at the van ways ally merry ben still executive director of the theater and we have had one fantastic season and exhausting i'm here with my marketing director a check stephens did you think i was going to kill you this first year you've come close to  been so successful and we have one show left one more show more or maybe you know our season really doesn't technically until the end of september but we are adding american idol live which we did last year we had a huge sell out totally and this this formats a little bit different tell me about another is what appear what they're talking about is doing the just the top five and rather doing you know all concert segments of the the top ten is to have a much more up close and personal look at those images what they were just absolutely and so i also think the tickets are a little less expensive this year which we like and i think with you if you buy a ticket you also get a digital download the show is actually going to be on let's see july eighth july it was wednesday and i recommend you go out and get your tickets because people have a fantastic time last year it sold out so quickly across the country last year i know it's going to do the same thing again this year so it's a very exciting call glad to see it come in keep my july busy thank you very well anyway we have of course announced our broadway season and we have a huge show coming know ormus show and i know you've worked with this show before book of mormon is coming and it is going to have everybody buzzing in sarasota i've handled it in a number of cities and you just can't believe the amount of a claim a show gets the amount of laughter a brings in your wallet and it's source it's going to push the boundaries but you're all going to love it it's a traditional myth musical at the same time oh yeah which are very very funny and has a little explicit language in it but it's it's very funny and we right now are selling it with our subscription campaign so you can buy a book of mormon we have a couple of packages one we have all the shows and you get a twenty percent discount on most shows and most sections and then we have one where you we've split it up have it is a five musical series and another that's a six musical series both series include book of mormon and the all ten series includes book of mormon as well yeah and i think what we do is we put the first shows in the season together and then the second and then of course you can buy them all or we have a really popular option which is picked for more and that you get a ten percent discount and so to go with this mega musical we've added a lot of other great broadway shows but let's see a little bit of book of mormon first one of  kind of the public image seems to just fit with musical theatre the guardian says in reality there are very few things you actually have to do before you die they include paul your mom off to recycle  i've never heard such proof shaking laughter tears vanity fair entertainment weekly calls it the funniest musical of all time this book of mormon is so good i they were just hysterical and i must say when i saw it on broadway the audience went wild absolutely flooded the ages i was expecting older people not to enjoy it as much of their roaring along with everybody else and i was on a sunday matinee and the audience was older and they tickets sure and you know the new york times calls it the best musical of the century that's not a bad thing to say but i love it so some of the shows that are coming along with it is we open broadway one with disney's beautiful  so beautiful that i'm but beauty and the beast has some of the most fantastic songs and for those of you this is a show for children for adults and this is the last time it's on the road it's the end of th so much in that show it's all about a guy that's producing the show but he needs it to be a flop so he can steal all the money from the little old ladies he's calming the music out and sort of a go to becomes a hit yeah they're in these like oh my god what i do exactly what i do but the producers is going to be on december thirtieth and it was kind of if we can have we'll be announcing a new year's eve show this year for a change we're going to do a big show yeah and then i think one of the most exciting broadway shows of all time and my favorite is  and then buddy holly i have not ever seen this show and last night it was out to dinner with folks and they were saying to me this is their favorite show what i've been helping so subscriptions here in the theater i've had more people stop and say the buddy holly shows coming back again they're and it's of course andrew lloyd webber's fabulous score it just makes you happy it's a fantastic fantastic show and let's look at a little joseph the amazing technicolor dreamcoat andrew lloyd webber's uplifting musical masterpiece joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat the show with something for everyone in the family just bring the family and share the dream any dream that's the appropriate so i would go in there go back to your clothes and get that white suit going to sit with a blank shirt you know and get your moves on but tony manero is coming back to town you know and i will say some of our younger people are like tony manero you know and i'm like oh well never it when they see if they'll get it when they see it and then we have bullets over broadway which was last year on broadway and clever that they mentioned pulitzer over broadway on broadway but anyway woody allen's you know based on the and it's about a producer that gets himself in a little trouble and bullets start flying and it's great fun to record and quick resolution is a stronger world that absolutely well my gosh she's the best my favorite and we have a little  elvis presley carl perkins jerry lee lewis and johnny cash were all supposedly together on one night in sun records and you know there were some feelings because carl perkins sort of stole i mean excuse me elvis stole his exactly and of course they threw a girl into the show that he wasn't literally there that night but you know a little sex appeal and jerry lee louis was my favorite in the world so ok yeah because he just you know he just what he did with the piano mean and that's march twenty sixth and we have two shows and we have a matinee and an evening because that's on a saturday and then we end our broadway series with mama mia yes and it's sad but mommy is finally going off broadway or for all those years your last chance to see mamma mia for a long time and it's here it will nineteenth and twenty and of course super trouper money money money and i don't know if you have the best of all that's a great da your girlfriends are going to love it and i was watching the today show the other night the other night the other day the morning and they said there's a big announcement coming up from and so they so everybody thought you know they thought that they were going to reunite and go back on tour and they said aba has decided to open a mamma mia restaurant in sweden and everybody went oh oh yeah i'm right on that i'm right on that so when we come back we'll talk a little more about our broadway specials our dance and and our orchestra and then we'll have a really special guest someone that's near and dear to our heart chef paul bateson who operates a restaurant right here in the van ways so we will be back in just a minute off 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 if you 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 familial status or disability call at one eight hundred six six nine nine seven seven well as promised paul madison is here before you got here paul i probably embarrassed you to death by saying how handsome you are but it's true thank you but we are quite close with paul paul does a lot for the from the things he does you know we have a we have a huge i shares your group and we have a thank you dinner and you donate by being a sponsor of the hall to that and work with a friday fest and all sorts of great things but  you know you were the executive chef and proprietor of madison and i was reading some of the background and as well as having the restaurant here you have a