Articles Tagged With: The Hippodrome Theatre

Maya Keleher (center) as Alice Paul in the First National Tour of Suffs 📷 Joan Marcus

Finishing The Fight: An Interview with Maya Keleher on leading the charge in the First National Tour of Suffs

Interviews May 18, 2026 Amanda N. Gunther

They’re merely soldiers in petty coats? Right? Think again, Mary Poppins, these are not your grandma’s suffragettes. I mean, technically, from a timestamp point they’re you’re grandma and maybe even your great-grandma’s suffragettes, but this is a whole new spin on the movement and after its critical success on Broadway, it’s currently touring its way across the nation as a part of the Broadway Across America series. What show? Suffs, of course!

The First National Tour of Back to the Future: The Musical 📷 McLeod9 Creative

Back to the Future at The Hippodrome

Reviews February 25, 2026 Amanda N. Gunther

Great Scott! 1.21 gigawatts!? Where are you going to get that kind of power in 2026!? At Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre, of course! Back to the Future: The Musical is proof positive that you can achieve anything if you just put your mind to it! Based on the film by Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale (book), Back to the Future (with music & lyrics by Alan Silvestri & Glen Ballard) is zooming at 88 miles per hour into Charm City— but for one week only!

The National tour of Chicago 📷 Jeremy Daniel

Chicago at The Hippodrome

Reviews June 4, 2025 Leonard Taube

author: Leonard Taube

In today’s crazy world, it’s no wonder that sometimes you just feel like you need to get away. No, not to someplace where everybody knows your name but, let’s face it, couldn’t we all use an excuse to rouge up our knees and roll our stockings down? Well, if that sounds appealing, I know a place where the gin is cold, and the piano is hot. The Kander/Ebb/Fosse musical Chicago roars into Baltimore this week at The Hippodrome in the heart of Charm City (Baltimore,

Devon Hadsell as Minnie in Some Like It Hot 📷 Matthew Murphy

Tonight The Heat Comes From Below: Let’s Be Bad with Devon Hadsell, playing Minnie in Some Like It Hot

Interviews April 28, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

Are you ready to be bad, Baltimore? Because the National touring production of Some Like It Hot is coming in hot and ready to shake up Charm City this May! In a quick phone interview with Devon Hadsell, playing Minnie on the tour, we get a full scope of why this show is so darn hot and fun!

Hello, Devon! Thank you so much for taking my call; we’re so excited to chat with you!

The Cast of The North American Tour of Shucked 📷 Matthew Murphy

Shucked at The Hippodrome

Reviews April 2, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

Folks say that things happen for a reason. I say Shucked happened for a reason. The great deities of musical theatre knew we were about to be living in the dark ages and the great deities of musical theatre knew we would need something whole-kernel-wholesome with literally a laugh-a-minute to lift us up out of the darkness and bring us into the radiant bright— cornfield!? Who in tarnation knew that we so desperately needed a musical— about CORN!?

Danielle Wade (left) as Maizy and Erick Pinnick (right) as Grandpa in the first National Tour of Shucked 📷 Matthew Murphy

Kernels of Comedy: An Earful from Shucked’s Erick Pinnick

Interviews March 26, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

Homegrown yuks getting cornier by the second! Must mean Shucked is coming to town! Checking in with Howard County native, Erick Pinnick, we do get a little earful about the poppin’ good time that is playing in the first National Tour of Shucked.

Thank you for giving us some of your time, Erick, it’s really exciting to get to talk to you!

Erick Pinnick: No problem.

Jake Odmark (left) as Beau and Danielle Wade (right) as Maizy in Shucked 📷Matthew Murphy

Kernels of Comedy: An Earful from Shucked’s Jake Odmark

Interviews March 24, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

Corn is so fantastic because it has a-maize-ing friends! There. I told my corn joke. And it popped! And if you need more of that corny humor, you’re in luck! Shucked is coming to Baltimore, landing at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre, and it’s bringing some local yokels with it! No joke and this isn’t an April Fools’ prank! We’ve had a phone-chat-interview with Jake Odmark, starring as Beau in Shucked, and we can’t wait to share it with you!

