Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Kelly and Leon's Minstrels Hall (720 Broadway)

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Mar 1867, Evening
19 Mar 1867, Evening
20 Mar 1867, Evening
21 Mar 1867, Evening
22 Mar 1867, Evening
23 Mar 1867, Evening

Program Details

Kelly and Leon's Minstrels ballet troupe is the "Madagascar Ballet Troupe."

Program included songs performed by Kelly, Seymour, and Allen.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels; Kelly and Leon's Minstrels, ballet troupe; Nelse Seymour; Johnny Allen [minstrel/variety]; Francis Leon; Edwin Kelly; Sam Price [minstrel]; John F. Oberist

2)

Black crook, The, [burlesque]

3)

Participants: Kelly and Leon's Minstrels, ballet troupe

4)

Uncle Simperson

aka Uncle Sim-Person; Uncle Simp

5)

aka Susey Brown; Susie Brown; Susey Browne; Susy Browne; Susie Browne; Miss Susie Brown

6)

aka Dora darling

Text Author: Kelly

7)

Editor’s troubles, An

aka Editor's items

8)

Patti in Paris

9)

Macbeth, [burlesque (unknown playwright)]

Text Author: Unknown playwright

10)

aka Cinder-le-on

11)

Water nymphs, The

aka Water nymph

12)

Stop that laughing

13)

aka Grand agony

14)

Triple clog dance

15)

16)

Participants: Sam Price [minstrel]

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 March 1867.

Performers, works.

2)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 March 1867.

3)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 23 March 1867, 398.

“Two new ballads will be sung by Mr. Kelly in the first part, and Seymour and Allen have got two good end songs.”

4)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 23 March 1867, 399.

Performers. “Sixtieth night of the unapproachable burlesque scenes of the Black Crook. MACBETH!! MR. CAWDOR, MR. GLAMIS, The WITCHES."

5)

Review: New York Clipper, 30 March 1867.

“There appears to be no ebb in the tide of popularity which nightly flocks to see and hear Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels. With a first class minstrel entertainment the visitors seem to never tire of listening to the melodies; comic or pathetic, of Seymour, Allen, Kelly, and Oberist. The songs of the Tyrol are received on each repetition with hearty applause. As often as we have seen ‘Macbeth’ murdered in regular theatres, this company takes them all down on their version of it, as they do it up on the half shell. The burlesque of ‘Cinderella’ brings forth as much laughter as ever. The afterpiece of ‘Stop that Laughing’ is a capital thing and keeps the audience roaring with laughter. Sam Price’s ‘Salli Hinkli’ is huge.”