The Smith Center for the Performing Arts has proven to be an unmitigated success – period.  The cabaret is fun, the speakers are fantastic, and the touring theatrical companies that come for weeks at a time are top-drawer.  It’s truly a venue for the post-millennial age in which we Las Vegans find ourselves.

Now that the first year has come and gone, with performers ranging from Lily Tomlin to Christine Ebersole to Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo; and productions including Memphis the Musical, Wicked, and Mary Poppins – it’s time for the powers that be to really spread their collective wings and see just how far this baby can soar.

Over the next few posts will be seven shows (in descending order) that I’d pay good money to see, at the Smith Center.  Some are realistic, some not so much, and some quite improbable; but all would be wonderful to see on stage; Downtown, in beautiful Symphony Park.

7.  THE PEE WEE HERMAN SHOW – In 2010, Paul Reubens resurrected The Pee Wee Herman Show (that he’d created in the early ‘80s) for month-long engagement at Club Nokia @ LA Live in Los Angeles, and later that year at the Steven Sondheim Theatre in New York – with an extra performance recorded for HBO.  The thought of getting the whole Pee Wee gang on the main stage at Reynolds Hall, just makes me want to put on my cha-cha heels and dance to the “Tequila” song, while crying “I know you are, but what am I?”

Next time – acts 6 (an artsy Brit who doesn’t tour), 5 (a living legend of the American Theatre), and 4 (a performance troupe that harkens to another era).  See ya, then!

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