The Smith Center

We've spent lots of time and paper (money and tickets) at an outstanding new venue.  It's the Smith Center and opened in early March.  In fact, the grand opening gala will be featured on PBS sometime in the next year.  It was a star studded event featuring Jennifer Hudson amongst many others.  This place is what our city needed and the response to it and their events has been overwhelming.  I know my husband and I joke about our biweekly trip to it.  We've had fun seeing many shows including The Color Purple, Yo Yo Ma, The Pink Floyd Experience, Good Night Gracie, Million Dollar Quartet, Nevada Ballet Theater's Gala, and Mary Poppins.  Here's their website if you'd like to check it out, www.thesmithcenter.com.  We are Broadway Series subscribers and look forward to next season already.  We still have Memphis to see next month.  We are making a night of it and finding new restaurants (to us, anyway) in the downtown area.  So far we've enjoyed Le Thai, Lola's Kitchen, Mundo, Main Street Station's Brew Pub, and Dona Maria's.  Maybe we'll drop into Triple George before Memphis.