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86 results for: Keyword - Hadgee Mahomet Sadee
We found 51 matches on Performance Title, 32 matches on Performance Comments, 22 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1
06 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Mahomet-Bensley; Zaphna-Wroughton; Alcanor-Gardner, first time; Pharon-Hull; Mirvan-Perry; Ali-Fox; Palmira-Miss Hamilton, first appearance that stage.
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: End: The Corsican Sailor's Punch House, as17710412

2
27 April 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet The Impostor

Performance Comment: Mahomet-Palmer; Mirvan-Barrymore; Ali-Caulfield; Zaphna-Kemble; Alcanor-Bensley; Pharon-Packer; Palmyra (1st time [in London])-Mrs Siddons.
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Edgar and Emmeline

Entertainment: Monologues. End: an Occasional Address-Mrs Siddons; Afterpiece to conclude with: the original Epilogue-Mrs Siddons

3
13 October 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Mahomet (1st time)-Pope; Alcanor-Murray; Pharon-Macready; Mirvan-Toms; Ali-Davenport; Ammon-Lee; Hercides-Cranfield; Citizens-Blurton, Abbot, Wilde, Thompson; Zaphna-Hargrave; Palmira-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Allingham]).Miss Allingham]).
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Wicklow Mountains

4
21 January 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of his Excellency Hadgee Mahomet Sadee, Ambassador from the Dey of Algiers. Receipts: #48 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer

5
25 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet The Imposter

Performance Comment: Zaphna-Garrick; Mahomet-Delane; Alcanor-Giffard; Mirvan-Bridges; Pharon-Winstone; Hercides-; Ammon-; Palmira-Mrs Giffard; Prologue-Havard; Epilogue-Garrick [from edition of 1744, but listed in the same order as list of actors in General Advertiser, except General Advertiser adds Turbutt after Winstone].from edition of 1744, but listed in the same order as list of actors in General Advertiser, except General Advertiser adds Turbutt after Winstone].
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Delane

6
24 November 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Zaphna-Garrick; Mahomet-Delane; Alcanor-Giffard; Mirvan-Bridges; Pharon-Winstone; Ali-Green; Palmira-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Delane

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Song: Lowe

Dance: Muilment

7
06 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

Performance Comment: Demetrius-Garrick; Mahomet-Barry; Cali Bassa-Berry; Abdalla-Havard; Mustapha-Sowdon; Leontius-Blakes; Hasan-Usher; Aspasia-Mrs Cibber; Irene-Mrs Pritchard; Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Barry

8
09 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Author (Cross). Places for Boxes to be taken of Hobson at the stage door. Tickets to be had of Mr Miller, in the strand; Mr Dodsley in Pall Mall; at the Half-Moon Tavern, near Holborn Bars, and of Mr Hobson. Just Publish'd Mahomet and Palmira. A Tragedy as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, by a Gentleman of Wadham College. [This would seem to be James Miller's Mahomet, with the printer capitalizing on Johnson's production at dl.] Receipts: #175 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

9
25 November 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Parts by: Powell, Bensley, Cautherly, Lee, Bransby, Strange, Mrs Palmer. Alcanor-Powell; Zaphna-Cautherly; Mahomet-Bensley; Pharon-Lee; Palmira-Mrs Palmer (Genest. V, 88); the 1765 edn. adds Ali-Strange; Mirvan-Bransby; Ammon-Raftor; Hercides-Keen.
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: End: Dutch Dance, as17651120

10
26 November 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Alcanor-Powell; Mahomet-Bensley; Zaphna-Cautherley; Pharon-Packer; Mirvan-Aickin; Hali-Strange; Palmira-Mrs Palmer.
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Cunning Man

11
08 December 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Alcanor-Powell; Mahomet-Bensley; Pharon-Hull; Zaphna-Smith, 1st time; Mirvan-Perry; Ali-Davis; Palmira-Mrs Yates, 1st time.
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End: A New Comic Dance, as17671021

12
24 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Alcanor-Powell; Mahomet-Bensley; Pharon-Hull; Zaphna-a Young Gentleman being his 1st appearance; Mirvan-Perry; Ali-Davis; Palmira-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

13
06 April 1771 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Alcanor-Fleetwood; Mahomet-a Gentleman; Zaphna-a young Gentleman, his first appearance on any stage; Palmira-Miss Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: a Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: IV: A Dutch Dance-two children, scholars of Daigville; End Play: An Allemande-

14
01 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Alcanor-Ross, 1st time; Zaphna-Savigny, 1st time; Mahomet-Bensley; Pharon-Hull; Mirvan-Gardner; Ali-Davis; Palmira-Mrs Yates (playbill).
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

15
19 April 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Alcanor-A Young Gentleman, first appearance; Mirvan-Bransby; Hali-Whitfield; Hersides-Norris; Zaphna-Brereton; Pharon-Packer; Mahomet-Bensley; Palmira-Miss Younge, first time.
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End: The Savage Hunters, as17751118

16
11 November 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Zaphna-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance on this, and 2nd [recte 3rd] on any stage); Mahomet-Palmer; Pharon-Packer; Mirvan-Hurst; Ali-Chaplin; Alcanor-Bensley; Palmira-Mrs Robinson.
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

17
08 November 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Zaphna-Bannister Jun.; Mahomet-Palmer; Pharon-Packer; Mirvan-Hurst; Ali-Chaplin; Alcanor-Bensley; Palmira-Mrs Robinson.
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

18
04 April 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Alcanor-Wroughton (1st appearance in that character); Mahomet-Aickin; Pharon-Hull; Mirvan-Fearon; Ali-Gardner; Zaphna-Holman (1st appearance in that character); Palmira-Miss Brunton (1st appearance in that character [in London]) .in London]) .
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: AS 12 Nov. I785

19
04 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Alcanor-Farren (1st appearance in that character); Mahomet-Aickin; Pharon-Hull; Mirvan-Fearon; Ali-Gardner; Zaphna-Holman; Palmira-Miss Brunton.
Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: Omai

20
27 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Author's Night. The Author labouring under a severe and dangerous illness, hopes his friends will excuse his personal Application, and send for tickets to Mr Watts, at the Printing Office in Wild Court; or to Hobson at the Stage door of the theatre at Drury Lane Mahomet translated from the French of Voltaire; but I have no great opinion of the subject, or the original author as a poet; and my diffidence is rather improved by the testimony of those who have seen it.-Letters of William Shenstone, p. 89

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

21
26 November 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

22
28 November 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

23
02 December 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

24
04 December 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

25
10 December 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Cast
Role: Mahomet Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion