The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, also known as the Smith Performing Arts Center, located in Downtown Las Vegas

Downtown Las Vegas

Downtown Las Vegas is the central business district of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the original gambling district of Las Vegas, prior to the Strip, and the area still incorporates downtown gaming.-Tourism:...

 Nevada

Nevada

Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

's Symphony Park

Symphony Park

Symphony Park, originally called Union Park, and formerly known as Parkway Center, is an under construction mixed-use urban community located in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. The city of Las Vegas is undertaking the development of a parcel located on brownfield land purchased from Union Pacific...

 is a 4.75 acre (1.9 ha) theater facility consisting of three theaters in two buildings. Groundbreaking for the $470 million project was May 26, 2009. The design style is Art Deco, reflecting that of the nearby Hoover Dam and features a 17 story bell tower. The building will be the first arts center in the nation to be LEED certified. It is scheduled to open in March of 2012.

The Smith Center will feature international music, and dance companies, and will be the main center of the Las Vegas Philharmonic

Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra

The Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra is a symphony orchestra serving the Las Vegas metropolitan area. It was founded on July 4, 1998 by Harold Weller and Susan and Andrew Tompkins. The current music director and conductor is David Itkin. The orchestra's current venue is Artemus W. Ham Hall on the...

 and Nevada Ballet Theatre.

Facilities

• 46 bell
  Bell (instrument)
  A bell is a simple sound-making device. The bell is a percussion instrument and an idiophone. Its form is usually a hollow, cup-shaped object, which resonates upon being struck...
  
   carillon
  Carillon
  A carillon is a musical instrument that is typically housed in a free-standing bell tower, or the belfry of a church or other municipal building. The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze, cup-shaped bells, which are played serially to play a melody, or sounded together to play a chord...
  
  
• 2,050-seat main theater
• 300-seat cabaret
  Cabaret
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   style theater
• 200-seat rehearsal theater

2012 Broadway Las Vegas Series

- The Color Purple

The Color Purple (musical)

The Color Purple is a Broadway musical based upon the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker. It features music and lyrics written by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, with a book by Marsha Norman. It ran on Broadway in 2005 and has been touring throughout the US...

: April 3-8, 2012

- Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins (musical)

Mary Poppins is a Walt Disney Theatrical musical based on the similarly titled series of children's books by P. L. Travers and the Disney 1964 film. The West End production opened in December 2004 and received two Olivier Awards, one for Best Actress in a Musical and the other for Best Theatre...

: May 22-27, 2012

- Million Dollar Quartet

Million Dollar Quartet (musical)

Million Dollar Quartet is a jukebox musical written by Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott. It dramatizes the Million Dollar Quartet recording session of December 4, 1956, among early Rock and roll stars Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, and newcomer Jerry Lee Lewis...

: June 12-17, 2012

- Memphis: A New Musical

Memphis (Musical)

Memphis is a musical by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro . It is loosely based on Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s...

: July 18-22, 2012
On January 14, 2011, Myron Martin, CEO of the Smith Center, said in an interview with KXNT that the Smith Center's opening season will include, "Four of the biggest Broadway shows there are, including last year's Tony Award winner." The winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Musical

Tony Award for Best Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949. This award is presented to the producers of the musical.-1940s:* 1949: Kiss Me, Kate – Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Samuel and Bella Spewack...

 was Memphis: A New Musical

Memphis (Musical)

Memphis is a musical by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro . It is loosely based on Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s...

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2012-2013 Broadway Las Vegas Season

- Wicked the Musical

Wicked (musical)

Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West , a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard...

: August 29-October 7, 2012
On September 12, 2010, the Smith Center for the Performing Arts announced that their first show in the 2012-2013 Broadway season will be Wicked the Musical

Wicked (musical)

Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West , a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard...

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