These ‘Boots’ made for walking, right onto Smith Center’s stage

Myron Martin, president and CEO of the Smith Center for the Performing Arts, is shown during the Smith Center President's Reception at 361 Symphony Park Ave. in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Martin was wearing the fancy footwear as part of the announcement of the lineup of Broadway shows for the center's next season, one of which is the musical "Kinky Boots." (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Smith Center President Myron Martin kicked up his heels Tuesday evening — in a pair of red, sequined, spike-heeled, thigh-high boots — to announce the center’s 2014-15 Broadway Las Vegas series, led by “Kinky Boots.”

The Tony-winning musical will launch its national tour in September at The Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall.

“Getting to launch a national tour of a great show” represents a coup for the downtown performing arts complex, Martin said after announcing the season during a reception for Smith Center patrons on the center’s Reynolds Hall stage.

“I don’t know how you drag queens do this,” Martin joked to guests after strutting to center stage in his fabulous footwear. “I’ll never be able to get serious with you guys ever again.”

But seriously, folks, the coming attractions — including a Tony-winning revival of “Pippin” and the return of “Wicked,” both featuring scores by Oscar-winner Stephen Schwartz — add up to “a great big beautiful Broadway season,” Martin said.

Other family-friendly shows range from a touring version of “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella” (still playing on Broadway) to productions of old favorites “Annie” and “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.”

Rounding out the 2014-15 season: Disney’s Tony-winning “Newsies” and another screen-to-stage adaptation, “Ghost the Musical,” along with “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” a Tony-winning pastiche of 1920s musicals loosely based on George and Ira Gershwin’s 1926 romp “Oh, Kay!”

The Smith Center, which will celebrate its second anniversary in March, already has hosted 865 performances, Martin told patrons. And the Broadway Las Vegas series — which has about 16,000 seats available for each show’s average run — has 12,000 season ticket holders.

Also, more than 100,000 Clark County students have attended Smith Center performances so far, he said.

“Long before we opened, we dreamt really, really big,” Martin said. “But the reality of what has happened in the first two years is better than any dream we ever had.”

And the dreaming hasn’t stopped.

In April, The Smith Center will host its first world premiere: a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” from Rio headliner Teller, to be staged in a tent in Symphony Park, adjacent to the performing arts complex.

Rehearsals began Tuesday, making Teller “hysterical with delight,” he said before he and co-director Aaron Posner told Smith Center patrons about the production, which features music by Tom Waits and movement by the Pilobolus dance company.

“Shakespeare? Yes!” Teller said. “We’re so proud and grateful to you guys. This is what Vegas should be doing.”