and welcome to after then ways lie mary dunstall your host and in the background you may be hearing some music and some banging we have diana ross today doing a show tonight and that's what a little bit of the sound is that you may hear it's a it's an exciting day because and chuck and i have known each other a long time we worked together years ago in philadelphia dope in the ninety's in the middle knowing his life back when we did checks from boston he had never tyson gay just seen boston philadelphia and really knows the theater i mean my goodness the other night we had harry connick and oh was he to drastically it's just been one great show after another but we still have some shows coming up and one that is almost sold out is paul anka have you  before years ago and he was just a wonderful child who's and really warm gracious gentleman and it marks the second and the interesting thing about paul you may not realize because people know him as a singer but he's composed tap of the music's yes you know the man but anyway there are a few tickets left for paul anka and then we have a program called the russian gala program and i think that titles confused me with a little bit it is not the band ways all foundations are gala what it is it's you know about ways either do the long and we have a little special announcement and we can put this on sale yet because it's not really confirmed but we're looking at next year bringing linda eder along with robert cuccinelli who were the original stars of the show and linda of course best seats are available for the two o'clock matinee and that's marks the fifth and it's great to come here to a matinee cause if you can take in the beautiful sights out on the bay front we have to gorge furniture out there that you can see it look at the bay it's fantastic and then we have we switched to rock  i've worked up and down the east coast this is the house seriously does not have a bet it's like here in the living room yes i've wandered up about all the aisles and then comes the biggest show of the tired and we have jersey boys i mean please if you haven't seen it you've got  fifth anniversary forty fifth history people around the country are looking at the numbers out of a ways and for jersey boys and going crazy they cannot believe the numbers were throwing out it's helping us folks because let me tell you next year we have a huge broadway season without you know yes which we will not annou because i will be fired there you go now we're just joking about that but the nice thing about jersey boys it course is the story of frankie valli and you know and i am a jersey girl right so it's a force of a new two and then of course i moved right over to philadelphia where a lot more of the sound took place but this is their story this is frankie and the guy's story and it won the tony award it's just been like eight or nine tony and i just wonderfully the casting is tremendous how they find all these young men that can practice and play  three and a half octave it's all the range is amazing it is fantastic and i will tell you because of where the show's coming from we started on wednesday right wednesday march the eleventh and it goes to the fish center the fifteenth right but there is a thursday matinee matinee and sunday now folks as we're taping this there is little less than maybe fifteen hundred sixteen hundred tickets left to go at this point of about eighteen thousand yes that's just tremendous get them right away because you will  it recently so we're almost sold out for that show but here's you tip everybody on the day of the show sometimes because we have to hold by contract tickets for the artists and if they don't use them all we release so sometimes on the day of the show you could find better tickets like that and our box office manager is very good at keeping lists so if you'd like to get on a list for a show that he seeks out he will reach out to you and our phone number to order tickets is nine five three three three six eight or go to van ways old i work or come up to the building you know come up just sit outside and look at this beautiful beautiful bayfront there isn't a theater in the united states where you can drive up right in front walk in without any pricing problems or ticketing and go in and get  me how lucky you have it in sarasota because you have all the free parking i mean if you're in new york you're going to swell like put down your life savings and you know it's you can drive right up and then when you're in the theater because  the kind of seating we have it's the safest seating it is and then in new york i was just in new york you're looking through somebody's head because the seats are so close together and you're on the same level versus here and there was not so wonderful i'm short and i have not had a problem s behind anyone there you go in and the thing is you know the only thing that's a problem is if you're in the middle and you have to go to the bathroom so whenever i if i i always sit on the end because i want to grab me if there's an emergency but if i sat on the in the middle i would you know not too much of the cocktails and i want everyone to go to the other one room where you were seated please there you go but anyway then we have manhattan transfer which is a show we do have great tickets for and that's march eighteenth and they have won what is it grammys you know and ten time grammy winners and i really think they have such a fantastic right to