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 %
11 May 1773 Drury Lane The Mourning Bride, The Minor, True Blue or The Press Gang No No Yes £171 19s N/A N/A
26 Mar 1774 Covent Garden The Rival Queens, The Country Madcap, True Blue or The Press Gang No No Yes £218 14s 6d 61% N/A
06 Apr 1774 Covent Garden Jane Shore, The Citizen, True Blue Yes No Yes £145 9s 6d 45% N/A
09 Apr 1776 Covent Garden The Grecian Daughter, The Two Misers, True Blue; or, The Press Gang No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Dec 1776 Covent Garden Zenobia, True Blue or The Press Gang, The Country Wife No No No £153 7s 45% N/A
31 Mar 1777 Covent Garden The Grecian Daughter, True Blue, Midas No No Yes £276 13s 6d 63% N/A
07 Apr 1777 Covent Garden The Countess Of Salisbury, True Blue, The Jealous Husband No No Yes £246 18s 59% N/A
08 Apr 1777 Covent Garden Sir Thomas Overbury, True Blue, Midas No No Yes £220 17s 6d 47% N/A
14 Apr 1777 Covent Garden Tancred And Sigismunda, True Blue, The Country Mad Cap No No Yes £224 6d 51% N/A
13 May 1777 Covent Garden A Word To The Wise, True Blue, Three Weeks after Marriage, Pastoral Dance No No Yes £137 4s 6d 19% N/A
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