Event Information

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

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 June 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
17 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
18 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
19 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
20 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
21 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels
2)
Grecian bend
Text Author: Leon
Participants:  Francis Leon
3)
All-cantara
aka Alcantara
Participants:  Francis Leon
4)
"My father sold charcoal"
aka My father sould charcoal; Me father sould charcoal
Composer(s): Traditional
5)
Chinese fiddle, The
aka Original Chinese fiddle
6)
Smart boy
7)
McDoodle guard
8)
Chromotope
9)
Autumn changing to winter
10)
Orphée aux enfers, [burlesque]
aka Orphee aux enfers burlesque
Participants:  Francis Leon

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 November 1868.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 November 1868, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 21 November 1868, 263.
4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 21 November 1868, 262, 3d col., bottom.

A. L. Parkes, longtime business manager, severed his connection on the 11th and is now employed in the same capacity for the Worrell Sisters’ Theatre.