American Stage Musicals with Arab/Middle Eastern Themes

ABDALLAH, THE LAST MOORISH KING [cantata]

Alfred Gilbert

1886

Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co., London

ABON HASSAN

William Dimond

1833

New Orleans

AETHIOP*, or THE CHILD OF THE DESERT

Rayner Taylor,William Diamond

1814

G.F. Blake, Philadelphia

AFGAR

Chas. Cuvillier, Douglas Furher

1920

New York (8 NOV 1920)

AHMED

w. Mrs. Julia Dunne (W. Irving, "Pilgrim of Love")

1875

New York (30 MAR 1875)

AHMED AL KAMEL, or THE PILGRIM OF LOVE

C. E. Horn, Henry James Finn (W. Irving, "Pilgrim of Love")

1840

[Score lost]

ALADDIN

 

1868

New York (14 JAN 1868)

ALADDIN

Giuseppe Operti

1874

Boston: G. D. Russell

ALADDIN II

[Lydia Thompson]

1872

New York

ALADDIN THE SECOND   [= NOUVEL ALADDIN]

Florimund Ronger[=Herve], Alfred Thompson

1870

London (24 DEC 1870)

ALADDIN, JR.

W. H. Batchelor, Jesse Williams, J. Cheever Goodwin

1895

New York (8 APR 1895)

ALADDIN, or THE WONDERFUL LAMP

Charles Farley

1815

New York; London, 1813

ALADDIN, or THE WONDERFUL LAMP

Thomas Comer, S. S. Steele

1847

Boston: Prentice & Clark; Oliver Ditson

ALADIN [sic], or THE WONDERFUL LAMP

William Shield; John O'Keefe

1801

Philadelphia; London, 1788

ALGERIA

V. Herbert, Glen MacDonough

1908

Chas. K. Harris

ALGERIAN

R. de Koven, Glen MacDonough

1893

G. Schirmer

ALGERINE PIRATES, THE, or THE SPANISH LOVERS

 

1807

Boston

ALHAMBRA

(W.Irving, "Three Beautiful Princesses")

1873

 

ALI BA-BA, or THE FORTY BLACK SHEEP

C. T. West, Fred Edmonds

1901

London: J. Curwen & Sons, Ltd.

ALI BABA

Charles Lecocq

1887

Brussels

ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES

Otto Cesana, Eric Von der Goltz, jr.

1933

 

ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES

Bernice Eastman Johnston, Violet M. Thayer

 

[LC:M1995.J69.A5]

ALI BABA, or MORGIANA AND THE FORTY THIEVES

W. H. Batchelder, Harry B. Smith

1892

Cincinnati: John Church Co.

ALI PACHA

John Howard Payne

1923

New York

ALI PASCHA VON JANINA

Albert Lortzing

1824

 

ALI-POT-D'RHUM, ou UN TROUPIER AU SÉRAI

Firmin Bernicat, Céhem Gédhé

187-

Paris

ALLAH

H. Lawrence Freeman

1932-47

Opera in one act, part of Zululand, never performed

ALLAH BE PRAISED

Don Walker,George Marion, Jr.

1944

 

AMEER#, THE

V. Herbert, Frederic Ranken, Kirke LaShelle

1899

M. Witmark; New York (4 DEC 1899)

AMERICAN CAPTIVE var. THE SULTAN, THE

John Hodgkinson

1796

New York

AMERICAN CAPTIVE, or SIEGE OF TRIPOLI, THE

w. John Ellison

1811

Boston

AMERICAN NAVAL PILLAR see TARS FROM TRIPOLI

 

 

 

ARABESQUE

Ruth White Warfield, Cloyd Head, Eunice Tietjens

1925

New York, National Theatre

ARABIAN GIRL AND FORTY THIEVES (ALI BABA), AN

J. Cheever Goodwin; David Henderson, producer

1899

New York (29 APR 1899)

ARABIAN NIGHT, AN

Walter Rosemont, Darl MacBoyle

1918

Orpheus Music

ARABIAN NIGHTS

 

1887

 

ARABIAN NIGHTS

Carmen Lombardo, J. J. Loeb

1954

Shapiro, Bernstein Decca DL‑9013; DL‑5542

ARABIAN NIGHTS, or ALADDIN'S WONDERFUL LAMP

David Henderson, producer

1887

Chicago (12 SEPT 1887)

ARABS OF THE DESERT, or HARLEQUIN'S FLIGHT FROM EGYPT

Alexander Reinagle

1799

Philadelphia (13 APR 1799); Arabian Nights

AWAKENED RAMESES, THE

 

