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943 results for: Keyword - Abel
We found 544 matches on Roles/Actors, 370 matches on Author, 202 matches on Performance Comments, 23 matches on Performance Title, and 19 matches on Event Comments.

1
17 December 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: by Particular Desire. N.B. Mr Yates refus'd to play Kastril. (Mr King play'd it.) Mr Weston play'd Abel Drugger, was well receiv'd & indeed he play'd much better than could Expect from him. his figure was much in his favour (Hopkins). Mr Weston Drugger. great applause (Cross Diary). Mr Yates would not play his part [Kastril].-Abel Drugger by Mr Weston,-who went thro' it much beyond what any one could expect,-and, considering so great a man as Mr Garrick was his predecessor, twas wonderful. Upon the whole, I think he played it very decently. His figure is much in his favour.-He received great applause (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan). Receipts: #85 14s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Weston, first time; Kastril-King; Dol Common-Mrs Lee; Surly-Baddeley; Sir Epicure Mammon-Love; Subtle-Burton; Face-Palmer; Ananias-Philips; Tribulation-Clough; Lovewit-Packer; Dame Pliant-Mrs Bennet; Dapper-Vaughan.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Weston, first time

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End: Reviv'd The Prussian Camp-Grimaldi, Aldridge, Lauchery, Miss Baker

2
04 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Abel

Performance Comment: Parts were for four characters and a chorus: Adam-; Eve-; Abel-; Cain-; Chorus of Angels- (BM 1342 k. 19).
Cast
Role: Abel Actor:

Music: As17700307

3
11 April 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: House (Hopkins Diary). The new Comedy of The Runaway is unavoidably oblig'd to be deferred till Saturday. Rec'd Mr Stanley's Oratorio Account, 11 nights, #327 5s. Paid Lawrence (paper hanger) #13 7s.; Renters (for 11 Oratorio nights) #88; Cubit (tinman) #7 14s. 6d.; Gardner (shoemaker) #25; Chettle (timber merchant) #22 14s. 6d.; Mist andCo. (brazier) #10 8s.; Thomson (smith) #5 16s. 6d. Barrow andCo. (oil) #106 5s.; Tallow Chandler's 8th Bill #26 12s.; Palmer's Bill of Bath for Spermacetti Candles #162 10s. (Treasurer's Book). [MacMillan quotes from Kemble's note on the playbill, a Garrick interpolation in Drugger 's last speech (IV, vii): "Abel: Did you never see me play the Fool? Face: Yes. Abel: But the wise ones say I have played the Fool long enough; So I am going to leave it off and grow melancholy." [This note does not appear in the Hopkins Diary in the Folger Library.] Receipts: #265 17s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Performance Comment: As17751125, but Abel Drugger-Garrick, for the last time of performing it.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Garrick, for the last time of performing it.

Afterpiece Title: The Spleen

Dance: V: The Irish Fair, as17751003

4
24 February 1768 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Abel

Performance Comment: Personnae Abel-; Adamo-; Eva-; Caino-; Angelo-; Coro-; additional Chorusses-; the Evening Hymn-.
Cast
Role: Personnae Abel Actor:

Music: First Violin Solo-Barthelemon; Concerto on Hautboy-Simpson

5
16 April 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: Abel-Bullock Sr; Careless-Ryan; Blunt-Quin; Day-Hippisley; Obadiah-Morgan; Teague-H. Bullock; Mrs Day-Mrs Egleton; Ruth-Mrs Bullock; Arbella-Mrs Boheme.
Cast
Role: Abel Actor: Bullock Sr

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Dance: As17221016

6
21 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Garrick, 1st time; Face-Macklin; Subtle-Mills; Sir Epicure Mammon-Berry; Dol Common-Mrs Macklin; Ananias-Morgan; Tribulation-Taswell; Surly-Cross; Dapper-Leigh; Lovewit-Turbutt; Kastril-Neale; Dame Pliant-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Garrick, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: II: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310 IV: Italian Gardeners, as17421231

Song: III: Beard

7
06 November 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Garrick; Subtle-Bridges; Face-Cross; Sir Epicure-Berry; Lovewit-Turbutt; Ananias-Phillips; Tribulation-Taswell; Surly-Havard; Dapper-Green; Kastril-Neale; Dame Pliant-Mrs Bennet; Doll Common-Mrs Cross.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

8
28 September 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Collins; Subtle-Mills; Face-Macklin; Sir Epicure-Berry; Lovewit-Turbutt; Doll Common-Mrs Macklin; Ananias-Neale; Tribulation-Taswell; Surly-Havard; Dapper-Leigh; Kastril-Yates; Dame Pliant-Mrs Horsington.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Collins

Song: I: Lowe; IV: Colin and Phebe-Lowe, Mrs Arne; God Save our Noble King by Arne-Mrs Cibber, Beard, Reinhold (Deutsch, Handel, p. 623)

Dance: II: Grand Serious Dance-; V: Grand Comic Dance, as17450926

9
25 September 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Cibber Jun.; Subtle-Mills; Face-Macklin; Epicure-Berry; Surly-Blakes; Ananias-Neale; Tribulation-Taswell; Lovewit-Bridges; Kastril-Yates; Dapper-Leigh; Dame Pliant-Mrs Horsington; Doll-Mrs Macklin.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Cibber Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

10
07 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Garrick; Subtle-Mills; Face-Cross; Sir Epicure-Berry; Kastril-Yates; Ananias-Neale; Tribulation-Taswell; Surly-Blakes; Lovewit-Bridges; Dapper-Vaughan; Dame Pliant-Miss Pitt; Doll Common-Mrs Cross.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: The Aurettis, Cooke, Matthews

