Arena Stage's OKLAHOMA! Breaks Company Records

Arena Stage's Summer Revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, which has been rumored to transfer to Broadway, is already breaking company records, including record set by original run of Oklahoma! Last Friday March 4, 2011 tickets were released for Arena Stage's summer revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! through a 24-hour sale featuring a limited amount of special $50 tickets. On this day, the revival broke the company record for Highest Single Ticket Sales for a Single Production in a 24 Hour Period bringing in 3,294 tickets. This surpassed the previous record, which was set November 2, 2010 when 1,644 tickets were sold to the original run of Oklahoma!

Oklahoma! returns to Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater's Fichandler Stage July 8-October 2, 2011, and will feature most of the same cast from the original production.

Tickets for Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! are $61-106 plus applicable fees, subject to change based on availability. Discount tickets are available for students and groups. The Family Fun Pack
offers four seats for a minimum of two patrons between the ages of 5 and 18 years per Fun Pack for $125, plus applicable fees. HOTTIX, a limited number of half-price, day-of-performance tickets, are available 90 minutes before curtain prior to every performance. With Metro Mondays, patrons who present a SmarTrip or Metro card can purchase half-price tickets for the week's performances after noon on Mondays while supplies last. Tickets may be purchased online at
www.arenastage.org, by phone at 202-488-3300.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is a national center dedicated to the production, presentation, development and study of American theater. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Molly Smith and Managing Director Edgar Dobie, Arena Stage is the largest company in the country dedicated to American plays and playwrights. Arena Stage produces huge plays of all that is passionate, exuberant, profound, deep and dangerous in the American spirit, and presents diverse and ground-breaking work from some of the best artists around the country. Arena Stage is committed to commissioning and developing new plays through the American Voices New Play Institute. Now in its sixth decade, Arena Stage serves a diverse annual audience of about 300,000. www.arenastage.org.