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:
16 August 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Dec 1866, Evening
11 Dec 1866, Evening
12 Dec 1866, Evening
13 Dec 1866, Evening
14 Dec 1866, Evening
15 Dec 1866, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels; Billy [Minstrel dancer] Allen; Francis Leon; Sam Price [minstrel]; George N. Christy; Nelse Seymour

2)

Country relations

3)

City cars, The

Text Author: Leon

4)

Conductor, The

5)

Participants: Francis Leon

6)

Persecuted darkey

7)

Black statue, The

8)

African polka

aka Our African polka

Participants: Nelse Seymour

9)

Carnival of Venice, The, [dance, Black crook]

aka Carnival march

Participants: Francis Leon

10)

"Naughty, naughty girls, The"

aka Naughty girls

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 December 1866.

2)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 December 1866, 7.

3)

Review: New York Herald, 11 December 1866, 7.

“The very large audience which assembled at this popular place of entertainment last night was kept in continued good humor by the excellent entertainment provided. Laughable burlesques, comic dances, pleasing ballads, and dialogues racy with wit and humor followed each other in quick succession. The enjoyable burlesque of the Black Statue, and the operetta of Matrimony, in which Leon has an excellent opportunity to display his remarkable vocalization, were retained on the programme. Nelse Seymour, in the African Polka, was greeted with shouts of laughter, and the rendering of the Persecuted Darkey was brimful of broad humor and ludicrous situations. Leon’s Carnival De Venise [sic] was executed with his usual grace and agility. The remainder of the programme was equally well performed and heartily appreciated by the audience.”