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:
30 July 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Dec 1867, Evening
31 Dec 1867, Evening
01 Jan 1868, Evening
01 Jan 1868, 2:30 PM
02 Jan 1868, Evening
03 Jan 1868, Evening
04 Jan 1868, Evening
04 Jan 1868, 2:30 PM

Program Details

Includes “Santa Claus and his Holiday Gifts.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels;  Nelse Seymour;  Sam S. [Ethiopian comedian] Purdy;  John P. Hogan [minstrel];  Ruey Hughes;  Sam Price [minstrel];  George [tenor] Percival;  Rollin Howard;  George W. Howard Griffin
2)
Opera mad
3)
Aeronauts
4)
Peter Piper, the man about town
aka Peter Pipes
Text Author: Bowers
5)
Darkies in ecstasy
aka Gay darkeys; Gay darkies
6)
Four pedals
7)
Cheap gas
8)
Purdiana

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 December 1867.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 01 January 1868, 8.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 02 January 1868, 8.
4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 04 January 1868, 310, 3d col., top.
5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 11 January 1868, 318.

(brief) Notes “regular matinees Saturday afternoon 2½ o’clock”