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 %
14 Dec 1771 Covent Garden Zobeide, The Apprentice, True Blue No No No £197 1s 6d 60% N/A
17 Dec 1771 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Catherine and Petruchio, True Blue No No Yes £138 14s N/A N/A
18 Dec 1771 Covent Garden Every Man In His Humour, Lethe, True Blue No No No £136 1s 46% N/A
18 Jan 1772 Covent Garden Zobeide, Man and Wife, True Blue, Comic Dance Yes No No £103 19s 6d 33% N/A
24 Jan 1772 Covent Garden Zobeide, The Upholsterer, True Blue No No Yes £130 3s N/A N/A
07 Apr 1772 Covent Garden The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great, The Apprentice, True Blue No No Yes £221 7s 69% N/A
21 Apr 1772 Covent Garden Hamlet, Chrononhotonthologos, True Blue No No Yes £233 12s 6d 49% N/A
02 May 1772 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, The Spanish Lady, True Blue No No Yes £151 16s 6d 59% N/A
05 May 1772 Covent Garden Twelfth Night, The Country Madcap, True Blue, Ailen Aroon, Minuet Yes No Yes £138 12s 6d 68% N/A
11 May 1773 Covent Garden The Rival Queens, True Blue, The Englishman in Paris No No Yes £198 13s N/A N/A
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