sound you know tremendous and they make me happy what they're here what's good music yusuke so i think we're having a really fantastic season and folks we will be back in just a me it with our guest from the hyatt hotel one of our favorite sponsors that have support of them from the minute i arrived here in town and we'll be right this is anthony anthony is wanted everyone followers how can his parents tell him the color of their skin is keeping them from this apartment it's not just unfair it's illegal like to file a complaint so anthony's parents filed a housing discrimination complaint and now they have a wonderful place to live you've been trying to buy or rent a home or apartment and you believe you've been discriminated against because of your race color religion national origin sex tamilians status or disability call hud at one eight hundred six six nine nine seven seven town and they are banging away on the drums to me i think they should have had it down in one take but apparently brett they're going to bang all day but anyway this is right wilson and rhett tell everybody a little bit about your background i know you you've worked all over the country have  i started with high hotels back in two thousand and one and initially working in the kitchen in the coal unary side of the business but then transitioned through the events department and then eventually into sales and  started at the hyatt regency albuquerque in new mexico it's beautiful out there absolutely it's a bit of an under rated state but also great hospitality industry they are in the hyatt regency albuquerque was a great property for me to  fiesta is fantastic i think kodak says it's the number one most photographed of it in the world it is quite spectacular but i'm a north carolina guy and so eventually i wanted to get back east especially since my kids were young and we had the only grandkids and we were way out there in the desert so my in laws were in south carolina so it was good for us to be able to get back to the we're glad you're back here and high it has been the sponsor of the van ways will since i came to town of aid about eight years ago and we have really appreciate d of course you're right next door to us and with the perfect place to go have dinner before the show or have lunch and you know i really enjoy all the beautiful renovations but i know you have a resort activities program can you tell us a little bit about that we do we just instituted it about a year ago and so far it's going really well it's been very well received by our guests but essentially it adds a whole resort activities elements to the beautiful waterfront setting that we already  had so we just kind of wanted to capitalize on our marina and give our guests a little bit more of an experience of being in sarasota and getting out on the water and so we added things like pedal boats that will see families of four and the stand up  it adds a stand up paddle boards and kayaks and just all types of things right there on the water in addition to daily popsicles every day at two pm in the outer lane by the pool so the kids love that you take people over to the beach so you have a  with it also includes an access over to lido beach so if you're a want to get over in stroll around say norman circle and see what's out on the beach and catch the sunset you don't have a rental car then you can just use a lesser shuttle to get over and i think that's great because you know the parking over there can be really really tough especially right around that sunset hours oh my gosh why don't why not let us take care of the driving for you that is a great thing and i really really like that now we're having our forty fifth anniversary here at the van ways apparently you're having one you're a baby compared to us all right  so you've got a little age on us but it is our two organizations have come up together tonight and same time in seen all the change in sarasota this october we're actually celebrating our fortieth anniversary now many do you have any idea how many rooms there were originally in the hyatt hotel it's always it's always we haven't changed the room count but we've done some really major infrastructure changes i think right around the year two thousand or so we added the giant ball room that we have so that ballroom was an addition to the facility law at your restaurant and the food was amazing i recommend the tomato soup and the super salads fantastic absolutely chef corey is outstanding he joined us from the grand hyatt tampa bay just up the road so he's an alabama guy and so he's got a real southern whole culture and yeah energy about as a menu in not only that but he really likes to champion high it's thrive initiative to source locally and and so the vast majority of his produce over fifty percent really your is sourced locally and so that means it's going to be not only a little bit more affordable for our guests and customers but also a little bit fresher tasting good because you know i think it's a fantastic spot you know and it's good for parking and like i sa reported here and walk over and a lot of great thing i've often wondered what is the make up of your guests is it more you know people want steak cations or is it people coming from the nor at the or is it corporate it's actually a wide variety  then recent years we've seen it change and as sarasota really grows on the map and becomes a more of a popular vacation destination amongst all the competition here in