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1361 results for: Keyword - Taylor
We found 1332 matches on Roles/Actors, 386 matches on Performance Comments, 113 matches on Event Comments, 91 matches on Performance Title, and 10 matches on Author.

1251
23 November 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [acted 21 Jan. 1789. Mrs Esten has 1st acted Belvidera at Bath in the season of 1786-87]. Afterpiece [1st time; M. INT 2, by John Cartwright Cross. Larpent MS 883; not published. Prologue by John Taylor (his Taylor, Poems, I, 43). Rees' 1st appearance at this theatre was on 14 May 1788]: The Overture and the whole of the Music by Dibdin. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Most of these songs had originally appeared in Dibdin's "table entertainment," The Oddities, 1st performed at the Lyceum, 7 Dec. 1789.] Receipts: #244 18s. 6d. (234.8.0; 10.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: In afterpiece: Dancing-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

1252
23 November 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [acted 21 Jan. 1789. Mrs Esten has 1st acted Belvidera at Bath in the season of 1786-87]. Afterpiece [1st time; M. INT 2, by John Cartwright Cross. Larpent MS 883; not published. Prologue by John Taylor (his Taylor, Poems, I, 43). Rees' 1st appearance at this theatre was on 14 May 1788]: The Overture and the whole of the Music by Dibdin. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Most of these songs had originally appeared in Dibdin's "table entertainment," The Oddities, 1st performed at the Lyceum, 7 Dec. 1789.] Receipts: #244 18s. 6d. (234.8.0; 10.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: In afterpiece: Dancing-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

1253
29 October 1660 @ The City, London

Event Comment: Edition of 1660: The Royal Oake, with Other various and delightfull Scenes presented on the Water and the Land, Celebrated in Honour of the deservedly Honoured Sir Richard Brown, Bar. Lord Mayor of the City of London, The 29th day of October...and performed at the Costs and Charges of the Right Worshipfull Company of Merchant-Taylors. [Tatham refers to Dyamond, a Lightfoot, Paynter; Thomas Whitein, Joyner; and Richard Cleere, Carver.] Pepys, Diary: And I...at the Key in Cheapside; where there was a company of fine ladies, and we were very civilly treated, and had a very good place to see the pageants, which were many, and I believe good, for such kind of things, but in themselves but poor and absurd. Evelyn, Diary: My Lord Majors shew stop'd me in cheape-side: one of the Pageants represented a greate Wood, with the royal Oake, & historie of his Majesties miraculous escape at Bosco-bell &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Oake

1254
24 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. If the run of The Wits occurred as it is outlined above, this would presumably be the first day of Hamlet. Pepys, Diary: To the Opera, and there saw Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, done with scenes very well, but above all, Betterton did the prince's part beyond imagination. Downes (p. 21): The Tragedy of Hamlet: Hamlet being Perform'd by Mr Betterton, Sir William (having seen Mr Taylor of the Black-Fryars Company Act it, who being Instructed by the Author Mr Shakespear) taught Mr Betterton in every Particle of it; which by his exact Performance of it, gain'd him Esteem and Reputation, Superlative to all other Plays...No succeeding Tragedy for several Years got more Reputation, or Money to the Company than this

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

1255
29 October 1666 @ The City, London

Event Comment: Because of losses incurred in the fire, the Merchant Taylors' Company omitted the pageantry in the swearing in of the Lord Mayor. See R. T. D. Sayle, The Lord Mayors' Pageants (1931), p. 131

Performances

1256
27 March 1690 @ Merchant Taylors Hall

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2542, 20-24 March 1689@90: The Annual Yorkshire Feast will be held the 27th instant at Merchant-Taylor's-Hall in Threadneedle-street; with a very splendid Entertainment of all sorts of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. D'Urfey (Wit and Mirth, I, 114-16): An Ode on the Assembly of the Nobility and Gentry of the City and County of York, at the Anniversary-Feast, March the 27th 1690. Set to Musick by Mr Henry Purcell, One of the finest Compositions he ever made, and cost 100l. the performing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1257
30 October 1693 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

Performance Comment: Performed on Monday October 30, 1693. For the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir William Ashurst, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing A True Description of the several Pageants; with the Speeches Spoken on each Pageant. All set forth at the proper Cost and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. Together with The Festival Songs for His Lordship and the Companies Diversion.

