but but anyway we just had a great event announcing our our whole things and for next year march twenty sixth all the subscription broth for a classical orchestra dance and broadway and mary has my period here so it's the best star centerpiece of our new season the van ways so has never done a multi way engagement before and this big blockbuster for three weeks in march which is of course a great month to do it and they're going to be she was just terrific in the audience really really really dug her we had over a thousand people it was amazing us and i i really i can't wait and so we normally present one full week of equity broadway well this year we decided to do four because in addition to the lion king we're also doing a week of on your feet the gloria and a million i'm telling you i fell in love with that when i saw it in the yorks so much i mean it was just i think i switched to like  he is the nicest guy i've been with you have no idea how global his reach is in the music business because he really brought the whole hispanic music trend out there and he was relentless he made it mainstream and that's important because for so long it was truly a niche music form so it was and the show you and i both seen it a couple of times and they're absolutely the title on your feet you were on your feet absolutely by the end oh my god i was on even earlier it was so impressive and there was so much the actual stagecraft that was so unique to the show which i loved and it's the week of december twenty sixth through the thirtieth and chuck has guaranteed me he's going to sell that entire week out probably so then we have some so those are new to our season so they're there sarasota premiers and then we have some other ones that have been to sarasota before but my gosh rodgers and hammerstein and some of the most beautiful music when i'm in the whole r he would love that but no at lincoln center and it was beautiful of the boat came right out into the audience because it that's sort of sitting in the round or at least in the thrust rather and it was just remarkable and i've seen oh my gosh it's just a gorgeous gorgeous i love the school i love the music i go read it coming back quite a lot yeah we just had audra mcdonald here who played the mother abas on the television light production and she was very funny saying this was the strangest mother apis because you know normally you don't think of a black woman playing the role but you know with casting these days right i love the fact that we can do nontraditional casting and she was a brilliant mother abas i course played that role in high school and going through the roof and really if she could do it could she could be that she could be the fiddler you know whatever audrey gets in a broadway show everybody else might as well give up their tony hopes because she's won six of so many so i hope to bring her back again folks but then back to the show's then a really new show we have is something rotten right saw that on broadway it's shakespeare doing a musical does that make any sense no and then we have another new show which sort of has another theme that's tied into the theater business finding neverland you really love this one i always want to see bits and pieces of it in the whole thing i we're having it in february nineteenth and twentieth and of course peter pan which unfortunately this year we had to cancel the three d production because the tour didn't happen i figured we're going to get you peter pan in one way or the other but this is the this is a musical based on how how peter pan came to be in writing it yes and it's i mean there's a scene call there's a scene where peter pan flies out and there's this glitter scene and maher box office manager david walker would have paid for a ticket he said just to see that scene you know and beautiful beautiful music and great for families as well and then we have a show that you know was really ground breaking i mean it's like every twenty years there's a show that just puts broadway on its ear and it's just like how it is now and now and back little stairwell and my legs started acting up and i couldn't believe i was so in thrall by the show which really caught yeah and that's going to be on april ninth and tenth and when you look back to the cast you see so many people that had been in that cast who are now stars like the original gre know all those people who became big stars out of that one and we're you know we're forgetting one more rodgers and hammerstein which is in the realm of cinderella here is the new role is one of our broadway specials this year and i really wanted to bring cinderella back because cinderella was just so special know the participation of residence in local government is very important to the well being of any community volunteer advisory boards and committees are a great opportunity for local governments to engage their citizens in the process of crafting policies and tackling issues the city of sarasota has over twenty five advisory boards and committees with numerous opportunities for our citizens to volunteer their time and expertise from parks and recreation to public art to the historic preservation board many advisory boards require some experience in particular fields or professions and some only require residency in the city of sarasota here's a list of the current i'm here with kelly maldonado who has one of the most prominent and popular jobs at the van ways so you're the director of education and community outreach yet so wonderful i mean i love what i do because it's had a chance to bring something that i'm really passionate about the arts  passionate tell you i am here out to our students our teachers and the families that we serve i know and when you see some of these families that you work with you know on the total access program and all the master classes it must give you great be very rewarding as i mean we are serving students that would normally be able to come to see our main stage productions with our total access program giving that family a chance to come and have a dinner and talk to each other and then see world class theater and then we've also been connecting more with families connected to our school time performances and finding a way to work together with them i think you know that is really special and this show is taped of course everybody but in today's paper there was a lovely letter from someone that was writing about how important arts education is and how they really use arts education and they said they were in a technological field but the arts education programs were so important to show them how they could work reaching some people and i listen to all these people that have gone through the arts programs and how they now have a really great job the arts teach skills that the skills that aren't tested but that are important to success in careers things like problem solving creativity collaboration and those are the skills that employers are saying are the most desirable scales and that's something that the arts can teach and about isn't it it is and as well as teaching things like that i also think you know you really help the economy you know the arts contribute so much to the economy kelly is also in charge of our grants program and you have a wonderful person working with you laurie who writes fabulous grants for us but we're pretty disappointed recently with the wasn't that a disappointment to you it's it's a big challenge i mean i understand that school security is where people were trying to find find lots of money and where some of these changes happened but i understand it's challenging when we have the art to not and work with students you know and so you know we're such a small part of the budget and to have it just go to almost nothing was really disappointing to me so hopefully we'll get some fun fundraisers somebody that can step up to the plate and help us for that last in our budget kelly and of course i get confused when i hear two gen approach so can you explain that for everybody or to dan is an approach an initiative that sarasota county has really taken on this is a national initiative that looks at if we say we want to make sure the students are being prepared for their best future that the parents and their family is a part of that we need to make sure that the parents are getting skills so that they can support the learning of their children so we've been able to do that