florida we've seen the makeup of our travelers change as well so we're seeing more international visitors and it's really a mix about sixty forty and sixty percent being families or individual travelers coming in for business compared to about forty percent of our guests that are coming there for conventions conferences or meetings ok that makes sense to me and you know how could do you have a website or how do people get in touch and do you do anything special in the summer when it's slower months for the local people absolutely so the marys that we can now serve in the morning time fantastic and so just stay connected with us on line and then you'll learn about all the things that we're doing and that we're discovering in working in discovery phase of adding back to programs with our marina which used to be a thrilled because the hyatt here in sarasota has been our partner for a long time and we just want to thank you and we will be back at the end waste all in just a minute what happens when people take action against housing discrimination my coworker was pressured by her landlord to pay her rent to get sexual favors my neighbor was told she needs to get rid of her dog even though he's an assistan discrimination is illegal if you think you've been a victim reported to hard like me did they all reported discrimination and were able to secure their fair housing rights under the launch this is hunt dot com slash fair housing or call the hotline fair housing is your right use and welcome back to the at the band ways i did want to mention chuck our last guest has had such a great involvement in the community they sponsor some really fantastic programs three of them that jump out at me is the jack and jill right we all faith food bank and the hands on education and i think it's so fantastic when corporations especially a national chain take such a great leader local community that wonderful and exact said thank you again to our hyatt hotel now back to the theater we are summertime for kids from all over the country so we're looking forward to that now this is probably my favorite show of the whole whole year water mcdonald august dogs hack your word is she not she is and every time she goes on the broadway stage she wins a tony you know hundred tickets and i was so disappointed in that well this year when we announced her we immediately sold like a thousand tickets in the middle of the summer for a show in martha's march which amazing i said well i guess in sarasota you need to win six tony awards you know superbowl party she's amazing she runs like a bull and she barks at the dogs on the t v she's not afraid of anything no but you know she's going to get eaten some day i'm convinced she's appetizer size for my bald oh yeah there you go but anyway ses are is doing something wonderful here i'm working with dogs on stage from some of our local shelters shelter and i gave him a list of about thirteen and he's you know picking one some of the people on the list for the guide dogs and so forth and so on and and the so he has can be adopted be adopted at at and during the show and after the show and let's see a little bit of sales are for the past two decades the legendary cesar milan has been rehabilitating dogs and changing an now the next star is somebody that i have wanted to bring to the van ways for years i've been trying and trying i am talking about miss sarah mclachlan and she has one of those voice is that it's like an angel a special night folks you can still buy tickets to the show alone but if you can i would recommend calling our foundation and their numbers three six six five five seven eight because it starts out with a cocktail party this  delight and the thing is the profits from the gala go to support her education show graham which twenty five thousand school kids come almost every year and you know the tickets are only seven dollars and a lot of the tickets to title one just so excited so excited i mean all you have to do is turn turn on the lights in the theater and you hear through rehab center and they're wonderful and then we go from sarah to another broadway show now this is kind of like very close to my heart flashdance  was a pentasa tic movie and it was about this exotic dancer in pittsburgh and of course for that understand i work for the pittsburgh ballet and she was auditioning for the pittsburgh ballet back when i she had no ballet training but of course it was the yes i have been watching these guys since i was young they still sound as good as they and they do well they do is near here on the april third in the cool thing is you get half the shows the temptations the others of the four tops right i mean you can't get any better than that so it's wonderful and then i will tell you still coming up this year real quickly and we'll talk about this more next time we're here we have the great chef robert irvine johnny mathis is coming up chris botti roberta flack celtic woman kathy griffin boz scaggs rain lights i love diana all she had to cancel because she got pneumonia and has rescheduled for april's my wife made me get our tickets for diana krall right away right away saw them on the list again just this one night so we're really excited about that so again our phone number is nine five three three three six eight and then we are also pretty soon folks going to be announcing our broadway season we have an announcer orchestra season next really which is the philadelphia orchestra joshua bell and the