THE SMITH CENTER Thank You Las Vegas
By Myron G. Martin, President and CEO, The Smith Center
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s we celebrate the return of live entertainment, The Smith Center is also celebrating our 10th anniversary. What was once called the dream in the desert is now an enduring and meaningful reality. As far as I am concerned, the reality is better than anything we dreamed possible. Nearly three million tickets have been sold since our opening, and we are especially proud that almost a million students have participated in our education outreach initiatives to date. I call this anniversary miraculous because a team of visionaries overcame daunting obstacles to make The Smith Center a reality more than twenty years ago. Truly a community effort, 80 | VEGASLEGALMAGAZINE.COM
this process included crucial support from generous donors and our city, county and state governments. Our stage lights, which were dark for nearly two years, are now lit again. The ghost light that kept our stage safe during the pandemic has returned to its typical role of only being rolled out after a show, and just long enough for the next production to begin. It got quite a workout during the pandemic- being lit for months and months in a row without ever being turned off. I am thrilled to see houses filled with enthusiastic theater goers, and I am humbled to see all of our stagehands, musicians, dancers and ushers returning to work.
