‘Lion King’ is a roaring success at Hippodrome
Ticket sales for the 14-week run of The Lion King that ended Sunday at the Hippodrome Theatre totaled more than $15 million, and the show was seen by nearly 230,000...
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Hippodrome’s first hurrahs
As it marks the one-year anniversary of its opening, the renovated Hippodrome Theatre has been a hit in most respects, but an under-performer in some others. During its first year,...
Big shows coming to new venue
Long runs of two long-awaited shows - Baltimore's first engagement of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera and the Mid-Atlantic premiere of Disney's The Lion King - will...
Actress takes heavy duty in stride
A lot of overweight teens dream of losing weight and becoming stars. Nineteen-year-old Carly Jibson is rapidly achieving stardom - with the added bonus of being encouraged to keep her...
A debut at home
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UM law program turns ‘Hairspray’ into a playbook
Lawyers and musical comedy might not seem to have much in common, but the University of Maryland School of Law is linking the two in a program that uses the...
A new part, a brush with fame
Aja Maria Johnson makes her Broadway debut Saturday in Hairspray. A month ago, the 12-year-old Baltimorean had never been to a Broadway show. Aja - who is dropping her last...
Cinderella of Baltimore
NEW YORK - The elements all are there: A ball gown, a lost glass object, even a fairy godfather. Most of all, this real-life fairy tale has, at its center,...
‘Producers’ will be new theater’s first play
Oriole Park at Camden Yards Hairspray, Sept. 9-21, Mechanic. Adapted from John Waters' 1988 movie, the musical focuses on a rotund, socially conscious Bawlamer teen named Tracy Turnblad, who wins...
Baltimore's ambassador in 'Hairspray'
First things first: The name is pronounced "DU-wayne." Actor Eric Anthony - the only bona fide Baltimore native in the cast of Hairspray, the hit Broadway musical set in 1960s...