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A history of the Hippodrome
1914 Nov. 23 - The Hippodrome Theatre, designed by Thomas W. Lamb, opens with a vaudeville show featuring jugglers, comics and four elephants. The 3,000-seat theater, the city's largest, cost about $225,000. 1917 The Hippodrome becomes affiliated...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Indianapolis 500, John Waters, Hippodrome Theatre
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Our Mississippi
Tribune staff reporterYou'd think it would be easy to say where a river begins and ends. Just listen: The Mississippi rises in Minnesota's Lake Itasca and empties 2,350 miles to the south in the Gulf of Mexico. It sounds so authoritative, so final. But--and I've said this many...Tags: Festive Events, State Parks, Family, Joseph Smith, Jr., Movies
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'It took our minds off of the bad things'
Tribune arts criticThey are old men now, decades removed from the nightmare that was World War II. Yet when they think of that time, they don't linger on the suffering and the indignities they endured. Instead, they hear music -- the tunes of Glenn Miller and Duke...Tags: Family, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Teen-agers, California, World War II (1939-1945)
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State Theatre 2002-03 Season
Sept. 21: Regis Philbin with special guest Susan Lucci, 8 p.m. Tickets: $77.50, $72.50 Sept. 26-27: ''Rent,'' 8 p.m. Tickets: $49, $44 Oct. 3: George Jones, 8 p.m. Tickets: $42, $37 Oct. 5: ''The Scarlet Pimpernel,'' 8 p.m. Tickets: $49, $44 Oct. 10:...Tags: Susan Lucci, Ceremonies, Judy Collins, Broadway Theater, Dwight Yoakam
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Patriotic tunes of the past fill a void today
Tribune arts criticThe most popular songs in America these days -- the tunes that are on practically everyone's lips -- were not penned by rappers or rockers or heavy metal guitarists. Nor are they hawked in the record stores or downloaded eagerly off of the Internet....Tags: Celine Dion, Bob Hope, Broadway Theater, Immigration, Daniel Barenboim
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Jazz Boxed Sets: Lady Day Heads The List
The Hartford CourantListening to Billie Holiday, one of the most expressive, vulnerable and visceral vocalists of the 20th century, is much like falling in love. You just can't help yourself. Despite a self-destructive heroin addiction that led to her early death at age...Tags: Candy, Flowers and Gifts, Services and Shopping, Billie Holiday, Hank Jones, Tom Brokaw
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Singers turn to patriotic songs in wake of Sept. 11
South Florida Sun-Sentinel Pop Music WriterFour months after the telethon "A Tribute to Heroes," Americans staggered by the Sept. 11 attacks are still seeking comfort in song. Larry King now ends each nightly broadcast with music: Yolanda Adams sang "Never Give Up" in the CNN studio on Monday....Tags: ABC (tv network), Sociology, Terrorism, Music Theater, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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'Los Angeles Plays Itself'
Times Staff WriterIt is a remarkable work, quite likely the best documentary on the City of Angels ever made, but it's never had an extended run in Los Angeles — until now. It's played successfully in festivals worldwide, from Auckland to Thessaloniki, but unless you...Tags: Health, Cinema Industry, Documentary (genre), Movies, James Cagney
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'Hairspray' is Grammy's best of Broadway
Associated PressNEW YORK - Hairspray was the season's biggest musical hit on Broadway, and it's considered a favorite this year at the Tonys - but no matter what happens, the show already has a Grammy. Marc Shaiman, the musical's producer, provided the biggest laughs of...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Art Garfunkel, John Waters, Tito Puente, Broadway Theater
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Baltimore's new star makes a debut tonight
Sun Arts WriterWith its opening gala tonight, the $62 million France-Merrick Performing Arts Center isn't simply introducing the lovingly restored 1914 vaudeville palace at its center, the Hippodrome Theatre. It is also declaring its intention of making Baltimore once...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Jerry Lewis, Christopher Plummer, Hippodrome Theatre, Theater
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Red Hot With a Blue Note
Times Staff WriterNikita Khrushchev's eloquent 1950s critique of jazz pretty much summed up the status of that "bourgeois" music in the Soviet Union: He remarked that listening to it gave him gas. The early Russian jazz scene is most memorably explained by the night in...Tags: Festive Events, Dmitri Shostakovich, Soul (genre), Georgia, World War II (1939-1945)
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The promise of more good times
Sun StaffHipp hipp hipp hooray. With spotlights, orchids, champagne and more than a little nostagia, Baltimore last night celebrated the rebirth of its beloved 1914 vaudeville palace, the Hippodrome Theatre. A well-heeled crowd of more than 2,200 plunked down...Tags: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Arts and Culture, Hippodrome Theatre, Broadway Theater, Theater
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