1911

Univ. of Michigan Show

BABA

Max Maretzek, Arnold & Sherwood

1876

New York (11 DEC 1876)

BARBE BLEUE

Jacques Offenbach

1868

New York (13 JUL 1868)

BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA, THE

 

1804

New York

BATTLE OF ALGIERS, THE

 

1818

New York (rep. 1830, 1831)

BEDOUINS, THE, OR ARABS OF THE DESERT

John Andrews Stevenson

180-

London

BEGUM

R. deKoven, Harry B. Smith

1887

 

BEY VON MAROCCO, DER

Victor Holländer, Jakob Bettelheim

1893

 

BLUE BEARD, or FEMALE CURIOSITY*

George Colman

1802

New York; London, 1798

BLUEBEARD, JR.

Fred Eustis, Richard Maddern, Clay M. Greene

1889

Chicago (11 JUN 1889); New York (13 JAN 1890)

BROADWAY TO TOKIO

R. DeKoven, A. Baldwin Sloane

1900

New York (23 JAN 1900)

CADI, THE

Bill Nye

1891

New York (21 SEPT 1891)

CADY OF BAGDAD, THE

Thomas Linley, Jr., A. Portal

1778

 

CAIRO (MECCA)

Percy Fletcher, Oscar Asche

1920

London: Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, Ltd.

CALIPH OF BAGDAD, THE

François Boïeldieu

1830

New Orleans ("Grand Asiatic Ballet of Action"); Paris, 1800-01

CALIPH, THE

Ludwig Englander, Harry B. Smith

1896

New York (3 SEPT 1896)

CAMEL DRIVER OF MECCA, THE

D.S. & E.L. Ireland, Charles H. Orr

1925

Columbus, Ohio

CAPTIVE, THE

Charles Dibdin, I. Bickerstaffe

1769

London (21 JUNE 1769)

CARAVAN OF CAIRO

m. Andre E.M. Gretry;

1795

Charleston

CARAVAN, THE, or THE DRIVER AND HIS DOG

William Reeve, Frederick Reynolds

1810

Philadelphia; London, 1803

CARAVANE DU CAIRE

w. E. Morel de Chedeville

1783

Fontainebleu

CHAINS OF THE HEART, or THE SLAVE BY CHOICE

Prince Hoare, Joseph Mazzinghi

1804

New York, London (9 DEC 1801)

CHILDREN OF CYPRUS

(Winter Garden)

1865

 

CHILDREN OF CYPRUS

(Barnum's New American Museum)

1865

 

CHIN‑CHIN

 

1914

(Aladdin updated)

CHOW CHOW, A TALE OF PEKIN

m. W. H. Brinkworth, w. James Barnes

1872

New York (9 SEPT 1872)

CHRIS AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP

m. John Philip Sousa, w. Glen MacDonough

1899

(Aladdin in N.England Boarding School) (1 JAN 1900)

CHU CHIN CHOW

Oscar Asche

1914

London

CRISS-CROSS

Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach, Anne Caldwell

1925

New York

DAUGHTER OF THE DESERT, THE

Otto Harbach [Hauerbach], Karl Hoschna

1902

[never produced]

DAY IN TURKEY, A

Joseph Mazzinghi

1791

London (3 DEC 1791)

DEMON OF THE DESERT, THE

[George L. Fox]

1850

New York

DESERET, or THE SAINT'S DIFFICULTIES

Dudley Buck, W. A. Croffut

1880

New York (11 OCT 1880) [Mormon as sultan]

DESERT OF MAHOMET, THE

Charles Gilpin

1910

Philadelphia: UPenn student show

DESERT SONG, THE

S. Romberg, Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein

1926

 

DÉSERT, ODE SYMPHONIQUE, LE

Félicien David

1844

Paris

DEUX OMAR, LE

Firmin Bernicat

1876

 

DREAM WITH MUSIC

Clay Warnick, Edward Eager

1944

New York (18 MAY 1944)

DUO DE LA AFRICANA, EL

Fenández Caballero

 

 

DWANGEE, THE ARAB

(Barnum's New American Museum)

1865

(24 DEC‑30 DEC 1865)

EGYPTIAN FESTIVAL

w. Lege

1796

Philadelphia

EL HYDER

William Barrymore

1828

New Orleans ("Grand Asiatic Melodrama”)

ENCHANTER, THE, or LOVE AND MAGIC

J. C. Smith, D. Garrick

1760

London (DL 13 DEC 1760)

