what you thought oh i thought it was fantastic just to see everybody and learn about the process of how they do a musical and how involved it is and how strenuous and anxiety ridden it is just to put a show on yeah it is amazing and i know that  this is your st time there and so but it was nice you got after our production of blanking being such a huge success you went and had lunch with the lion king right toward the disney offices correct it was wonderful really steve was doing that while i was i was invited to go see to kill a mockingbird which is one of the most brilliant plays this you know of course we all know to kill a mockingbird but aaron sorkin wrote this screen this pla and it's the dialogue of course is very aaron sorkin ish you know if you will and it's interesting they have adult actors playing the kids and you think that that would be very odd but just it flows into it and jeff shows that we have next year right what i saw a beautiful waitress book of mormon and come from a way those are the four that were going to our standing among others of course i've seen a lot of those so i saw a new show that i really loved  we have some local connection with here in sarasota but i love that it got fourteen tony and it's up for best musical i also loved the new musical called the prom which was so much fun and it's about you know a young girl trying to go to the prom she's a lesbian and you know how she was being excluded from the whole process and of course coming to the rescue were broadway  here you know two weeks earlier and of course there's only one left alive but it was a really wonderful story and does mack enough the director jersey boys also directed and that's up for a yeah but i you know my marketing team that was with me was so excited i'm very excited about it so yeah absolutely and we're going to talk to more about our broadway season in our rd segment but subscriptions are on sale now and we also just put on sale one of my favorite shows it's the rd or th time it's been to the band way it's all a friend of mine turned me on to this group it's called straight no chaser and when she talked to me about it she said it was an acapella man's group and i thought  website when you google it because people will resell the tickets at a much higher price right so but that is a great fun show and i love it every time that we see that and then it's friday fest time right now is this your st friday  where you were here last year last summer but i only went to one of them because i came in the middle of august so if i were to offer it isn't it is a great blast of a time and it's it is worse for concerts i almost wish we start them sooner because when it gets so hot you know you want to be outside outside yeah you buy the water free you come you get to see a great concert we have fantastic food vendors here and we also have chances for tickets one big night out and we have the leader of the band coming on in our nd segment and he's going to tell us a lot of things about a big night out good but we have some video and i think as we can see it's the ban oh yeah and unfortunately i'm coming back from california that day so i won't be here otherwise i would make them play happy birthday there you know we have a group that's been here before that i love rebel heart and they're playing country that's right and what do you feel about country music so i think it's wonderful especially when you want to dance yes the perfect thing to do and it's the pop country it's not the much older you know and i like both right now right like both and they have hits of all just drummers too as tower of power because they have a lot of horns in the band i saw tower power open for the rolling stones in my youth you know let's look a little bit reverend barry they are a wild band as well and then our last group is airy and the alibis now i have never seen areon the alibi i have not either september th and i hear it's funk jazz rock blues high energy they've had two grammy  nods and airy it's got an amazing powerhouse voice so so i will be back for that one and i just put forward to it a wonderful and so as i said in our next segment we're going to be talking to bruce glasberg from big night out our st friday fest and we'll be back at a minute in a minute rather season is upon us and city of sarasota residents are urged to have an emergency plan and be prepared before the storm make sure your disaster supply kit is well stocked with water food medicines extra batteries for flashlights and portable radios st aid kit and supplies for infants children and pets electricity baby out for several days so be sure to get cash and fill your car with gas also know if you live in a flood zone and be aware of evacuation routes near issue having a plan and being prepared to help keep you and your family safe in the event of an emergency for more information on the declarations of emergency services and other story related welcome back to at the van ways well as i mentioned we have an artist with us today which is sighting we have bruce glasberg who is the leader and the trombonist a big night out welcome thank you very much paul it is so glad to have you here so tell me about your career and how you ended up in sarasota well when i was in for rd grade th grade my best friend across the street played trombone i said wow that looks cool so that's the only reason why i play and improvisation or jazz and blues so in there getting a science degree and then after college i started really getting into music i found a very inspirational teacher who really made music my religion in a sense he really taught a very deep level how to express emotions and how to improvise you know he said before you can improvise two different notes you need to display one note we have a solo busy just playing one knows but out but up you know whatever and just really learn rhythm and emotion so he kind of really inspired me just for the rest of my musical life yeah i've been see that and i lived in l a for a while and you know l a but i saw in your bio that you said you fled from l a tell us  the time in l a well always a crazy city you know i have never been there i've been all around the world and i've never been to l a other than the airport you know i was there like eighty five to ninety five so they had to northridge earthquake they had the great job when the music was spectacular i had great friends but after ten years of air pollution in traffic and my parents retired to sarasota so really many new yorkers i said all right i don't really want to move to florida but trombone player it's not easy to get to exactly how many bands have trombone right right now if you earth wind and fire and chicago right there are a few band yeah so when i was in l a i had a mentor and he said just create your own opportunities just form a band yep i never had that idea so you know they ended up forming a band and then i moved to sarasota i had a jazz band for a little while and then i joined a scout band called strangeways scott  threw a band together and it was fourteen years ago it was big night out and it's a great name for a band i always want to big i doubt you know i was trying to figure out a name for the