“Other than Hoover Dam, I don’t know of any project that has touched the community as broadly and deeply as this one will,” Smith Center Chairman Don Snyder said.
Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 | 1:21 a.m.
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- Smith Center exec Myron Martin
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At the very least, we know the opening performance at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts will merit a national TV audience.
The March 10 opener at Smith Center’s 2,055-seat Reynolds Hall will be recorded for a 2012 broadcast either on network TV or for a PBS special, I am reliably informed.
The act/show/artist has not been announced. But the producer of the televised performance is a giant in the film and TV industry: George Stevens Jr.
Stevens is the founder of the American Film Institute, and his TV work as a producer has garnered 11 Emmys, two Peabody Awards and eight Writers Guild of America Awards. His production of the film “The Thin Red Line” landed eight Academy Award nominations. Since the mid-1980s, Stevens has produced the telecasts “Kennedy Center Honors” and “Christmas in Washington” for CBS.
Stevens is the son of two-time Academy Award winner George Stevens, who won Best Director Oscars for “Giant” and “A Place in the Sun” and was nominated for that award for “Shane” and “The Diary of Anne Frank.” The production team for the Smith Center broadcast will be headed up by Stevens Jr. and his son, Michael Stevens.
As the opening of the arts-and-entertainment fortress nears, Smith Center Chairman of the Board Don Snyder and his wife, Dee, were the honorees at the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s annual “Diamonds Are Forever” gala Saturday night at the Four Seasons. The L.V. Phil departs UNLV’s Ham Hall after its season-ending “Masterworks III” performance Feb. 18 and debuts at Smith Center for “Masterworks IV” on March 24.
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