2018-19 Broadway Las Vegas season
A guide to The Smith Center’s complete 2018-19 Broadway Las Vegas lineup:
“School of Rock” — Andrew Lloyd Webber delivers 14 new songs to augment the tunes featured in the 2003 movie hit about how a wannabe rocker turned substitute teacher transforms his class into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping band. (Aug. 7-12)
“On Your Feet” — Get ready to conga with this jukebox musical, which follows Emilio and Gloria Estefan from Cuba to the U.S., tracing their quest for success on the pop charts — and their determination to return there after an auto accident almost wrecks their future. (Sept. 4-9)
“Waitress” — Adrienne Shelly’s 2007 indie hit inspires this musical adaptation, featuring a score by singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, about a plucky small-town waitress (and expert pie maker) who dreams her way out of a loveless marriage. (Oct. 9-14)
“The Lion King” — Disney’s sixtime Tony winner, powered by an Elton John score and director Julie Taymor’s imaginative staging, returns with its tale of lion prince Simba discovering his true identity — and power. (Nov. 7-25)
“Dear Evan Hansen” — A lonely, depressed high-school student inadvertently becomes a social media sensation in this six-time Tony winner featuring a score from “La La Land” Oscar winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. (Jan. 15-20, 2019)
“Come From Away” — Set during the week following the Sept. 11 attacks, this fact-based musical portrays the efforts of the residents of Gander, Newfoundland, to welcome, house and feed almost 7,000 stranded passengers whose planes were diverted there following the Sept. 11 attacks. (Feb. 19-24, 2019)
“Hello, Dolly!” — Betty Buckley (a Tony winner for “Cats”) takes over the starring role of sassy matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi, belting such classic Jerry Herman tunes as “Before the Parade Passes By,” in the national tour of the Tony-winning Broadway revival. (March 19-24, 2019)
“The Play That Goes Wrong” — Described as the illegitimate Broadway baby of Sherlock Holmes and Monty Python, this madcap murder mystery recounts the disastrous production of a 1920s stage thriller, missed cues, forgotten lines, collapsing sets and all. (April 18-24, 2019)
“Fiddler on the Roof” — Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher and team (“The King and I”) work their magic on Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s Broadway classic about the travails of Jewish milkman Tevye, his family and his neighbors in an early 20th-century Russian shtetl named Anatevka. (June 4-9, 2019)
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” — Roald Dahl’s beloved tale inspires a stage adaptation of the beloved 1971 movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” with a new score augmenting such favorites as “Pure Imagination” and “The Candy Man.” (June 18-30, 2019)
Current Broadway Las Vegas season subscribers may renew for the 201819 season now at thesmithcenter.com/ broadway, by telephone (702-749-2847) or at the box office at 361 Symphony Park Ave. Those interested in season subscriptions may register their interest at thesmithcenter. com/broadway; sales for new subscriptions will be announced this spring.