OKLAHOMA! - NWF State Summer Musical

Oklahoma!, one of the most popular musicals in Broadway history, will be presented July 15 – 18 as the 2015 summer musical production of the Humanities, Fine & Performing Arts Division of Northwest Florida State College.

The show will appear in the 1,650 seat mainstage theater of the Mattie Kelly Arts Center on the college’s Niceville campus and will feature original set and costume design along with a cast of talented regional actors.

Tickets for Oklahoma! are available through the center’s Box Office, by phone web or in-person. Call (850) 729-6000 Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 4:00 p.m. or purchase online through the center’s website. Tickets are $25 adult and $20 for youth age 18 and younger. If available, tickets will also be available at the door from 6:00 to 7:30 pm each night of the production. NWFSC students may request one free ticket per ID, space permitting, starting June 1. Student ticket requests must be made in person at the Box Office.

As the first musical written by the legendary team of composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, Oklahoma! was a box-office smash and ran for an unprecedented 2,212 performances on Broadway, later enjoying award-winning revivals, national tours, foreign productions and an Academy Award-winning 1955 film adaptation. Rodgers and Hammerstein won a special Pulitzer Prize for Oklahoma! in 1944.

The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in the Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams. A secondary romance concerns cowboy Will Parker and his flirtatious fiancée, Ado Annie.