Articles Tagged With: Hippodrome Theatre Baltimore

Season of WOW: An Interview with Ron Legler talking about the 2024/2025 Broadway Hippodrome Season

Interviews January 27, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

The sun’ll come out— TOMORROW! Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow— they’ll be— A Lion!?

Charm City is packing its Bromo-Seltzer Arts District with some of the hottest tickets in town for the 2024/2025 Hippodrome Broadway Series, powered by CareFirst. With not one but TWO National Tour launches, compliments of some hard-earned tax-credits now working in the state of Maryland (by way of Governor Wes Moore and the Maryland State Legislature), several shows direct from Broadway (or in some cases— still currently on Broadway) and a whole bunch of fun for everyone,

Nathan Lee Graham (center) and the company of the North American Tour of Hadestown 📷 T Charles Erickson

Hadestown at The Hippodrome

Reviews April 12, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

A song so beautiful it brings the world back into tune.

But’s a sad song.

It’s an old song.

And it is finally, finally here at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre!

The train on that long road to hell has arrived, bringing you the epic, Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown. With music, book, & lyrics by Anaïs Mitchell, this stylistically mesmerizing and wondrously refreshing take on an ancient Greek myth will dazzle and amaze,

"One Day More" from Les Misérables 📷 Matthew Murphy & Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade

Les Miserables at The Hippodrome Theatre

Reviews February 8, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

Do you hear the people sing? Do you hear the distant drums? It is the future that they bring when tomorrow comes! And tomorrow has finally arrived once again in Baltimore as the critically acclaimed national tour of Les Miserables arrives in Charm City, gracing the stage of The Hippodrome Theatre in The France-Merrick Performing Arts Center. The music is both iconic and memorable; the story is powerful and timeless. And this current national tour— a Cameron Mackintosh and NETWORKS presentation— is of the finest quality,

Season of Love & Laughter: A Talk with Ron Legler about the 23/24 Hippodrome Season

Interviews February 7, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

They are not throwing away their shot! After a spectacular come-back season, referred to by France-Merrick Performing Arts Center President Ron Legler as the “Season of Gratitude”— featuring such sensational shows as Hamilton, Jagged Little Pill, and Les Miserables— The Hippodrome Theatre has a whole new season lined up and it is spectacular! Including a Baltimore first— a pre-Broadway launch— as well as shows brand-new to the city,

Run And Tell That! An Interview with Hairspray’s Jamonté D. Bruten On Playing Seaweed

Interviews June 8, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Baltimore’s where it’s at! Now run and tell that! Making its iconic return to its ‘home’ city, Hairspray on the national tour is playing Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre just in time for summer. In a TheatreBloom interview, we’ve taken a call with Jamonté D. Bruten, playing Seaweed J. Stubbs, and gotten to talk about this uplifting, joyous musical and what it’s been like to be back on tour after a long-standing ‘pandemic hibernation.’

Thank you so much for giving us some of your time,

The Company of Pretty Woman: The Musical. 📸 Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade

Pretty Woman at The Hippodrome

Reviews April 6, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Tell me what’s your dream! I know you got one— if your dream is to see a magnificent Broadway show right in your back yard, well guess what, Baltimore? The Hippodrome is making that dream come true! Touring through for a one-week limited engagement, Pretty Woman, the musical based on the Touchstone Pictures motion picture from 1990, is a joyful, powerful, wondrous dream come true with all the hallmarks of a perfect screen-to-stage production.