by in addition to bringing our title one student into the theater to see our school mean these are schools that serve students that eighty percent or more on free or reduced lunch that are set out of a good price would be challenging because most of those students need money for lunch if so there are they really are most needy students so we bring them into our school time performances and we've been training their teachers teaching them how to use the arts but this to jenna approach we've been able to provide family literacy nights and family science nights that's an evening where we go to the school the students and their families are invited to come for a dinner at a workshop where we teach them art space skills that teach literacy or science so we say to parents when you're reading with your children here's how you can use simple drama skills to engage with your child or ask them questions about how have parents reacted to this program it's just absolutely been amazing we've had parents that have a preschool student that say i had no idea that there was so much in an illustration that we can look and talk about this illustration talk about what we can learn about the book and it gets their child excited about reading and then they practice bringing it to life and they get even more excited in the after read it over and over again and this program we give them a book at the end of this work so they get a book to read and i also know teli did one in cooperation with dragons love tacos and there were tacos all over the building you know the killer enjoying them and having a ball it was so much that was when we looked at a taco party and looked at party themes how you can look at the mundane idea in a book but then look at how as actors we can create tabloids with a theme and then a main and then have details that support that so it supported a really important letter and i think people you know sometimes miss the fact that just giving a book or a meal to a family that don't normally have the resources can mean all the different in the world it really does and we've seen the benefit we we were across the street at publix and saw a little girl with the dragons of tacos at one of our books and when you look inside it is it has our bookplate in it so it was one of the books that we gave that child that they were acting and what i do and kelly has a child too and hold of here we want to have but i know when i asked you last year what should i give him for christmas you are like books he he loves books and i just think that is so special he loves he's and he still loves them and what he's doing is now he wants to try and read them to me he can't read the words yet but he looks at the pictures and they have a brain what's happening so he either remembers what's happening or he just wants to look at the book and talk about it and you know he's got a theater artist for a mother so that he looks at the picture and wants to act it out and tells me he wants to act it out with him so we're often reaching up for stuff that stuck in one of his favorite books right now wow and so you can see folks the passion right here if we kill you demonstrates that every day and i would recommend anybody that wants to be involved in any of our education programs call call you reached at nine four one nine five five seven six seven six extension two two four six that two two four six and what you have and we have we have three shows that are coming up after we have them and chance on april twenty seventh clementine on may first and then the graph on the on may tenth and we have an opportunity for the family activities connected to be fabulous and these are school time performances and folks tickets are only seven dollars but if there's a needy situation we would leave any child behind we make sure that for those students in great need we figure out funding to help them come to our performances so check out our website give kelly a call kelly has a great assistant that can help you and kelly thank you for so much you do i mean it is the joy of everybody here at the van ways will to work with the education department thank you mary and we'll be back in a minute every day forty four people in the u s die from drug overdose but they don't have to in florida if you're trying to save the life of another person you're protected from prosecution by the good samaritan and i love the fact that she has a child and that she gets to use these principles with billy and you know they came to see the charlie brown christmas show and billy you know he had bought the little doll r and kelly bought one and i bought one and i think there was a third one and he kept looking at me and going to charlie brown charlie brown and then when charlie brown came on stage and it really helps kids to recognise i think a lot and it helps young children as well as it helps kids teenagers and that's a whole different area of our school time in our education program that we can talk about it another time because she doesn't create some fantastic things usually over your in my head as far as what they're about i thought that was kind of a crazy thing to get but and he especially likes the hard books you know with the hard pages because apparently he rips them apart because he reads them so many times that they read them over and over again i remember when my sister's children were little and they would for a long time i think the israel filler monic the i p o as it's called was here many many many years ago but certainly not since i've been here the problem has always been they are touring in november and so many of our orchestra patrons are here after the first of the year and so this year they are coming in february most importantly who's been made it's his last time conducting and this is the last u s tour and i mean so if you want to see been made and the israel fuller monic and we've already worked out with the jewish federation of sarasota manatee they are sponsoring the event very excited about it because this is we've had some other orchestras from israel but this is  early march did a fantastic broadway season with laura and norm lewis and i went and to hear broadway music that sometimes when you go to a broadway show there's fifteen or sixteen people in the pit and lincoln center when they did south pacific they did thirty and laura got to see if she was played nellie following you know the star and she said here with a huge orchestra on stage so i mean it's such a difference because you know it's great when we get to hear live music but not with that many piece and this is a great one to bring kids to because it's an introduction to her through all these including harry potter don't know what we would call it well i love about rob do back i've worked with him on his male intellect the oxymoron right my man is very very funny in a subtle way he's not course at all and these this is new one called the book of moron which is a joke  trust me it's not the book of moron i'm amazed the book of mormon didn't sue him for the i think so but it's a different word and it's on april fifth and i think we have some video but i know chuck being a man you can learn a lot from this yes i can and then we go right to country you know why not oh and the big noise with your husband's band and she's i always found this amazing that rolling stone called her the greatest country female singer since that cyclone because i look at the quiet i did you really i  and we wanted out for everybody to enjoy and that was the sweetest thing i want to your husband as i've never met anyone they attacked this before his name it's sad to see it will come and see it would love him two years ago we came here and i don't think i laughed that much that you're ever i mean and when he was so funny on dancing with the stars then we have the great musical a chorus line my wife will be at each one of those perform their favorite musical and then we have chance which in the whole thing and then we end the season with the yani right on april twenty ninth recreating his live at the crop was concert that was twenty five years ago right years ago and we have so many shows folks we had to rush through them all but please check out our website you can get a brochure online or call us all star something if you brochures if you haven't got one you can get it on our website the new subscription series we're just trying to stop by the box office or wake them up and get a