ONE WEEKEND ONLY – FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD TO ROBINSON CENTER and experience THE WIZARD OF OZ like you never have before.

The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Philip Mann, Music Director and Conductor, presents the fourth concert in its 2013-2014 Acxiom Pops Live! Series: Wizard of Oz with Orchestra on March 8 at 8 p.m. and March 9 at 3 p.m. at the Robinson Center Music Hall.  Media sponsor for the Pops Live! Series is The Point 94.1.

The ASO will screen the entire classic film The Wizard of Oz while the lush score is performed by live symphonic orchestra. The ASO will perform the live score while the film itself is projected on the big screen. Audiences will hear and see Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Frank Morgan, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton as well as the rest of the cast from this classic film alongside Arkansas’ own Symphony Orchestra. The ASO will be playing Harold Arlen’s score live as the movie plays overhead.

Single tickets are $18, $34, $47 and $59; active military and student tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at www.ArkansasSymphony.org; at the Robinson Center box office 90 minutes prior to a concert; or by phone at 501-666-1761.  All Arkansas students grades K-12 are admitted to Sunday’s matinee free of charge with purchase of an adult ticket using Entergy Kids’ Ticket, downloadable at the ASO website.

When The Wizard of Oz was originally recorded in the late 1930s, it was a technical marvel for MGM. The orchestral score was recorded separately from the actors voices, giving Emmy-Award winning producer John Goberman (Live from Lincoln Center, A Symphonic Night at the Movies) the inspiration to create Oz with Orchestra, in which audiences will experience Harold Arlen’s lush, live orchestration backing the original 1939 studio recordings of Judy Garland, Roy Bolger and the rest of the characters singing the classic music from the film.

The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 48^th season in 2013-2014 under the leadership of Music Director Philip Mann. ASO is the resident orchestra of Robinson Center Music Hall, and performs more than thirty concerts each year for more than 42,000 people through its Stella Boyle Smith Masterworks Series, ACXIOM Pops LIVE! Series and Parker Lexus River Rhapsodies Chamber Series, in addition to serving central Arkansas through numerous community outreach programs and bringing live symphonic music education to over 24,000 school children and over 200 schools.