The Smith Center has revealed the eight productions that will comprise its 2023-2024 Broadway Las Vegas series, and it's a winning mix of Tony award-winners, revival classics and venerable family favorites, including Chicago, Beetlejuice and Conor McPherson's acclaimed Bob Dylan musical Girl From the North Country.
The season kicks off August 29 with Beetlejuice. The Broadway smash is among several productions making their Las Vegas debut this season. Like the beloved Tim Burton film, it tells the story of a recently deceased couple who enlist the help of a "professional" ghost to haunt their former home, though thanks to music and lyrics by Eddie Perfect, this time they'll do it in song.
The global phenomenon Les Misérables comes to the Reynolds Hall stage on September 12, followed by Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations on October 10. That 2018 jukebox musical, featuring music by the famous vocal group, tells the story of the Motowners' rise to fame, and the obstacles they met and bested on the way up.
Kander & Ebb/Bob Fosse musical Chicago returns big on January 16, with an anniversary production celebrating the 1996 revival that made Chicago the second-longest running show in Broadway history (just behind The Phantom of the Opera). Funny Girl, the iconic Fanny Brice musical with classic songs like “Don’t Rain on My Parade” and “People," follows on March 26.
On May 14, audiences are invited to Come From Away, written by Tony nominees Irene Sankoff and David Hein, and overseen by Tony award-winning director Christopher Ashley.
Just in time for summer comes Girl From the North Country, which follows the lives of a guest house proprietor and his family as they struggle through the Great Depression. The 2017 musical reimagines 20 Bob Dylan songs including “Forever Young,” "Like a Rolling Stone" and “Idiot Wind" with 1930s-styled instrumentation.
The season closes on June 18 with a new production of Peter Pan, directed by Emmy award-winner Lonny Price, featuring a revised book by distinguished Sicangu Lakota playwright Larissa FastHorse that addresses the nearly 70-year-old show's troubling portrayal of indigenous peoples while keeping beloved songs like "I Won't Grow Up."
For more information about the Broadway Las Vegas or to subscribe to the series, visit thesmithcenter.com.
