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4 unusual facts about A Jovial Crew


A Jovial Crew

The second of the performances noted by Pepys, on 27 August 1661, was attended by both King Charles II and his brother the Duke of York, eventually to reign as James II.

In turn, the great success of Gay's work may have inspired the adaptation of A Jovial Crew into a similar ballad opera (comparable to a modern musical): in 1731, Matthew Concanen, Edward Roome, and Sir William Yonge produced their adaptation, The Jovial Crew.

The publication of the play's fourth edition in 1708 was motivated by a revival at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane that year.

The title page of the first edition states that the play debuted at the Cockpit Theatre in Drury Lane in 1641.


Matthew Concanen

In 1731 Concanen, Edward Roome, & Sir William Yonge produced The Jovial Crew, an opera, adapted from Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew.


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