It moves us allâ through despair and hope, through faith and loveâ and Disneyâs The Lion King has found its place on the path unwindingâ right here in Charm City at Baltimoreâs very own Hippodrome Theatre! The mighty tale of the circle of life returns to Baltimore once more and is the joyful uplifting theatrical experience that everyone in the world needs right now. Directed by Julie Taymor with Choreography by Garth Fagan,
Just when you thought Baltimoreâs Hippodrome Theatre couldnât get any more exciting for the 2025/2026 seasonâ after announcing that Andrew Lloyd Webberâs The Phantom of the Opera will be launching its National Tour right from the heart of Charm City in November of 2025â the whole rest of the season announcement has dropped and itâs a glitter bomb of spectacular proportions! Three National Tour launchesâ not one, not two, but THREE. Seven extraordinary shows;
Everythingâs humming now! Good times are coming now! Itââ Annie! ANNIE! And Annie has returned to Charm City once more (after running their tech week at Baltimoreâs 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 andâ leapinâ lizards! Itâs genius! Charming and heartfelt and a perfect way to carry that holiday spirit well into the new year,
The sunâll come out! TOMORROW! Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrowâ thereâll beâ 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 sheâs 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.
âEvery soul is a piece of the Creator so every soul has a whisper of the divine within.â There were numerous quotes sprinkled liberally throughout last nightâs 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 Baltimoreâs Hippodrome Theatre,
Fondest Greetings, Good MonsieursâŚdid you think that I had left you for good?
Weâve been waiting. Since Sunday April 16th 2023âŚwhen Andrew Lloyd Webberâs 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 Broadwayâ illustrious history), there was a darkness that overtook The Great White Way, though not without the promise of a returnâŚand that return has finally arrived.
It was Mr. Green! In the billiards room! With the dagger! Cue elaborate explanationâ holdâ drop lightsâ âThatâs not how it really happened. Because we know who actually did it!â REWIND! RESET! GO! It was Clue! At The Hippodrome! With a stage show! Murder, mystery, mayhem, a manor andâ six!? SIX DEAD BODIES!? Thatâs a lot of bodies piling up on the floor! Or in the lounge! Or wherever theyâre piling up!
Whodunnit!? Hippodrome Theatre at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center that’s who!! They’ve got CLUE coming the first full week in May! And you won’t want to miss your chance to see this comic thriller in action!
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“Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night theyâll never forget! 
Don’t miss Clue on Tour at the Hippodrome Theatre May 7-12. Get tickets to the ultimate whodunnit inspired by the classic Hasbro board game.
econd star to the right and straight on tilâ viral video ballroom waltzing? Shut the fort door, since when does Peter Pan have Wendy being obsessed with going viral so that she can help pay for her medical school training because she wants to grow up and be a surgeon?
~*~*~*ANGRY TINKLING & CHIMING NOISES*~*~*~
What was that, Tinker Bell? In the newly refurbished national tour launch production thatâs leaping into the air with lovely thoughts straight out of Baltimoreâs Hippodrome Theatre?
Wanted: Heart-warming, feel-good, fun-loving musical to fill the aching hole in the hearts of Baltimore after Sundayâs devastating upset at Ravenâs stadium.
Helloooooo, Poppets!
Mrs. Doubtfire is exactly what this city needs to wake up, feel good, laugh and cry a little, and be made whole again! Coming in hot off the boards of Broadway, Rob McClure and the sensational singing, rapping, hip-hop-happening Scottish nanny is hear to take Charm City by hilarious and heartfelt storm.
The sunâll come outâ TOMORROW! Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrowâ theyâll beâ 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 casesâ still currently on Broadway) and a whole bunch of fun for everyone,
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
Theyâve got it all in Montmartreâ itâs all there to titillate the senses, tease the mind, sway the heartstringsâ itâs all there inside The Moulin Rouge! And Moulin Rouge has landed itself grandly at Baltimoreâs Hippodrome Theatre for a limited two-week engagement just in time for the holiday season.
Everybody look around! Because thereâs a reason to rejoice and shoutâ everybody come on down! You owe it to yourself to check it out! Canât you feel a brand new day? That brand new day has come! Charm City has the hottest ticket in town with the Broadway-bound production of The Wiz. Directed by Schele Williams, with Musical Supervision & Orchestration by Joseph Joubert, and Choreography by Jaquel Knight, the book (by William F.