number of other restaurants that you seem to try to make unique to the neighborhood y it's interesting whenever we find a property or every time i found a property and had the opportunity to build a restaurant i always try to look at the surroundings and what's there you have to kind of you know play to your crowd a little bit just as you do in the entertainment business  so you know the restaurants are different to reaching your unique you know medicines for you want is more of a fine dining operation down on you know a lot of residential homes in that area a lot of people that really enjoy dining out we do lunch monday through friday and then dinner every it very hot in the summer and we put a layer of foam insulation that actually blocks the heat from coming through and then we just have big fans that move there so it's balmy it's tropical feeling but it's fallen in to do some great i think you know i mean i've had i remember this one toward dinner several different food stations is always kind of primer soup and salads and appetizers big sell a bar lots of desserts and then of course many main course items seafood and chicken and everything so it's nice and i think that gives people the flexibility to get up  run when they need to know it's there is good at processing the checks quickly they are and here you know as the end of the season came along we have this beautiful outdoor patio that looks out with the sunset and people were walking outside with drinks and things like that and i hope some point we can like do something where people can eat outside and we did the other night we can i had some friends you were telling we came to we came to one of the performances one of the shows and we had dinner before outside on the patio and in that special it was wonderful and so i can tell you many people came by me and said how do you do that can you just sign up  think a lot of people don't know that but when they're buying their tickets whether it's online or through the box office they can go ahead make reservations for dinner as well absolutely and folks can come to dinners here whether you're seeing the show or not and that's a new feature we had this year when people buy tickets they have the opportunity to purchase the dinner as well and a lot of the dinner throats i should tell you are sold out because you know when we have seventy eight hundred people in the hall and we could see what about the one fifty couple hundred people is is pushing depending on how big the parties are and how many tables but we do start to run out of tables so and so the patios been been helpful they help people think just need to get into the kind of the habit of remembering that you can dine outside on a beautiful evening to now you're a new yorker and you had an italian grandmother but i heard you just want to thank you for everything you do for the community for us here at the van way it's all and we urge everybody to go and and see your restaurant it doesn't matter which one they're all individual and great and we will be back in what happens when people take action against housing discrimination my coworker was pressured by her landlord to pay her rent but sexual favors my neighbor was told she needs to get rid of her dog even though he's an assistan in sarasota is neil burke because this is parents lived here i believe it's his mother still lives here his father passed on and and he brings a group of top notch stars from the broadway shows and they sing songs from and coming up you know the staff always kids me because linda eder is my favorite singer in the world and linda eder i think would have been his biggest barbra streisand as far as sales and records and she has that voice beautiful but she doesn't like to work all the time and she has horses and a family and she really enjoys life but oh gosh i would give anything for linda go back on another broadway show because she always tells the story that she she was a diva you signature songs and i have decided this summer to go to vienna almost because of just that song but coming up we're going to be talking about salute to vienna and that's the other reason i'm going to vienna but linda eder is coming back and we apart so bob is going to open the show and he's going to sing the number of his his hits and you know he's going to sing songs from other shows and stuff like that and then linda will be singing and then they're going to sing together and i was lucky enough way back when to travel to texas where jekyll and hyde started and saw it at the houston regret house and and then i got to see it on the road and i saw it on broadway and this is a treat to have those two together we actually had jekyll and hyde this year oslo and and then we have a new show called broadway and the big band years and you know this is a new show so i don't know as much about it but it's the shows that took place during that time  a great fun show so and that is april for so you can if you do the pick or choose you can use the shows as well add in or if you buy broadway subscriptions you can get the shows at a ten percent disco exactly exactly and the great thing about being a broadway subscriber is before the season tickets go on sale for the whole season you get an on sale day and you get a chance to to be able to come and buy your tickets before the crowd exactly as it was before the general public which is look at this we added ringo this year we added harry connick and diana ross and those people all got a chance to buy the tickets before they went on so it was the crowds and you can also do that by being a member of our e mail club exactly so and you go on our website w w w of in ways they were just sign up for the club and that's a that's a great way while you're there you could also put off the order form for this season and fill it out and it well but i was in three o'clock in the morning this morning trying to buy tickets to the king and i in new york because i wanted to see it you know and i was not being very successful and they show you those funny boxes with the scrawl the letters three in the morning it's like you know  but anyway we also have our orchestra series that's coming this year and again this my other reason for wanting to go to vienna is because we're doing salute to vienna again and i was so happy you had the chance to me to tell a marrying glads who are the producers of the show delightful and we had the best very best dinner with them and right got to talk about it because they bring in you know new dancers and all the strauss waltz's and they're even talking me into going to  january thirtieth and salute to b n is on january third and then the big orchestra one of the biggest orchestra in the country you know what all the organizers know a lot about it we do because i've told the story before my my building was right next to the academy of music where the and then we have another orchestra coming in from israel this one is the jerusalem symphony orchestra it's on march the first and this is a great great orchestra and i think they're going to be playing  fantastic music and then they have a young virtuoso who i think is twelve twelve years this on the on the cello so that should be fun and then the final in our disney in our orchestra is disney's fantasia then i can mention real quick we have announced our friday fest bands on june nineteenth will be having kettle of fish which is a classic rock cover band and they play a lot locally on july tenth we have and the gamble creek band which is a country band and i believe her dad is dicky betson is actually that's you know and then yesterday's we are praying yesterdays is our has been the favorite band ever every summer and then every summer yesterday it's comes and it say that i did not do very well and i was afraid i was going to get a little in trouble there but i did ok and lots of motown and soul and so come to the box office nine five three three three six eight or go online get your subscriptions are sure i would because let me tell you you won't want to miss book mormon or any of these shows next year and we will see you a hopefully an american idol and we'll be back even before american idol to tell you a little bit more about what's