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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

Kansas City celebrated its hundredth birthday with a locomotive crossing a half-finished stage; the theatre it christened never stopped. Starlight Theatre at 4600 Starlight Road in Swope Park opened on 3 June 1950 with Thrills of a Century, a civic pageant that restaged the Battle of Westport and rolled the original Hannibal Bridge locomotive across specially built rails while construction crews finished the seats. The idea was decades older - the Kansas City Federation of Music Clubs proposed ...