1258
10 May 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Lovelace and Taylor, Boxkeepers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Song: Four and Twenty Stock Jobbers-Harper

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper; delaGarde's Two Sons, Sandham's Son, Miss Francis

1259
22 May 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Lovelace and Taylor, Boxkeepers. Receipts: money #10 3s.; tickets #125 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Dance: As17201214; as17210518: Son and Daughter of Sandham; A Comic Scene, as17210518

1260
24 May 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Loveless and Taylor, Boxkeepers. Receipts: money #9 4s. 6d.; tickets #116 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: Hob;or The Country Wake

Dance:

1261
23 May 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Lovelace and Taylor, Boxkeepers. Written by the late Mr Otway. Receipts: money #13 17s.; tickets #99 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Dance: The Galliard-Lally, Mrs Cross; Two Punches and Harlequin-; Dutch Skipper-Pelling, Mrs Bullock; Lally, Lally Jr, Newhouse, Pelling, Mrs Cross, Mrs Bullock

1262
19 May 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor and Lovelace, Boxkeepers. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #6 17s.; tickets #114 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Song: In Praise of Love and Wine-Leveridge, Legare

Dance: Saraband-Dupre, Mrs Wall; Pastoral-Glover, Mrs Wall; Stripping Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Rogier

1263
18 May 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor and Lovelace, Boxkeepers. Receipts: money #23 3s. 6d.; tickets #121 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sauny The Scot; Or, The Taming Of The Shrew

Dance: HHighland Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Chacone-Lally, Mrs Wall; Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; Myrtillo-

1264
14 May 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor and Lawrence, Boxkeepers. Receipts: money #13 11s. 6d.; tickets #96 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Dance: CChacone-Mrs Wall; Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Louvre-Dupre, Mrs Wall; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

1265
22 May 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Jones, Numberer; Taylor, First Gallery Keeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Dance: End I: Harlequin Dance-Young Master Lally, Miss Brett; II: Miss Brett; Comic Dance-Rainton, Miss Robinson Sr; III: Turks Dance-Thurmond; IV: Rainton, Miss Robinson; Miss Brett; V: Pieraite-Roger, Mrs Brett; Drunken Man-Harper

1266
30 May 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Lawrence and Taylor, Boxkeepers. Receipts: money #14 14s.; tickets #90 13s. Probable attendance: boxes, 21 by money and 100 by tickets; stage, 1 by money; pit, 23 by money and 269 by tickets; slips, 2 by money; first gallery, 26 by money and 253 by tickets; second gallery, 31 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Song: End I: The Merry Month of May-Miss Warren; IV: L'Amorche Parte Sento-Miss Warren

Dance: I: Milkmaids' Dance-; II: A new Dance to the Tune of Tamo Tanto-Miss LaTour; III: Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; V: Pastoral Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre

1267
09 May 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Jones, Numberer; and Taylor, Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

1268
22 May 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Lawrence and Taylor, Boxkeepers. Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #10 7s.; tickets #115 19s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: End II: Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; III: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; IV: Two Pierrots-Salle, Pelling; V: Myrtillo, as17290508

1269
07 May 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Jones, the Numberer, and Taylor and Cooper, Boxkeepers. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

1270
13 May 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Cooper, Beaw, Widow Cook

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Dance:

1271
10 May 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Beaw, Cooper, Widow Cook (Boxkeeper). Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: TThe Hussars-Essex, Mrs Booth; Saraband-Lally, Miss Mears

1272
23 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Beau, Cooper, Widow Cook [Rich's Register)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

1273
22 May 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Cooper, Beaw, Boxkeepers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I.: Pierrots by Fisher Tench and Davenport. II: Dutchman and his Wife by Le Brun and Mrs Walter. III: Scot's Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. IV: English Maggot by S. Lally and Mrs Walter. V: Revellers by Essex, Miss Latour, &c

1274
29 May 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Boxkeeper. Tickets for Cooper taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Dutchman an J his Frow by Le Brun and Miss Brett. II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Black Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. V: Amorous Swain, as17350327

Song: IV: Mock Italian-English Ballad by Roberts

1275
27 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Boxkeeper. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. [Tickets for Cooper also taken.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Scot's Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: By Denoyer's Apprentice. IV: Minuet by Villeneuve and Mrs Anderson