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Arkansans Prepare for Hannah Montana Concert

posted 8:48 pm Fri November 30, 2007 - North Little Rock

tags: hannah • montana • scalping • concert

As many Arkansans prepare for Saturday's Hannah Montana concert, the Attorney General's Office continues to investigate what they call the illegal scalping of the concert tickets.

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Thousands of Hannah Montana tickets sold out in just minutes prompting the Arkansas attorney general's office to investigate.

Friday afternoon this arena will be full of thousands of Hannah Montana fans but while they enjoy the concert, the Attorney General's Office will continue to try and identify ticket scalpers.

The Disney show Hannah Montana and its stars are such a phenomenon these days sometimes even the stars themselves can't believe it.

(Mitchel Musso, Hannah Montana co-star)"Yeah, I guess I'm surprised, but at the same time like they love Hannah Montana, they love the show, they're really excited about the concert."

No kidding- nine thousand tickets for Saturday's Hannah Montana concert featuring Myley Cyrus sold out in just minutes.

Then tickets for the show appeared on the internet-some 10 times the face value of the ticket price.

Now the Arkansas Attorney General is investigating what they call illegal scalping.

(Justin Allen, Chief Deputy Attorney General)"Arkansas has what is traditionally known as a scalping law and it says for event like this you are not allowed to sell ticket for above the face value excluding a reasonable handling fee."

And while the Attorney General's Office tries to identify who these scalpers are, they worry some concertgoers will unknowingly present fraudulent tickets at Saturday's concert.

(Allen)"The history so far at other Hannah Montana concerts is that there has not been much of that but we're certainly concerned that there's a few individuals who may find that they're ticket was not good."

If you are going to the concert Saturday--North Little Rock Police say there is a good chance a section of Broadway between Popular and Magnolia will be closed.

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