New York Hippodrome
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The Hippodrome Theatre, also called the New York Hippodrome, was a theater located on Sixth Avenue between West 43rd and West 44th Streets in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City
The Hippodrome in 1907, on a hand-tinted postcard
The interior of the Hippodrome
The Hippodrome Building, built in 1951–52, at 1120 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), designed by Kahn & Jacobs
Harry Houdini and Jennie the elephant performing at the Hippodrome
Jumbo (musical)
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Jumbo is a musical produced by Billy Rose, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and book by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.
New York Hippodrome
…dominant real estate and construction company of the time, and was acquired by The Shubert Organization in 1909. It became the stage for Billy Rose's Jumbo in 1935. Acts which appeared at the Hippodrome included numerous circuses, musical revues, Harry Houdini's disappearing elephant, vaudeville, religious…
Original 1935 Program