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Thursday, April 12, 2007
New York's Fabled Hippodrome
In 1905 the Hippodrome Theatre opened in New York City with the gala musical revue, "A Yankee Circus on Mars."
And here is the great Irish tenor John McCormack, on 28th April, 1918, singing, again without amplification, to the packed Hippodrome Theatre in New York. He would sing there something like ten times a season.

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