The Smith Center for the Performing Arts’ 2026-27 Broadway Las Vegas Series has everything. It has elves. It has robots. It has musicians performing in Spanish; we know you love those. All it doesn't have is Mary Todd Lincoln—although, remarkably, she’s available as an add-on.
Announced by Smith Center president Myron Martin and actor-writer-musician-Sirius XM host Seth Rudetsky in a special February 9 presentation at Reynolds Hall, the 2026-27 Broadway Las Vegas Series is packed with beloved favorites and current smash hits that share 26 Tony Awards, 18 Drama Desk Awards and 14 Outer Critics Circle Awards between them. It begins September 15 with Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s 1994 adaptation of its hit 1991 film, featuring all its acclaimed songs and a few extras. It’s the first time Beast has toured in more than 20+ years, and it begins the series on a strong family note.
Another nocturnal creature follows closely on its heels. The Phantom of the Opera comes to Reynolds Hall on October 21, returning Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masked antihero to Vegas after a long absence. And remember, the version of the show that played at the Venetian from 2006 to 2012 was an abbreviated one, without an intermission. This will be the full-on haunted opera house experience, from “The Music of the Night” to “All I Ask of You.”
Oh, Mary!, the non-musical, Cole Escola-penned smash hit that places Mary Todd Lincoln in an absurd, semi-historical farce, is a major get for the Smith, even if it’s not strictly a part of the series. (“It’s … not for everyone,” Martin admitted sheepishly, though Rudetsky was quick to add “it’s hilarious” and everyone should see it.) It plays from October 6-11, and season ticket holders get first crack at the chance to watch the show from their own seats. But Rudetsky’s right: Everyone should try to see Oh, Mary!, which, unlike many touring shows that come to the Smith, is still playing on Broadway.
Elf The Musical, the family-friendly 2010 adaptation of the 2003 holiday perennial that seemingly plays on television 24 hours a day from Thanksgiving to Christmas, sleighs its way into town on November 24, and it’ll be a nice, tuneful change of pace from the admittedly fun Will Ferrell gift we unwrap every year.
After the holiday break, it’s one banger after another. The Outsiders, the 2024 Tony Award-winner of Best Musical, brings its celebrated songs and unique choreography to the Smith on January 19; hopefully, we can all stay gold until then. Buena Vista Social Club bows on March 2, the five-time Tony Award-winner that will transform Symphony Park into Havana for a week. And Boop! The Musical, based on the classic Grim Natwick cartoon character, boop-boop-be-doops on stage May 11, and should be worth seeing just for its use of light and color.
Finally, on June 8, the 2025 Best Musical Tony Award-winner Maybe Happy Ending comes to Smith Center, fulfilling Martin’s promise to bring as many award-winning musicals as possible to Reynolds Hall. (Like Oh, Mary!, it, too, is still playing on Broadway.) The story of two helper robots who experience an all-too-human connection on a road trip, Hue Park and Will Aronson’s show made its debut in Seoul, South Korea, making it quite unlike anything that’s come to the Smith so far.
For more information or to renew a series membership, visit TheSmithCenter.com/Broadway.
