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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

Frank Sinatra made one of his first appearances with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra on this stage in 1939 - and after 14 dark years, the theatre came back from the dead to host Broadway. The Hippodrome Theatre, at 12 North Eutaw Street in downtown Baltimore, opened on 23 November 1914 and reopened on 10 February 2004 as the centrepiece of the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center. Designed by Thomas W. Lamb - the era's premier theatre architect - for impresarios Pearce and Scheck, the 3,000-seat ho...