Wit, Dance of Sailors No No Yes £166 5s 44% N/A
02 Oct 1780 Covent Garden True Blue, The First Part of King Henry the Fourth With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff, The Norwood Gypsies, Dance of Sailors, The Humours of Leixlip No No No £133 13s 59% N/A
02 Apr 1781 Covent Garden King Charles The First, True Blue, Midas, Dance of Sailors No No Yes £205 19s 54% N/A
01 May 1781 Covent Garden The Mistake, True Blue, The Flitch of Bacon, The Rakes of Mallow, St David's Day; or The Village Revels, Country Dance, Double Hornpipe, Sailors Dance, The Sports of the Green or The Rivals Reconcild No No Yes £162 4s N/A N/A
22 May 1781 Covent Garden The Comedy Of Errors, True Blue, Barnaby Brittle, Dance of Sailors No No Yes £292 11s 38% N/A
10 May 1786 Covent Garden The Follies Of A Day, True Blue or The Parting Lovers, The Contrivances, The Tobacco Box No No Yes £271 2s 53% N/A
11 May 1790 Drury Lane True Blue Or A Bang At The Dons, King Henry the Fifth, The Follies of a Day No No Yes £225 5s 39% N/A
25 May 1790 Drury Lane The Heiress, True Blue, The Quaker, The Lass of Richmond No No Yes £222 18% N/A
11 Apr 1793 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, True Blue, Comus, Hornpipe, Sweet Echo, Nor on Beds of Fading Flowers No No Yes £273 3s 42% N/A
17 Apr 1793 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, True Blue, The Sultan, Hornpipe, Collins's Ode on the Passions No No Yes £258 16s 6d 56% N/A
23 Apr 1794 Covent Garden The Jealous Wife, True Blue, The Upholsterer, Hornpipe, Blow high, blow low, The Mid Watch, Rule Britannia No No Yes £384 17s 6d 29% N/A
27 May 1795 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, True Blue or The Parting Lovers, Netley Abbey, Hornpipe, Wives and Sweethearts, The Young Widow, Rule Britannia, The Days We Now Possess, The Storm, The Wand'ring Sailor, When Gen'rous Wine, Ye Gentlemen of England No No Yes £287 3s 33% N/A
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