Towson Alum Takes Hippodrome Stage In Alicia Keys' Broadway Musical

Towson University graduate Chris Miller is returning to Maryland to perform in the Broadway musical "Hell's Kitchen" at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre this month.

The musical features music and lyrics by 17-time Grammy winner Alicia Keys and a book by Kristoffer Diaz. Miller joined the production in October 2025.

Originally from Los Angeles, Miller was raised in Columbia, Maryland. According to The Towerlight, he started dance training at age 5 and attended multiple dance schools, including Debbie Allen Dance Academy, Dance Theatre of Harlem and The Ailey School.

Miller graduated from Towson in 2023 with a bachelor's degree in dance performance and choreography. He credited the university with teaching him not only how to be a dancer but also how to be a well-rounded person.

"One thing that the TU dance department did very well, aside from the training, is that every single professor in that department truly cared for the student body and treated us not only as artists, but saw us as human beings and truly cared about our lives outside of dance," Miller told Patch. "And I definitely think that contributed to my professional career and having balance of not just my entire identity being a dancer, but also just being a collective human and how that can translate within my professional career and can help to excel that even further."

The Baltimore engagement will be his second homecoming, as the show has already toured through his other hometown of Los Angeles.

"It is honestly just a complete blessing, and just to say that is even an understatement. Knowing that I'll come and make my second homecoming in Maryland to perform for friends and family who couldn't see my first homecoming in LA this past summer. They get to support me and get to see my dreams come to fruition," Miller said. "It's just such an amazing feeling, and I'm just so honored and grateful to come back full circle again at the Baltimore Hippodrome Theater, where I saw my first Broadway show, where my mom took me to see 'The Lion King' when I was 12 years old. And so getting to come back to that very theater 13 years later and perform on that very stage is just more than a notion. It's just more words than I can even describe right now."

Miller also said he looks forward to teaching while in the area.

"Hell's Kitchen" will run at the Hippodrome Theatre Nov. 17-22 before heading to Washington, DC, Nov. 24-Dec. 6. Tickets are on sale now.