Phantom and Elephants and Gatsby, Oh My! Talking with Ron Legler on The Hippodrome’s 2025/2026 Season Featuring Three National Tour Launches

Interviews February 5, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

Just when you thought Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre couldn’t get any more exciting for the 2025/2026 season— after announcing that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera will be launching its National Tour right from the heart of Charm City in November of 2025— the whole rest of the season announcement has dropped and it’s a glitter bomb of spectacular proportions! Three National Tour launches— not one, not two, but THREE. Seven extraordinary shows;

Hazel Vogel (center) as Annie and the company of Annie 📷 Matthew Murphy

Annie at The Hippodrome

Reviews January 8, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

Everything’s humming now! Good times are coming now! It’— Annie! ANNIE! And Annie has returned to Charm City once more (after running their tech week at Baltimore’s illustrious Hippodrome Theatre back in November 2024 before heading out on their national touring circuit!) Annie marks the first Broadway Across America tour to grace the Hippodrome stage this 2025 calendar year and— leapin’ lizards! It’s genius! Charming and heartfelt and a perfect way to carry that holiday spirit well into the new year,

The Sun Will Come Out: Interviewing Baltimore’s Own Hazel Vogel as Annie

Interviews December 29, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

The sun’ll come out! TOMORROW! Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow— there’ll be— well, in Maryland, it could be sun, could be snow, could be 92° with a hailstorm because this is the state where the weather changes on a dime and without much sense or warning. But Towson native Hazel Vogel, currently starring in the titular role of Annie knows all about Maryland weather. And she’s hoping to bring the sunshine with her when the National Tour of Annie returns to her home state for the first full week in January of 2025.

Life of Pi at The Hippodrome Theatre Baltimore 📷 Evan Zimmerman

Life of Pi at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre

Reviews December 11, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

“Every soul is a piece of the Creator so every soul has a whisper of the divine within.” There were numerous quotes sprinkled liberally throughout last night’s production of Life Of Pi, that hit home, strike the heart, spark the mind, inspire the soul, and give theatergoers in Charm City a real chance to connect with a human story this holiday season. Making its national tour debut here at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre,

He’s Here: The Phantom of The Opera- A Quick Chat with Ron Legler about Phantom of The Opera’s 2025 National Tour Launching from Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre

Interviews November 14, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

Fondest Greetings, Good Monsieurs…did you think that I had left you for good?

We’ve been waiting. Since Sunday April 16th 2023…when Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera played its final performance at The Majestic Theatre on Broadway. After 35 years and 13,981 performances (marking it as the longest running musical in Broadway’ illustrious history), there was a darkness that overtook The Great White Way, though not without the promise of a return…and that return has finally arrived.

Moulin Rouge! at The Hippodrome

Reviews December 6, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

Hello, Chickens!!! Are you ready to experience the epicenter of your passions? The apogee of your desires? Of course you are, you radiant reprobates and rascals!

Truth

Beauty

Freedom

Love

They’ve got it all in Montmartre— it’s all there to titillate the senses, tease the mind, sway the heartstrings— it’s all there inside The Moulin Rouge! And Moulin Rouge has landed itself grandly at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre for a limited two-week engagement just in time for the holiday season.

Caroline Bowman as Elsa in Frozen. ???? Deenvan Meer

Frozen at The Hippodrome

Reviews June 9, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

Winter’s a good time to stay in and cuddle— but you’re going to have to LET IT GO. Because summer has arrived and with it blows the sparkly, dazzling, twinkly lights of Disney Broadway musical, blasting its way into Baltimore and ready to take Charm City by storm. We may not have seen any snow last winter, but fear now, with summer arriving— Frozen is here and ready to bring you all the snow you’ll ever need.

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,

Melanie Moore (left) as Scout and Jacqueline Williams (right) as Calpurnia ????Julieta Cervantes

To Kill a Mockingbird at The Hippodrome

Reviews March 15, 2023 Mark Briner

Sixty years ago Harper Lee penned what has become perhaps the quintessential American coming of age novel, the enduring and beloved staple of middle school American Literature curriculums To Kill a Mockingbird, which became in turn one of the most enduring and beloved movies of all time starring Gregory Peck, winner of the Academy Award for his endearing, human portrayal of antihero Atticus Finch trying to make a difference in the morality of the deep South.

"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,

Lauren Chanel and the company of The North American Tour of Jagged Little Pill. ????Matthew Murphy, Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade

Jagged Little Pill at The Hippodrome

Reviews December 14, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

And what it all boils down to, my friend, is that everything is just fine…fine…fine… ‘cause I got one hand in my pocket and the other one’s holding a Hippodrome Ticket! The iconic album that framed so many of my generation’s youth, Alanis Morissette’s ‘Jagged Little Pill’ is now a major stage musical. Jagged Little Pill, an odd but not unwelcome choice for the Christmas season, is now appearing at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre for a one-week,

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 National Touring Company of Ain't Too Proud. ????Emilio Madrid

Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations at The Hippodrome

Reviews May 4, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Music is the universal language that brings us all together. And you can feel the music rolling all through Charm City as The First National Tour of Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations rolls on up to Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre for a one-week stop. Featuring the music & lyrics of The Legendary Motown Catalog with book by Dominique Morisseau, this show goes above and beyond the battle-cry of your ‘standard jukebox musical.’ This is the true,

Ain’t Too Proud To Tell The Truth: An Interview with Elijah Ahmad Lewis on Playing David Ruffin

Interviews May 3, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Get ready! Cause he’s on his way! Get ready! Cause here he comes! And here he comes— Elijah Ahmad Lewis— in the role of David Ruffin currently on The National Tour of Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations. In a TheatreBloom exclusive interview, we were given an opportunity to have a phone conversation with the multi-award-winning singer/songwriter and Broadway performer to discuss his experience with The Temptations musical.

