Billee Taylor
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Billee Taylor, or The Reward of Virtue is "a nautical comedy opera" composed by Edward Solomon, with a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens. The satiric, cynical risqué story is based on the nautical
Arnold Breedon as Billee
Alice Burville as Arabella
Librettist and composer caricatured in a Punch review of their opera Claude Duval
Marion Hood
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Marion Hood was an English soprano who performed in opera and musical theatre in the last decades of the 19th century. She is perhaps best remembered for creating the role of Mabel in Gilbert and Sull
Billee Taylor
…sides of the Atlantic and enjoyed many revivals both in Britain and in the United States. Early revivals included The Gaiety Theatre, London (1885, with Marion Hood as Phoebe and Arthur Roberts as Barnacle) and Toole's Theatre (1886). On Broadway it was revived at the Casino Theatre in 1885 with a cast that included…
Marion Hood
Hood as Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance
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