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:
2 July 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 May 1870, Evening
24 May 1870, Evening
25 May 1870, Evening
26 May 1870, Evening
27 May 1870, Evening
28 May 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels;  Rollin Howard;  James H. [minstrel song and dance] Cooper;  William [minstrel song and dance] Fields;  Edwin Kelly;  Johnny Hart;  C. R. [minstrel singer] Clinton;  Dave [minstrel] Wilson
2)
In and out of place
Text Author: Johnson
3)
"Gay young swell"
Composer(s): Howard
Text Author: Howard
4)
Al; my love and I
Text Author: Unknown playwright
5)
"Take me back home"
Composer(s): Hays
Participants:  Edwin Kelly
6)
"Nobody's darling"
Composer(s): Hays
Participants:  C. R. [minstrel singer] Clinton
7)
Double clog dance
aka Double clog reel; Double clog exercises
Participants:  James H. [minstrel song and dance] Cooper;  William [minstrel song and dance] Fields

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 May 1870, 8.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 23 May 1870, 10.

Brief. “Mr. Rollin Howard appears to-night at Kelly & Leon’s, and the programme is unexceptionable.”

3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 23 May 1870, 5.
4)
Announcement: New York Sun, 23 May 1870, 1.
5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 28 May 1870, 62.

“Kelly and Leon’s minstrels are attracting very good houses for this time of the year, the attendance on two occasions the past week being quite large. This week Rollin Howard, the popular burlesque prima donna, makes his appearance, having recovered from his late illness. Cooper and Fields, two excellent clog and song and dance performers, also join the forces this evening.”

6)
Review: New York Clipper, 04 June 1870, 70.

“…In the first part [of Al; my love and I], Mr. Kelly sang ‘Take Me Back Home’ very sweetly, and Mr. Clinton was heartily applauded for his rendering of ‘Nobody’s Darling’…In the olio Cooper and Fields did a clog and double song and dance, receiving an encore for each act.”