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:
6 February 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Apr 1870, Evening
12 Apr 1870, Evening
13 Apr 1870, Evening
14 Apr 1870, Evening
15 Apr 1870, Evening
16 Apr 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels; Add Ryman; Johnny Hart

2)

Ching chow hi

3)

Judicial curiosities; or, The mysteries of the cancan

4)

Fooling with the wrong man

5)

Fashionable Kate of Broadway

Participants: Francis Leon

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 April 1870, 5.

2)

Announcement: New York Herald, 11 April 1870, 5.

“‘Ching Chow Hi,’ Offenbach’s opera, will be withdrawn from Kelly & Leon’s Minstrels after this week, to give place to the new burlesque, ‘Frow Frowh.’”

3)

Announcement: New York Sun, 11 April 1870, 2.

Brief.

4)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 16 April 1870, 14.