11
20 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Garrick; Face-Woodward first time; Subtle-Burton; Sir Epicure Mammon-Berry; Kastril-Yates; Dol Common-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Devisse, Ferrere, Mlle Auretti

12
11 December 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Garrick; Subtle-Woodward; Face-Palmer, their first appearance in those characters; Kastril-Yates; Surly-Blakes; Dol Common-Mrs Pritchard; Ananias-Philips; Dapper-Vaughan; Lovewit-Bransby; Dame Pliant-Mrs Bennet; Sir Epicure-Berry; Tribulation-Taswell.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

13
07 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Garrick; Subtle-Woodward; Farce-Palmer; Doll Common-Mrs Pritchard; Ananias-Philips; Dapper-Vaughan; Lovewit-Bransby; Dame Pliant-Mrs Bennet; Sir Epicure-Berry; Kastril-Yates; Surly-Blakes; Tribulation-Taswell.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

14
27 January 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Garrick; Subtle-Woodward; Doll Common-Mrs Pritchard; Face-Palmer; Ananias-Philips; Dapper-Vaughan; Lovewit-Bransby; Dame Pliant-Mrs Bennet; Sir Epicure-Berry; Kastril-Yates; Surly-Blakes; Tribulation-Taswell.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17580120

15
09 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Garrick; Subtle-Burton; Face-Palmer; Sir Epicure-Bransby; Tribulation-Clough; Kastril-Yates; Lovewit-Packer; Doll-Mrs Pritchard; Dame Pliant-Mrs Bennet; Surly-Blakes; Ananias-Philips; Dapper-Vaughan.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

16
15 October 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Weston.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Weston.

Entertainment: Between the Acts:, particularly Scrub's Trip to the Jubilee-

17
15 July 1771 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Bath

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Weston; Subtle-Gardner; Knowlife-Fearon; Face-Robson; Headlong-Vandermere; Sir Epicure-F. Gentleman; Miss Rantipole-Mrs Didier; Doll-Mrs Gardner.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Weston

Dance: I: As17710712 End of Play: New Pantomime Dance, as17710710

18
20 September 1771 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Mrs Gardner.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Mrs Gardner.

Entertainment: IV: Double Hornpipe-Master and Miss West; End of Play: Bucks have at ye all-a young Gentleman, first appearance on any stage

19
21 April 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Weston; Face-Palmer; Subtle-J. Aickin; Sir Epicure-Wright; Knowlife-Griffith; Headlong-Keen; Doll Tricksey-Mrs Egerton; Miss Rantipole-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Weston

Entertainment: Interlude. All up at Stockwell; or, The Ghost no Conjuror, a New Interlude-Characters-Weston, Bannister

Dance: After Interlude: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

20
01 January 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Performance Comment: Abel-Burton; First Committeeman-Hartry; Second Committeeman-Griffith; Teague (With Songs)-Moody; Careless-Jefferson; Col. Blunt-J. Aickin; Lt Story-Fawcett; Mr Day-Baddeley; Obadiah-Love; Arabella-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Day-Mrs Bradshaw; Ruth-Mrs Egerton.
Cast
Role: Abel Actor: Burton
Role: Arabella Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

21
04 August 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bankrupt

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Weston; Subtle-Aickin; Face-Fearon; Sir Epicure-Lloyd; Knowlife-Courtney; Headlong-Ward; Doll-Miss Platt.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Weston

Dance: End: A Tambourine Dance-Giorgi's Scholars

22
14 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Garrick; Subtle-J. Aickin; Face-Palmer; Sir Epicure-Love; Kastril-Burton; Tribulation-Hartry; Ananias-Parsons; Dapper-W. Palmer; Mob-Ackman, Jacobs, Wright, Keen; Surly-Baddeley; Lovewit-Packer; Doll Common-Mrs Hopkins; Dame Pliant-Mrs Johnston.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

23
19 September 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Weston; Subtle-Griffith; Face-Fearon; Sir Epicure Mammon-Lloyd; Knowlife-Chaplin; Headlong-Ward; Miss Rantipole-Mrs Whitefield; Doll-Mrs Gardner.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Weston

Entertainment: End I of Farce: Imitations Vocal and Rhetorical-Bannister

Monologue: End: A Scene from The Register Office. Gulwell-Lloyd; Little Girl-Miss Frances; new character-Mrs Gardner

24
21 September 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Weston; Subtle-Griffith; Face-L'Estrange; Mammon-Lloyd; Headlong-Jacobs; Knowlife-Chaplin; Mrs Rantipole-Mrs Whitefield; Doll-Mrs Gardner; Between the Acts of the Farce a Mason's Song-. By Permission. By particular desire of the Antient and Hon. Society of Free and Accepted Masons.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Weston

Monologue: Interlude: Scene from The Register Office. Gulwell-Lloyd; Little Girl-Miss Frances; New Character-Mrs Gardner

Entertainment: Imitations Vocal and Rhetorical-Bannister

25
30 October 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Village Author(s): Karl F. Abel

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Jacobs; Face-Follett; Subtle-Saul; Knowlife-Chaplin; Headlong-Bailey; Miss Rantipole-Mrs Bailey; Doll-Mrs Parker.
Cast
Role: Abel Drugger Actor: Jacobs

Entertainment: A Variety of New TheatricalImitations-Hutton

Song: End Opera: Several celebrated Catches and Glees by Dr Arne-