Ellen a Roon ()

Work Type
N/A
Genre
Song
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
£2,464 1s 6d £555 11s (22.5%) £1,908 10s 6d (77.5%)
1732 - 1809
£2,464 1s 6d - (100%) £555 11s (22.5%) £1,908 10s 6d (77.5%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
27 16 11
1732 - 1809
27 16 11
Notes
Many variant spellings used for this song's name in eighteenth-century London, but "Ellen a Roon" seems to have been the most common in a theatrical context. The song remains popular in the twenty-first century and is typically now rendered "Eibhlín a Rún" or "Eileen Aroon".
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
08 Mar 1742 Drury Lane The Man Of Mode Or Sir Fopling Flutter, The Virgin Unmasked, Sweet Bird, The Italian Peasants, Ballet, Elin A Roon No Yes Yes £230 N/A N/A
22 Mar 1742 Drury Lane The Confederacy, The Mock Doctor, Bright Author Of My Present Flame, New Serious Dance, Elina Roon, The Italian Peasants Yes Yes Yes £170 N/A N/A
05 Apr 1742 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Mock Doctor, Concerto, Elin A Roon, Le Boufon Yes No Yes £188 N/A N/A
06 Apr 1742 Drury Lane The Man Of Mode, The Mock Doctor, Let Me Wander Not Unseen, Concerto, Elin A Roon, The Drunken Peasant, The Italian Peasants Yes No Yes £190 N/A N/A
20 Apr 1742 Drury Lane The Committee, Chrononhotonthologos Emperor of Queeramania, Bumper Squire Jones, Le Boufon, Elin A Roon, The Drunken Peasant Yes No Yes £150 N/A N/A
01 May 1742 Drury Lane The Miser, The King and Miller of Mansfield, The Noontide Air, Running Footman's Dance, Dutch Dance, Ellen A Roon Yes No Yes £50 N/A N/A
17 May 1742 Drury Lane The Provoked Husband, The King and Miller of Mansfield, Let Me Wander Not Unseen, Dutch Dance, Ellen A Roon, Happy Pair, Hornpipe No No Yes £80 N/A N/A
14 Mar 1745 Covent Garden The Lady's Last Stake Or The Wifes Resentment, The Devil to Pay, Wanton Breezes, Ellen A Roon, Let Caesar and Urania Live Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Apr 1745 Covent Garden Hamlet Prince Of Denmark, The Mock Doctor, Comic Dance, Ellen a Roon, Le Gondalier Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Mar 1748 Drury Lane The Provoked Wife, The What Dye Call It, Ellen A Roon Yes No Yes £220 N/A N/A
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