EXPLORERS, THE

Walter H. Lewis, Bert L. Taylor

1901

Chicago, Dearborn Theater, 30 JUN 1901)

FAIRY OF THE WELL, THE

 

 

 

FALL OF ALGIERS, THE

H. R. Bishop, J. H. Payne

1825

London; Philadelphia, 1827

FANTINITZA

F. Von Suppe, F. Zell, R. Genee

1879

 

FIELDS' REAL NEGRO MINSTRELS AND TROUPE OF ARABS

Al G. Fields

1895

Columbus, OH, based troupe

FLAHOOLEY

Sammy Fain, E.Y. Harburg

1951

 

FLIRTING PRINCESS, THE

Adams, Hough, Howard, Orlob

1909

Chicago (1 NOV 1909)

FORTY THIEVES

Comer

 

[Board of Music Trade Catalogue]

FORTY THIEVES, THE

[Lydia Thompson]

1869

New York (1 FEB 1869)

FORTY THIEVES, THE, or STRIKING OIL IN FAMILY JARS

Michael Connelly

1869

 

FORTY THIEVES, THE, or THE FEMALE DUELIST

Michael Kelly, George Colman

1807

Charleston; London, 1806;  New York, 1808 [Sheridan's FORTY THIEVES]

FRIVOLITIES OF 1920

 

1920

New York (8 JAN 1920)

FROM BALTIMORE TO TURKEY

Joe Bright, prod.

1924

Black touring production

GEEZER OF GECK, THE

Paul Schindler, Robert Adam

1905

Chicago (24 AUG 1905)

GENIE, THE, or THE ARABIAN NIGHTS

 

 

 

GENII, THE, or HARLEQUIN'S VAGARIES

John Durang

1788

New York [Henry Woodward,

GLI ARABI NELLE GALLIE

Giovanni Pacini, Romanelli

1833

New York (18 NOV 1833) J.M. Eliot,

GRAND VIZIER, THE

 

1895

{Sequel to TABASCO}

HARLEQUIN FISHERMAN

 

 

ENTERTAINMENT, London, 1752

HIS HIGHNESS THE BEY

Will M. Hough, Frank R. Adams, Joe Howard

1904

Chicago (21 NOV 1904)

HORRORS, or THE MARAJAH OF ZOGOBAD (PRINCE ACHMET)

 

1879

New York (28 MAY 1879)

IN A PERSIAN GARDEN#

Liza Lehmann

1896

Metzler & Co. [Rubaiyat]

IN KHORASSAN

Harry S. Cyphers, Malcolm Maclure

1910

Newark, NJ

IN THE PASHA'S GARDEN

Seymour

 

 

IRISHMAN IN BAGHDAD

 

1856

{Harvard Theatre Collection}

JACK IN DISTRESS see PREPARATIONS...

 

1796

Newport. RI

JEWEL OF ASIA

L. Englander, F. Rankin

1903

New York (16 FEB 1903)

JOSEPHINE SOLD BY HER SISTERS

Victor Roger

1886

New York (30 AUG 1886 [parody of Méhul's Joseph

JUSTICE, or THE CALIPH AND THE COBBLER

C.E. Horn, John Saville Faucit

1820

London

KATINKA

R. Friml

1916

Schirmer

KHEDIVE, THE

 

1891

New York (27 OCT 1891)

KISMET

m. Gustave Kerker, w. Richard F. Carroll

1895

New York (12 AUG 1895)

KISMET

Oscar Asche

1911

E. Knoblock,"Hajj's Hour"

KISMET see TIMBUKTU!

Robert Wright, George Forrest

1953

[Borodin]

LALLA ROOKH

David

 

[Board of Music Trade Catalogue]

LALLA ROOKH (cantata)

Frederic Clay, W. G. Wills

1877

London: Chappell

LALLA ROOKH, or THE CASHMERIAN MINSTREL (opera)

C.E. Horn, M. J. Sullivan (after T. Moore)

1818

Dublin

LALLA ROOKH, or THE PEARL OF INDIA

Joseph Foster

1872

 

LIEDER DES MIRZA SCHAFFY, DIE

Louis Roth

1887

 

LITTLE SIMPLICITY

Augustus Barratt, Rida Johnson Young

1918

New York (4 NOV 1918)

LOVIN' SAM FROM ALABAM'

Rufus Greenlee, Thaddeus Drayton

1920s

Touring show   (Cf. Ager and Yellin song)

MAGIC RING, THE

Harold Levey, Zelda Sears

1923

New York (1 OCT 1923) [orig. Minnie and Me]

MAHMOUD

S. Storace, M. Kelly

1796

London [no libetto pub.]

