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:
9 November 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Feb 1867, Evening
05 Feb 1867, Evening
06 Feb 1867, Evening
07 Feb 1867, Evening
08 Feb 1867, Evening
09 Feb 1867, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Cinder-le-on

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 February 1867.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 06 February 1867, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 09 February 1867, p. 350, 2d col., middle.
4)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 09 February 1867, 351.
5)
Review: New York Herald, 09 February 1867, 8.

“No. 720 Broadway seems to be as great an attraction as the nearly similar number in Uncle Sam’s Treasury notes, and hundreds of coupons are collected nightly at Kelly & Leon’s charming little hall.  Every evening during the present week the hall has been crowded, and that too by a very select class of people.  It is not often one meets such a number of ladies congregated in a minstrel hall; but the efforts of the management and troupe to elevate the minstrel profession to a refined standard have crowded the house night after night with crinolines and waterfalls of the most approved fashion.  At 9:30—another cabalistic number in their dark répertoire—the demon dance of dusky coryphées commences, and the terminating agony of the fairy of the silver spoon and the usual red fire and tableaux too numerous to mention are received with applause by the numerous patrons of the hall.  The variety part of the programme is also very interesting, well selected and well performed.”