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
£3,100 5s 6d £1,154 10s (37.2%) £1,945 15s 6d (62.8%)
1732 - 1809
£3,100 5s 6d - (100%) £1,154 10s (37.2%) £1,945 15s 6d (62.8%)
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 %
24 Mar 1748 Covent Garden The Lady's Last Stake Or The Wifes Resentment, Damon and Phillida, Ellen A Roon No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Apr 1748 Covent Garden The Pilgrim, Miss in Her Teens, Go Rose, Minuet, Come Ever Smiling Liberty Tis Liberty Alone, Ellen A Roon, Se Spuntan Vezzoze No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Apr 1748 Covent Garden The Committee, Damon and Phillida, Ellen A Roon, Minuet, Louvre, Peasant, Pigmalion No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 Apr 1752 Covent Garden Zara, The Dragon of Wantly, Grand Dutch Dance, Ellen Aroon, Grand Scots Ballet, Louvre, Minuet Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
02 Apr 1755 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Press Gang or Love in Low Life, Ellen A Roon, The Lady's Lesson No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Mar 1756 Covent Garden Ulysses, The Frenchified Lady Never in Paris, Fingalian Dance, Ellen A Roon No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Mar 1757 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Author, Ellen A Roon Yes No Yes £260 N/A N/A
22 Apr 1757 Covent Garden The Fair Penitent, The Double Disappointment, Myself I Shall Adore, Fingalian Revels, Dutch Dance, Ellen A Roon Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 May 1757 Drury Lane The Earl Of Essex, The Toyshop, Ellen A Roon, Hornpipe Yes No Yes £260 N/A N/A
17 Mar 1760 Covent Garden The Tender Husband Or The Accomplishd Fools, The Honest Yorkshireman, When Gentle Parthenissa, Ellen-A-Roon, Fingalian Dance, The Plowman No No Yes £246 11s 6d N/A N/A
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