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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Abrams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Abrams")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04
487 results for: Keyword - Abrams
We found 544 matches on Roles/Actors, 91 matches on Performance Comments, 21 matches on Performance Title, 9 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

1
17 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren, Baker & Miss Abrams. Receipts: #140 19s. 6d. (48.2.0; 15.5.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 77.12.0) (charge: #74 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Fawcett, Legg, Kear, Brown, Chaplin, Mrs Scott, Miss Collett, Miss Abrams, Miss Boyd, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Smith.

Song: End: The Soldier tir'd With war's Alarms-Miss Abrams

2
08 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Waldron and Miss Abrams. Morning Chronicle, 6 May: Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 16, Glanville-street, Rathbone Place; of Miss Abrams, Little Bridges-street. Receipts: #138 5s. (50.10; 22.17; 0.9; tickets: 64.9) (charge: #71 4s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17781102, but Prospero-Bensley; Ariel-Miss Abrams [1st appearance in that character]; Chorus of Spirits-_Legg, _Carpenter, _Fawcett, Miss _Abrams.
Cast
Role: Ariel Actor: Miss Abrams
Role: Chorus of Spirits Actor: _Legg, _Carpenter, _Fawcett, Miss _Abrams.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17790501, but Pastoral Nymph-Miss Abrams.
Cast
Role: Pastoral Nymph Actor: Miss Abrams.

Dance: In IV: Dance-Henry, Miss Armstrong

Song: As17790413

3
09 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Waldron and Miss Abrams. Public Advertiser, 8 May: Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 16, Glanville-street, Rathbone Place; of Miss Abrams, Little Bridges-street, Drury-lane. Receipts: #182 0s. 6d. [63.6.0; 23.15.0; 0.2.6; tickets: 94.17.0) (charge: #74 3s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: As17780120, but Dorus-Waldron; Sylvia-Miss Abrams (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Sylvia Actor: Miss Abrams

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17780508

4
06 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Colles, Miss Abrams & Miss Kirby. Public Advertiser, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Colles at Smith's No. 10, Bow-street, the corner of Martlet Court, Covent Garden; of Miss Abrams, Little Bridges Street, Covent Garden; of Miss Kirby at Andrews's, No. 70, Long Acre. Receipts: #203 7s. (28.1; 14.16; 1.11; tickets: 158.19) (charge: #90 2s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performance Comment: As17791118, but Gillian-Miss Abrams (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Gillian Actor: Miss Abrams

5
20 April 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Benefit for Miss Abrams (who perform'd the Little Gipsey). Tickets deliver'd for The Maid of the Mill, and by Mr Norris and Mrs Veal will be taken. Rec'd Stopages #11 9s. 6d. Paid salary list #621 16s. 6d.; Mr Gardner (By Order) one night #5 5s. Receipts: #78 16s. Charges: #70 5s. 6d. Profits to Miss Abrahams: #8 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Oaks

Performance Comment: As17760409 but Hurry-Waldron, first time; Architect-Norris; Maria-Miss P. Hopkins; Shepherdess, with songs incident to the piece-Miss Abrams; Vocal Parts-Mrs Smith, Mrs _Scott.
Cast
Role: with songs incident to the piece Actor: Miss Abrams

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Song: V: (By Desire) The Soldier Tir'd-Miss Abrams

6
01 January 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Wright; Mercury-Davies; Snip-Parsons; Simon-Moody; Gasconade-Baddeley; Corporal Bounce-Bransby; Abram-Waldron; Forge-Griffiths; Bogg-Messink; Taffy-Burton; Crib-Everard; Jailor-Carpenter; Turnkey-R. Palmer; Justices-Wrighten, Follett, Norris, Nash, Marr; Falstaff-Gaudry; Slender-Baker; Old Woman-Mr Dodd; Mrs Snip-Mrs Bradshaw; Sukey Chitterlin-Mrs Davies; Dolly Snip-Miss Pope; Vocal Parts-Fawcett, Legg, Kear, Brown, Chaplin, Mrs Scott, Miss Collett, Miss Abrams, Miss Boyd, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Smith.
Cast
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Fawcett, Legg, Kear, Brown, Chaplin, Mrs Scott, Miss Collett, Miss Abrams, Miss Boyd, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Smith.

7
11 March 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Mode And The New; Or, Country Miss With Her Fourbeloe

8
01 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

9
28 September 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

10
28 September 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

11
07 October 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

12
21 October 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

13
10 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

14
20 November 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

15
20 October 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

16
04 October 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

17
30 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Dance: As17561217

18
07 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

19
01 November 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

20
06 January 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17581016

21
26 February 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17581016

22
17 April 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Entertainment: Between Play and Farce: Shuter's Dish of All Sorts, As17590322, for that night only

Dance: As17581016

23
08 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: III: Fingalian Dance-Miss Hilliard; End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

24
31 October 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

25
22 June 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet