Henry Pottinger Stephens
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Henry Pottinger Stephens, was an English dramatist and journalist.
Stephens caricatured in Punch, 1881
Sheet music to Stephens's Little Jack Sheppard
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
Henry Pottinger Stephens
…composer Edward Solomon. Stephens and Solomon wrote several comic operas together that briefly rivalled the Savoy Operas in popular esteem, including Billee Taylor (1880) and Claude Duval (1881). He also collaborated with Meyer Lutz at the Gaiety Theatre on burlesques including Little Jack Sheppard (1885). He…
Arnold Breedon as Billee
Alice Burville as Arabella
Librettist and composer caricatured in a Punch review of their opera Claude Duval