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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE

DIGITAL TICKET LOTTERY
ANNOUNCED FOR
RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S
“OKLAHOMA!”

PREVIEWS BEGIN TOMORROW, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2019

New York, NY (March 18, 2019) – Producer Eva Price announced today that beginning on first preview, tomorrow, Tuesday, March 19, The Bard SummerScape production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, will launch a $40 digital lottery.

The Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! lottery is powered by Shubert Ticketing through the Telecharge Digital Lottery platform, which provides theatergoers wide access to affordable tickets through multiple social media networks. Available performances will be posted on www.OklahomaBroadwayLottery.com as early as 12:00 AM Eastern Time the day of the performance. Matinee lotteries close at 9:00 AM and evening lotteries close at 2:00 PM. Winners can purchase their tickets at www.OklahomaBroadwayLottery.com and will pick up their tickets at the Circle in the Square Theatre box office (1633 Broadway) with their credit card. Limit: 2 tickets per person.

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! plays Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre with performances beginning Tuesday, March 19, 2019 and an official opening on Sunday, April 7, 2019. It will play a limited engagement through Sunday, September 1, 2019.

Directed by Daniel Fish, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! comes to Broadway direct from a critically acclaimed, sold out run at St. Ann’s Warehouse this past fall. The cast stars Will Brill as Ali Hakim, Anthony Cason as Cord Elam, Damon Daunno as Curly McLain, James Davis as Will Parker, Gabrielle Hamilton as Lead Dancer, Rebecca Naomi Jones as Laurey Williams, Will Mann as Mike, Mallory Portnoy as Gertie Cummings, Ali Stroker as Ado Annie, Mitch Tebo as Andrew Carnes, two-time Tony Award-nominee Mary Testa as Aunt Eller and Patrick Vaill as Jud Fry.  The cast also includes: Chris Bannow, Demetia Hopkins-Greene, Sasha Hutchings, Denver Milord, Kristie Dale Sanders, Chelsea Lee Williams.

Tickets for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! are available on www.Telecharge.com, by calling 212 -239-6200 or 800-447-7400 or in person at the Circle in the Square Box Office.

The production has been hailed as a Critic’s Pick by The New York Times and the #1 Theatrical Event of the Year by TIME Magazine. The production has been cited on numerous Best of the Year lists including New York Times, Time Magazine, Time Out NY, New York Magazine’s Vulture, New Yorker, Buzzfeed, Newsday, NY Daily News and Theatermania.

Seventy-five years after Rodgers & Hammerstein reinvented the American musical, this is Oklahoma! as you’ve never seen or heard it before, re-orchestrated and reimagined for the 21st century.

The creative team for Oklahoma! includes: Daniel Kluger (Orchestrations, Arrangements & Music Supervision), John Heginbotham (Choreography), Nathan Koci (Music Direction), Laura Jellinek (Scenic Design), Terese Wadden (Costume Design), Scott Zielinski (Lighting Design), Drew Levy (Sound Design), and Joshua Thorson (Projection Design). Casting is by Will Cantler and Adam Caldwell/Telsey & Co.

Oklahoma! features music by Richard Rodgers, a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based on the play Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs with original choreography by Agnes de Mille.

Tickets for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! are available on www.Telecharge.com or by calling 212 -239-6200 or 800-447-7400.

This production was originally developed, produced, and premiered at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College (Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Chair; Leon Botstein, President; Gideon Lester, Artistic Director; Bob Bursey, Executive Director; Caleb Hammons, Senior Producer) in July 2015. This production of Oklahoma! was subsequently developed and produced by St. Ann’s Warehouse at the Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Theater, Brooklyn, NY, Fall 2018.

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! is produced by Eva Price, Level Forward, Abigail E. Disney, Barbara Manocherian & Carl Moellenberg, James L. Nederlander, David Mirvish, Mickey Liddell & Robert Ahrens, BSL Enterprises & MagicSpace Entertainment, Berlind Productions, The John Gore Organization, Cornice Productions, Bard Fisher/R. Gold, LAMF/J. Geller, T Narang/ZKM Media, The Routh/Franke/Baruch/Viertel Group, Araca/IPN, St. Ann’s Warehouse & Tamar Climan

A C C L A I M   F O R   O K L A H O M A !   O F F – B R O A D W A Y

“Thrilling, audacious, and delightful. This has always been a very American story but has never felt so much of one until now.”
-The New York Times

“Without sacrificing the show’s humor or the beauty of its music, Fish and his company have created a charged, scary production, a story about the aggressions and ambiguities entwined deep in the root system of America.”
-New York Magazine

 “Sexy, suspenseful and with a fresh, exuberant sound, this is an Oklahoma! to hoot and cheer and stomp your boots at!”
-New York Observer

“This vivid, stripped-down revival offers audiences a new vision of themselves.”
-The New Yorker 

“Daniel Fish gives a daring, brilliant, utterly absorbing re-interpretation. The production is played, extremely skillfully, for laughs and the very opposite of laughs.”
-The Daily Beast

“A powerful revival!”
-Time Out NY

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