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Event Comment: Benefit Ray and Mrs Heron

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Ray, May, Mrs Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: As17250511

Event Comment: Benefit Ray, Duplessy, and Miss Tynte

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: End I: Comic Dance-Duplessy, Mrs Walter; III: La Matlotte-Lally, Miss Tenoe; IV: French Peasant-a Gentleman just arrived from Paris; V: Serious Dance-Young Rainton, Miss Robinson

Event Comment: Benefit Ray, Surel, Burney. Afterpiece: By Surel. Never perform'd before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Harlequin; or, The Farmer Outwitted

Dance: new Turkish Dance-Burney, Mrs Walter; A new Pierrot Dance-Burney, Rainton

Event Comment: Benefit Ray. At the particular Request of the Gentlemen of Deptford and Woolwich. Receipts: money #25 8s.; tickets #73 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: II: A new Clown-Nivelon; III: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; IV: Numidian-Glover, Miss LaTour

Music: V: The celebrated Water Musick by Mr Handel-; in which Kettle Drums-Poitier

Event Comment: Benefit Morgan and Mrs Morgan. N.B. The Night will be illuminated with the Silver Rays of Cynthia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: FFingalian-Smith, Mrs Ogden; Hornpipe-Smith, Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: Benefit Dupre, Ray, Dukes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: Shepherd by Young Weeks. II: Les Amants Comentants in the Character of a Highlander and his Lass by Dukes and Miss Baston. IV: By Desire, The Louvre, with a Minuet, by Dukes and Miss Baston. V: Pigmalion, as17340507

Song: III: As17340503

Event Comment: By Bardin, Havard, Ray, Miss Norman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: I: Dutch Skippers by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. III: La Follette c'est Ravizee by Tench and Mrs Woodward. V: Scotch Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, Vallois, Mrs Woodward, Tench, Miss Norman

Song: As17350429

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Egerton 2320: Berry, Oats & Shepard discharg'd much noise in ye Pit for ye restoring of Oats. Griffin at Rotterdam, Jack Ray did his part. Milward's [?] a good one--the first night of Beard's playing--his success great. Receipts: #115. [For performances at the Fairs, see season of 1736-1737.] Daily Advertiser, 22 Aug.: The House [dl] is neatly decorated, and a very large Lobby prepar'd for the Servants that keep Places, with two Fire Places, Seats, near the Boxes, where a Person is to attend to call them, whe wanted by their Masters or Ladies. There is also a new Passage to the Pit, which will make it much more convenient for the Audience

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit Haughton. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [Tickets for Ray and Mrs Bennet taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; II: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Haughton, Mrs Thompson; III: Polish Dance-Haughton, Mrs Walter; IV: Drunken Peasant-Philips; V: Scots Dance-Haughton, Vallois, Rector, Mrs Walter, Miss Thompson, Mrs Vallois

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: As17430915, but Sylvia-Mrs Woffington; Kite-Winstone; Recruits-_Anderson, Ray; Welch Collier-Blakes; Rose-Mrs Ridout.
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Role: Recruits Actor: _Anderson, Ray

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: As17431029

Dance: As17431015

Event Comment: Benefit Ray, Leigh, Gray, Pritchard, Miss Minors, Miss Edgerton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies

Song: I, III: Lowe

Dance: II: Sga Bettini

Event Comment: Benefit Taswell, Ray, Leigh, Miss Pitt, and Miss Royer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17480924, but Hamlet-Garrick; Gravediggers-_Vaughan, Ray.
Cast
Role: Gravediggers Actor: _Vaughan, Ray.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17490126, but Gravediggers-_Vaughan, Ray; Polonius-James; Ophelia-Mrs Cibber 1st time; Lucianus-_; Rosencraus-_; Guildenstern-_; Marcellus-_; Player King-_; Player Queen-_.
Cast
Role: Gravediggers Actor: _Vaughan, Ray

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Song: Beard

Event Comment: Benefit for Ray, George Burton, Mrs Pitt. Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. [See 16 May 1744.] Tickets and places to be had of Hobson at the stage door. N.B. Tickets sold by the Orange@women at the doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #150 (Cross); charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Anatomist

Music: Between the acts: Flute-the Child

Dance: Between the acts: Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

Song: Between the acts: George Burton

Event Comment: Benefit for Pritchard, Treasurer. Tickets his house next the Chapel in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields. This day publish'd at 1s.A Poetical Epistle from Shakespear in Elysium, to Mr Garrick at Drury Lane Theatre. Printed for J. Newberry (General Advertiser). Old Jack Ray, dy'd (Cross). Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

Song: I: Master Vernon

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks and Dickenson. On Friday last died Mr Ray, an Old Comedian, belonging to Drury Lane; but his benefit, which is to be on Monday next, is put under the management of some eminent Tradesmen his friends, who intend to employ the profits of it towards the discharge of his creditors. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-The Little Swiss; IV: A Comic Dance-Harvey, Miss Shawford

Song: III: Mattocks; IV: Mattocks

Entertainment: S+Specialty. After: An Elogium to $Shakespeare, as17520421

Event Comment: Benefit of Mr Foote (Cross). Tickets of Foote at Mr Ray's, a woolen-draper, in Tavistock Row, Covent Garden, and at the stage door. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Rec'd stopages #11 13s. Paid Mr Norfolk (glazier) #48 9s.; Thompson (smith) #10 7s.; Hopkins prompter's bill #23 9s. 6d.; Ray, linen draper's bill #115 19s. 6d.; Barrow and Co., oil #99; Cubitt (tinman) #8; Vaughan (haberdasher) #4 3s. 6d. Receipts: #219 6s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Event Comment: Benefit for Vernon. Rec'd Mrs Johnston's rent 1 year to Lady Day #6. Paid Powney (stationer) #7 2s. 6d.; Ray (linen draper) #25 6s. 6d.; Vaughan (haberdasher) #4 10s. 6d.; Norfolk (glazier) #2 3s.; Barrow and Co. Oil #54 15s. 6d.; Pryer (turner) #5 18s. 6d.; Carter (scowerer) #9 8s. 6d.; Evans for Spermacetti Candles #5; Watch Rate half year #18 15s.; Cubit (tinman) #2 6d. Receipts: #160 10s. Charges: #66 16s. Profits to Vernon: #93 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: End Opera: The Grand Garland Dance, as17760311