MAHMOUD THE ROBBER, or AMERICANS IN TRIPOLI

 

1804

Charleston

MAID AND THE MUMMY, THE

Robin Hood Bowers, Richard Carle

1904

New York (25 JUL 1904); Witmark

MAMELUK, DER

Ludwig Schytte

1903

 

MECCA

Oscar Asche

1917

New York, 1920

MOROCCO BOUND*

F. Osmond Carr, Adrian Ross

1893

London: Jos. Williams

MOUTH OF THE NILE, THE, or THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF AUGUST [1798]

Thomas Atwood, Thomas J.Dibdin

1799

New York

MY DARLIN' AIDA

G. Verdi; Chas. Friedman

1952

 

NADIR AND ZULEIKA

C.E. Horn

1832

New York

NAVAL PILLAR, or THE AMERICAN SAILOR'S GARLAND; AMERICAN TARS TRIUMPHANT see TARS FROM TRIPOLI

John Moorehead, Thomas Dibdin

1800

Philadelphia

NINTH STATUE THE or THE PALACE OF FIRE AND WATER   [= THE IRISHMAN IN BAGDAD]

C.E. Horn/ Hewitt

1817

New York [1001 Nights] DL, 29 Nov 1814 London

OH MY, OMAR

James Thruber

1919

Ohio State Student Production

OOLAH

Charles Lecocq

1889

New York [=La Jolie Persane, 1879]

ORIENTAL AMERICA?

John W. Isham

1896

New York [1st all-black musical on B'way]

ORIENTAL SERENADERS?

Buster Lee, Elmira Washington

1924

Touring revue

PANJANDRUM[Vocal Gems]#

Woolson Morse, J. Cheever Goodwin

1893

T. B. Harms & Co.

PARADISE OF MAHOMET, THE

R. Planquette, Louis Ganne; Harry B. Smith

1911

New York, 17 JAN 1911; Paris, 1906

PEARL OF BAGDAD*

John M. Loretz, Jr.

1872

rev. text 1884; overture pub.*

PERSIAN GARDEN, A

Anatol Friedland, E.A. Woolf

1912

 

PERSIAN HUNTERS, or THE ROSE OF GURGISTAN

C.E. Horn; Thos. Noble, G. Perry

1817

London, 13 AUG 1817

PERSIAN PRINCESS*, THE

Sidney Jones, Percy Greenbank

1909

Keith, Prowse & Co. Ltd.,London

POMME DE TURQUIE, LA

Pauline Thys-Sébault

1857

Paris

PREPARATIONS FOR A CRUISE AGAINST THE TRIPOLITANIANS

 

1796

Newport, RI

PRINZESSIN VOM NIL, DIE

Victor Holländer

1915

 

RAINMAKER OF SYRIA [not MidEast] , THE

Leo Fall, Rudolph Aronson, Sydney Rosenfeld

1893

New York

RÉNÉGAT DE TANGER, LA

Victor Massé

1845

Paris (unpublished?)

REVELS

J. J. McNally

1880

New York (25 OCT 1880)

ROSE OF ALGERIA, THE

Victor Herbert

1909

 

ROSE OF PERSIA, THE

A. Sullivan; Basil Hood

1900

Pearl/Gem 120, side 6,#3, 1974

ROSE OF STAMBOUL, THE

S. Romberg, Leo Fall, H. Atteridge

1922

[Vienna, 1916]

SADAK AND KALASRADA

 

1862

(Barnum's American Museum)

SAHARA DERBY, THE

Henry Sullivan, T. H. McKnight, S.J. Flanigan

1923

Dartmouth [College] Players

SAID PASHA

m. Richard Stahl, w. Scott Marble

1889

New York (25 FEB 1889)

SARATSIN [THE SARACEN]

César Cui

1899

(14 NOV 1899)

SARDANAPOLOUS

Giuseppe Operti, Chas. Calvert

1876

[after Byron] (14 AUG 1876)

SELIMA AND AZORE, or THE POWER OF ENCHANTMENT

w. J. F. Marmontel m. A. Gretry

1776

London (5 DEC 1776) New York (1 JUN 1787)

SERAGLIO, THE

Charles Dibdin, E. Thompson

1776

Philadelphia (19 MAY 1794)

SESOSTRA

Leon Pavi, Henri Hirschmann

1912

New York (5 MAR 1912), spoof of SUMURUN

SHEIK OF HARLEM, THE

Irwin C. Miller, Donald Heywood

1923-24

Lafayette Theatre, Harlem

SHEIKH STEPS OUT, THE

 