band and so i sent an email to all my friends and family saying and all the sudden the police kick open the door with their guns drawn and we're on stage jamming and i'm thinking what do i do so i think a titanic movie you know where the band kept  playing in the cops looking on the table oh my god and kicking the bathroom doors open and we're just playing away go away and it turns out someone had stolen a car and the cops caught the suspect behind the bar so then  you're going to kick off there are a whole season i'm can't wait to hear you play now that i've had a chance to talk to you and i want to thank you so much and everybody come out to see big night out for our friday fest opener and we'll be back in a minute foil no that's for the trust you know that can actually go right in the garbage as well dirty diapers who dirty diapers no absolutely not how about whoa donna didn't you receive recycle information in the mail your water bill and when you received your new card and there is information also on the city's website that information highlighted everything you need to know about recycling please do your part b card smart to learn more subscriptions on and on sale and as we go through them where are subscriptions are so popular this year there are a couple shows that we may not have any single tickets to sell at all that's right tell you about it or if there are some that are limited at this right and escape to margaritaville which is the st show on our season is very limited and that's unfortunate we only had one performance we only have one performance we try to do two or three but there you know it sometimes the touring schedule that's right and it's on december nd and  it's the jimmy buffett musical that was rock and broadway and you know it's you know if you think cheeseburger in paradise and all that good stuff and we're right here you're right leader and so i'm really bummed we don't have more performances but  it's on december nd and single tickets don't go on sale until september so if you want to see that show i would recommend getting subscription and our subscriptions we have a forced show package we have a sick show and then we have a full season package and they have different discounts that's right you know of course if you get the bigger package you get a bigger discount but if you want to see to escape to margaritaville i would subscribe now and that phone number again is nine million five  but anyway another one we have and i'm going to let you talk about it this is the st time you yeah and it's carole king's beautiful it was so wonderful because it's a true story about her life and how she came up and as a composer i feel the earth move you've got a friend and we've got a little clip we can look at and there are going to be five shows of this december th the th so at least this one isn't sold out all right  i really am looking forward to having that come back and then that of course both of scaped margaritaville and beautiful are sarasota premiers and then we come back to one of the biggest hits we've ever had at the van ways and the book of mormon now you saw this for the south it's a great year and then we have bandstand and this is one that neither of us have seen i didn't see it the year it was on broadway around out of time you know i saw ten this year and i almost was going to see twelve but then one of the shows  so i was unable to do that but bandstand has been in the movie theaters they say you know every now and then they'll do a film clip for a t v production of the show a show that for a limited run and we saw it and it was fantastic and bandstand is not about american bandstand which is what i thought when i heard it all it's about when the boys came back from world war two and the music they brought with them and all of will be a performances and i just love it and if you haven't seen lame is you've got to see it and if you have you know you have to see it again and again right i heard there's new staging on this one as well yes there is and we actually had this version last time but they've refined it a little bit and i think we can see some of it in this video clip wonderful time on broadway and oprah winfrey was one of the producers in fact she made quite a stir not on the night i was there but when some of the other people were there she was singing to proud the temptation to call her and phil donahue but the color purple is just stunning it is this is a new production it won the best tony revival i've seen both the original and this and this is a stunning production and it's on march th and again because we only have one performance of the u k what if you want to get a ticket i'd say subscribe now yeah and let's look at a little of the color now the next show i almost feel like we should talk about right just heard this morning that it is looking like it's sold out and try to see it's american troops pulled out on subscription it's an american in paris it's march th and we tried to do more than one performance but they changed the tour schedule and it made it difficult and so we could only get one show in you know we had really struggled to put all of our shows around the sarasota orchestra and the ballet and  they try to work around us and it makes it very tight schedule so american in paris which is of course gershwin romance right to the line could ask one thing more there you go and so i really think that  if we get another performance there may be a couple of tickets left but you know that's why you need to subscribe that's right go to our website and then we have a bronx tale and a bronx tale is a fantastic show i saw it on  broadway really jersey boys meets west side story it's romance it's that kind of music the singing on the stoop and of course the show was directed by robert de niro well and a director i worked with very early in my career gerry sachs who is one of the most successful broadway choreographers and it's here on april twenty one and twenty two and then our last show you got to see and it's something else is right come from away from a way to see that is wonderful and can you describe it to folks it's something you have to see but it's about seven thousand passengers on various planes coming down after nine hundred and eleven dollars of course to this one small town in gander newfoundland and there's barely ten thousand people in that town and they have to take care of all these people and it's about how all these people from different countries get along and learn to help each other and it's a wonderful story it's the one show i'm really looking for you know i'm looking forward to that in a couple of other ones we've kind of run out of time today to talk about our classical season but i will just mention we have josh bell coming we have it's not perlman salute to be anna another show i'm really excited about the choir right you went to you got to see that at the e festival and pirates of penzance so this is the time to subscribe everybody because this is when you get the best seats and also get a chance to see some shows that are limited that's right so anyway call us at the van ways all ninety five thousand three hundred and thirty three sick go to man ways well dot org