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.
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 tourâ a Cameron Mackintosh and NETWORKS presentationâ is of the finest quality,
Tina Turner is arguably the most inspirational story in the history of rock and roll. Small town country girl with a big voice becomes part of a rock and roll institution. But success seemed stacked against her between an emotionally abusive mother and the most physically abusive husband this side of OJ Simpson, as she flees everything at the height of her career to start over with nothing, making perhaps the grandest comeback in rock and roll history.
âGet in, loser. Weâre goingâ to Baltimore!â You guessed itâ Mean Girls, the iconic high-school movie-turned-stage-musical is on the road and itâs stopping Charm City at Baltimoreâs Hippodrome Theatre this summer. TheatreBloom has had the exclusive privilege of sitting down and chatting with Nadina Hassan, playing the one, the only, the Queen of the Plasticsâ Regina George. She actually took a phone call with usâ thatâs so fetch!!!
Thank you so much for giving us some of your time today,
Baltimoreâs where itâs at! Now run and tell that! Making its iconic return to its âhomeâ city, Hairspray on the national tour is playing Baltimoreâs Hippodrome Theatre just in time for summer. In a TheatreBloom interview, weâve taken a call with JamontĂŠ D. Bruten, playing Seaweed J. Stubbs, and gotten to talk about this uplifting, joyous musical and what itâs been like to be back on tour after a long-standing âpandemic hibernation.â
Thank you so much for giving us some of your time,
Tell me whatâs your dream! I know you got oneâ 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.
Broadway is coming back to Baltimore! The France-Merrick Center for Performing Artsâ 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, weâve had a phone conversation with President of the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center Ron Legler all about the new season and whatâs exciting him the most about the nine showsâ five of which are currently still on Broadwayâ that will be passing through Charm City starting in November of 2022.
Look out world! This showâs on a roll! Itâs unstoppable! Tootsie the musical is crashing its way into Baltimoreâs 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 80âs film of the same name (from Columbia Pictures, staring Dustin Hoffman), this Tootsie is something strange and something new; itâs a fast-paced, high-octane story of the real-life struggles of actors,
Magic is a demanderating mistress! And who better to know
that than the witches of Oz! Yes, for one short dayâ well, several short days
(through March 8, 2020)â 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 donât get your tickets and theyâre red hot like ruby
slippers!
Practical cats, dramatical cats, pragmatical cats, fanatical
cats! Oratorical cats, delphioracle cats, allegorical cats, metaphorical cats!
And then of course thereâs the Jellicle Cat. Whatâ you askâ is a Jellicle Cat?
WellâŚno better way to learn than to venture out in the moonlight to Baltimoreâs
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.
Strip away myth from the man and you get a strangely vexing
yet utterly intriguing new-age production of Andrew Lloyd Webberâs Jesus
Christ Superstar. Now appearing, albeit unseasonably, at The Hippodrome
Theatre in the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center, this original rock opera,
the first of its kind back in 1970 is now celebrating its 50th
Anniversary Tour. Directed by Timothy Sheader with Choreography by Drew McOnie,
the production is a post-apocalyptic amalgamation of its rock musical concert
roots and modernity that burble caustically in some spots but gel smoothly in
others.
Gotta keepâ one jump, ahead of the box-office line! One
swingâ ahead of the rest! Disneyâs got a show that truly tops the rest! So make
wayâ for Disneyâs Aladdin! Make wayâ for Disneyâs Aladdin! Coasting
in on a magic carpet just in time for the holidays this highly adventurous, memorably
Disney stage show brings you a cave of wonders and them some when it comes to
theatrical spectacle.
Itâs hereâ The Phantom of the Opera! Well, almost! In
just a few short weeks, the newly imagined National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber
& Cameron Mackintoshâs critically acclaimed musical success will be landing
in Charm City for just two short weeks! The Phantom of The Opera comes
to Baltimoreâs Hippodrome Theatre from October 6, 2019 through October 20, 2019;
the spell-binding masterpiece still has tickets available for sale! TheatreBloom
has sat down with SarahGrace Mariani,