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6092 results for: Keyword - Mr Taylor
We found 4313 matches on Event Comments, 1505 matches on Performance Comments, 618 matches on Performance Title, 28 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1301
08 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Dance: III 2nd piece: a Hornpipe-Master Byrn, in girl's clothes (London Chronicle, 9 Aug., and see17810810) This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances

1302
16 September 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: A comic Dance call'd The German Hunters-Master Settree, Miss Twist

1303
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

1304
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

1305
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.

1306
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

1307
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

1308
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: Hobor The Country Wake

Dance:

1309
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

1310
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-

1311
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

1312
22 May 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud 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

1313
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

1314
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

1315
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

1316
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:

1317
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

1318
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

1319
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

1320
24 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Boxkeeper. Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus and Moliere. [By this day the newspapers had recorded, in a variety of versions, that a Licensing Act was under consideration in Parliament.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; II: Harlequin-Denoyer's@Prentice; III: Punch's Dance, as17370519; IV: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve; V: Russian Sailor-Denoyer's Prentice

1321
08 November 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Dancing-Master. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Song: CChancon a Boire-Leveridge, Laguerre

Dance: Glover, Mlle Roland

1322
27 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Boxkeeper. Mainpiece: Written b9 Ben Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: Punch-Master Ferg; III: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

1323
23 May 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Boxkeeper. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: I: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Pierots-Leviez, Pelling; IV: Ethiopian Dance-Muilment, Leviez, Baudouin, Rector, Fromont; V: French Peasants-Poitier, Mlle Roland

Song: III: The Protestation-Beard

1324
13 December 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Dancing-Master

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: III: Faithful Lovers-Desse, Miss Oates; IV: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland Ynger

1325
29 May 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Pierots-Lalauze, Leviez; II: Muilment; III: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: IV: The Life of a Belle-Mrs Clive

Music: V: As17400517