1937

 

SIEGE OF ALGIERS, THE

Jonathan S. Smith

1823

Philadelphia

SIEGE OF TRIPOLI, or VALOUR TRIUMPHANT, THE

 

1822

New York {ballet d'action}

SIN(D)BAD THE SAILOR

Michael Connelly, Henry B. Farnie

1869

 

SINBAD

[Lydia Thompson]

1868

New York, Niblo's

SINBAD

[Louise Montague]

1892

New York (27 JUN 1892)

SINBAD

S. Romberg

1918

 

SLAVE IN ARABY, A

Alfred J. Silver, S. Guise

1931

London, J. Curwen

SLAVE OF BAGDAD

 

 

[Board of Music Trade Catalogue]

SLAVES IN ALGIERS, or A STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM; A STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY

Alexander Reinagle, Susannah Rowson

1794

Philadelphia

SOLIMAN SECOND [SOLIMEN II, OU LES TROIS SULTANES]

Gibert, Charles Simon Fravart

1761

 

SPHINX, THE

Charles Dibdin

1797

London {M1508 Case}

SPHINX, THE

 

1895

Boston; New York (8 JUL 1895)

SULTAN OF MOCHA, THE

Alfred Cellier

1880

New York (14 SEPT 1880); London, 16 NOV 1874

SULTAN OF SULU#, THE

Alfred G. Wathall, George Ade

1902

M. Witmark  [Philippines, not Middle East]

SULTAN, THE, or A PEEP INTO THE SERAGLIO

James Hook, I. Bickerstaffe

1783

S.A. & P. Thompson, London, 1775

SULTAN, THE, or PEEP INTO THE SERAGLIO; THE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE; AMERICAN CAPTIVE; ROXALANA; FEMALE CAPTIVE

Charles Dibdin, Isaac Bickerstaff

1794

New York [no vocal score extant]

SULTAN, THE, or SOLYMAN AND ZAYDE

Thomas A. Arne

1758

 

SUMURUN

Victor Hollaender, Friedrich Freska

1912

NY premiere of German show (16 JAN  1912),  Max Reinhardt directing; LC has score.

TABASCO

m. George Chadwick, w. R. A. Barnet

1894

New York {see GRAND VIZIER}

TAR AND THE TARTAR, THE

Adam Itzel, Jr., Harry B. Smith

1891

Chicago (15 APR 1891), New York  (11 MAY 1891)

TARS FROM TRIPOLI, or A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THE MEDITERRANEAN HEROES; OUR GALLANT NAVY

James Hewitt, H. Carnock

1806

New York adapted from NAVAL PILLAR

TATOOED MAN, THE

V. Herbert, Harry B. Smith

1907

New York (18 FEB 1907)

THALABA THE DESTROYER

Robert Southey

1833

New York (13 MAY 1833)

THREE HUNCHBACKS, THE

 

1870

New York (22 MAY 1870) [Arabian Nights setting]

TIMBUKTU! rev. KISMET [set in Mali]

Wright, Forrest, Borodin

1978

 

TRIP TO AFRICA, A*

F. von Suppé

1883

U.S. production (23 SEPT 1884)

TRIP TO ARABY, A

Matt Housely, prod.

1927

Black touring show

TWO CADIS*, THE

Julius Eichberg

1868

 

TWO CALIPHS, THE

William Reeve, Charles Dibdin, Jr.

17--

London: Button & Whitaker

UMPIRE*, THE

Joe Howard

1905

Chicago (2 DEC 1905)

UNE NUIT DE CLÉOPÂTRE

Victor Massé

1885

Paris (25 APR 1885)

VETERAN TAR [THE TRIPOLITAN TAR, THE, or AMERICAN TARS ON AN ENGLISH SHORE; AMERICAN TARS TRIUMPHANT; TRIPOLITAN PRIZE

S. Arnold, A. Reinagle, Samuel Arnold

1802

New York

WIZARD OF THE NILE, THE

V. Herbert, Harry B. Smith

1895

New York (4 NOV 1895)

YOUNG TURK, THE

Max Hoffman

1910

New York (31 JAN 1910)

ZAÏDA

Wilhelm Meyer-Lutz

1868

 

ZANINA, or THE ROVER OF CAMBAYE

Genee's NISIDA

1881

New York (17 JAN 1881)

ZULEIKA, or THE SULTAN ENCHANTED

Jacque Barzun

1928

Columbia U. Varsity Show

 

 
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