Season of Gratitude: A Chat With Ron Legler About the 2022/2023 Hippodrome Season

Interviews March 30, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Broadway is coming back to Baltimore! The France-Merrick Center for Performing Arts’ Hippodrome Theatre is once again alive with the sounds of music and laughter and live people! The 2022/2023 season is simply spectacular, to use the vernacular! In a TheatreBloom exclusive interview, we’ve had a phone conversation with President of the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center Ron Legler all about the new season and what’s exciting him the most about the nine shows— five of which are currently still on Broadway— that will be passing through Charm City starting in November of 2022.

Kyle Taylor Parker as Happy Man in Pretty Woman.

Forget Your Troubles Come On Get Happy: An Interview with Pretty Woman’s Happy Man- Kyle Taylor Parker

Interviews March 29, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Everybody needs a dream! For a great many of us, it was waking up to find that live theatre had returned after nearly two years in darkness, waiting and hoping and dreaming that we’d all be able to return to the stage with all the joy and wonder and feeling that entails. In a TheatreBloom exclusive interview, we’ve had a phone chat with Broadway veteran Kyle Taylor Parker about his current role in the National Touring production of Pretty Woman the musical.

Brittny Smith (center) as Diva Donna and the cast of Summer. Photo: Denise Trupe

Sizzlin’ Summer: Dynamic Diva Delivers Interview- Brittny Smith on playing ‘Diva Donna’

Interviews February 4, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

“To come back into live theatre, in the wake of this on-going pandemic, why not come to a party?” ~Brittny Smith on Summer: The Donna Summer Musical experience.

You’ve heard the songs. You know the name. Now go behind the scenes to see what it’s like to be Donna Summer. In a TheatreBloom exclusive, we’ve had the privilege to speak with Brittny Smith, playing ‘Diva Donna’ on the current national tour of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.

Keeping it Zazzy! An Interview with The Prom’s Emily Borromeo

Interviews January 18, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

“When a challenge lies ahead and you are filled with dread and worry— give it some Zazz!” the opening lines of the opening number of the second act of The Prom. Making its way to The Hippodrome Stage in Charm City, this joyous, heartfelt, and uplifting musical about living your best life and being true to yourself is ready to give audiences all over Baltimore some real Zazz. In a TheatreBloom exclusive interview,

Tootsie at The Hippodrome

Reviews December 1, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

Look out world! This show’s on a roll! It’s unstoppable! Tootsie the musical is crashing its way into Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre in the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center this holiday season, just in time to give everyone a little something different this December. Based on the 80’s film of the same name (from Columbia Pictures, staring Dustin Hoffman), this Tootsie is something strange and something new; it’s a fast-paced, high-octane story of the real-life struggles of actors,

Jisel Soleil Ayon (center) as Jenna in Waitress. Photo: Jeremy Daniel

Waitress at The Hippodrome

Reviews November 7, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

What’s inside? Everyone wants to know! It’s musical theatre at its finest; simple things like sugar, butter, flour now on stage in the form of the critically-acclaimed, award-winning production of Waitress. With book by Jessie Nelson (based upon the motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly) and music & lyrics by Sara Bareilles, this ‘slice of life’ musical chronicles the story of Jenna, a small-town diner waitress in a miserable marriage with an unexpected surprise on the way.

Talia Suskauer as Elphaba. Photo: Joan Marcus

Wicked at The Hippodrome

Reviews February 14, 2020 Amanda N. Gunther

Magic is a demanderating mistress! And who better to know
that than the witches of Oz! Yes, for one short day— well, several short days
(through March 8, 2020)— you too can see the Emerald City, and hear the
splendor, and experience the glory that is the Tony Award-winning musical Wicked
as it defies gravity and lands once more in Baltimore! Green with envy yet?
You will be if you don’t get your tickets and they’re red hot like ruby
slippers!

The North American Tour of Cats. Photo: Matthew Murphy

Cats at The Hippodrome

Reviews January 22, 2020 Amanda N. Gunther

Practical cats, dramatical cats, pragmatical cats, fanatical
cats! Oratorical cats, delphioracle cats, allegorical cats, metaphorical cats!
And then of course there’s the Jellicle Cat. What— you ask— is a Jellicle Cat?
Well…no better way to learn than to venture out in the moonlight to Baltimore’s
Hippodrome Theatre and see them live in action. Cats, the first show of
the 2020 calendar to land in Charm City will mesmerize you, enchant you, and
have you glowing with delight.