talk to you about today we just had a great great american idol concert i thought it was fantastic the tour i did and sam wolf who i always call scott wolf is fantastic and he is so cute as you know doll baby  his grandparents and little ricky nelson oh yeah of course he doesn't know who ricky nelson is i know he does now though and he's like would you leave that you know go in but anyway he was fantastic and by smear chapman gave him the key to the city and it was on the front page and he was just he was so it were like oh my god he sounded grace i hope for big things for him in the future and of course we just have another great friday fest huge huge great turnout no rain no  rain and i was on vacation and missed it but of course i came back from vacation with a cold again so if i break out in coughing fit everybody that's what's going on it's hard it's the second time i've been on a plane in  fireworks yes watching the fireworks but this is our forty fifth season and i'm already working on the fiftieth anniversary that'll be very exciting we have our first show is peter frampton as we mentioned and you know i remember him when i was you know a much younger girl and ever there you go but anyway we had peter frampton and then we also announced a lot of our shows that are in october and november lyle lovett is another one another great player and lyle right now is playing a really sort twisted character on the bridge of any of you watch f x he's he's not a real good guy in that one at least he doesn't seem to be a turn around to be good i don't know but then bill maher there's still a few tickets left for bill maher he's october twenty sixth and then a new show we announced and it's a new and old show because it's been here before it's capitol steps hilarious hilarious november one now capitol steps of course was a group of internes from the hill and staffers and they decided to very interesting this year it's always a sell out and it's great fun but then we have november fifth susan boyle she has been she sell so many tickets you know we're almost at fifteen hundred i think there are still some tickets left so you know call up the box office but it's been you know to put the show on sale in the middle of the summer it's been amazing of course susan boyle was that phenomenal lady from i believe in scotland who who was on britain's got talent and saying that fantastic song i dreamed a dream from les mis was a while but she's coming on our first national tour and we just added a comedian you and i've been trying to get for years to the van ways will want to sykes is coming  a lot of t v and that's why we haven't been able to get her because you know it's either pilot season but a show but she's funny and of course you know what i would say is more for the grown ups you know and i think she's hysterical and she's on november sixteenth and then we're going in a different direction totally as we know is there was a way because we have a lot of diversity here and it's very important to us but we are bringing you boys and girls men and women the walking dead musical part which is called the evil dead the musical so it's not the walking dead but as you can imagine the evil dead has the same theme and for some of us old it golding's if you'll remember the rocky horror s sure they're saying it's the new right it's it's well it's and it's of course it's all about zombies and you know everything's about zombies now and of course i am more of you know i like saif i and things like this so i'm walking dead fan and i can't wait to the guy might want to purchase a ticket or talk about purchasing a ticket and the splatter sliders and we have the splatters own folks so how many rows is the splatter four rows so you're going to have to wear it's yeah yeah you have to wear a poncho and this is also a show for adults so you know we very much we've done all sorts of shows here at the band ways will put evil dead the musical is coming your way it's also playing in a number theaters i think it's playing up the strad over at the broward center because their ticket here get your ticket here yeah and then it's here on november the nineteenth and we've had them open their tour here before but not only do they have those fantastic new age musical players but they have great videos with everything song they do and you know it's one that just makes me happy and so tickets are on sale for all of these shows and you can call nine five three three three six eight come down to our box office go onto our website it and ways will dot org exactly and then we staying in sort of  holiday theme although if this isn't a total holiday they show it's celtic thunder and this year the shows different oh it's going to be wonderful with a something with the symphony so they won't just have the irish players they'll have all sorts of musicians as well it's going to be beautiful i heard it's going to be really nice but well i have never seen one of their shows that hasn't you know logorrhea way and it you don't have to love irish music i mean it's just fantastic and then for like the last four or five years we've had dave cause here and he has opened his tour here at the band what it's all it's sort of been a tradition you stayed at one of the local hotels and the crew and everybody had thanksgiving dinner with dave i thought it was thanksgiving dinner  h yeah so it's been special and this year he's bringing back probably our number one favorite person jonathan butler oh yes south african singer songwriter little drummer boy oh that's so he stops the house i know it does christopher cross you know and all the year i've been in show business i've never seen christopher cross why i haven't either and i've seen him dead either but i've never seen them live i've seen him of course on t v and you know in concerts but never seen him live and then he's bringing one other performer my stuff myself and i might as i'm waiting for you because i didn't know how to pronounce it and i thought and what does my so do i i she's a combination of new music i really don't know how  hanukkah songs and really i mean he's one of the you know the chairman of our board mike martella came for the first time last year and we've been urging him to come and he stopped me after the show and said i wish i had come all the other years this is the most but anyway just showing our ignorance here on at the end we will be right back with one of my favorite people in sarasota is here to talk about a very special gala they're having right here as a family  the sarasota city commission will soon have to seize to fill two members of the commission will be stepping down and two city residents will be selected to fill the vacancies the city commission will appoint the new commissioners on november ni if you live in district two or district three in the city of sirius and you'd like to service a city commission or call nine five four four one six zero or stop by city hall if fifty and sixty five first street the complete application packets are available now at the office of the city clerk or download the application forms from our website at www dot com application packets must be hand delivered to the office of the city auditor an like calling for me yeah i didn't intend on banning found there you go but there are and it's really wonderful if i had a great experience with nate we had separate debts who is one of the primary people on broadway that does a lot of decisions and so does a radio show so we invited many people in the area to come over for a master class so nature those up so they and this is a whole thing on audition technique and everyday so what does nate do so he gets up and he sings and does this me anything like what is this guy ringer or what you know because you were so excellent you know he was like you were an average student you know he gave me a great compliment he did his heart he was  spunk and say wow that sounds like me i'm not sixty five but close but anyway you were coming here to the band ways all for a very special gala event can you tell us all about the details and what the show is and amazing wonderful broadway star has been in tarzan sister act and several other broadway shows but he has put together a piece on jackie wilson of jackie wilson and favorites and they're going to come out and do appreciate that evening are you having a dinner or a kind of burning of after party i'm going to have a live band and it's right here at the van way over here at the van ways a we're so glad to have a sponsor make that possible as many great black theatre troops as as as there should be and to have one here in sarasota is so special and a testament to you nate tell us you've been going on and on but you got involved with christine jennings and you you've got your own building now you know we went thirteen years without a home everybody knew we were like the back a bunk company going place to place to place we had never had a people would show up at the van weighs a box office and tell us they were looking for your  you know and we're like no they're not here and we would try to help them find a show of you know it was one of the biggest burdens as a founder that i had trying to find a stabilize home for us we've never had executive director before and christine came on board our tenth year start working with me as  all of that culminated in to put together a phenomenal board and several months ago we purchase two acre piece of property with phenomenal buildings so we went from no space to more space than we can the people can't find you know excuse now and we get rid of beautifying the space nine's put signage there and making that out just the nation but it's the talent that you have here in sarasota it has many times when there's an event they reach out to the west coast black theat youngest troupe member chris and chris eisenberg started with them at eight years old he's been on america's got talent all way up to the california stage to throw him out put him on the show to resell stanley who are started with thirteen about their four months doing that and there are some on cruise star going shows so this platform has bring board all of these people and it's amazing talent and let's be fair it's all due to your leadership and your skill and talent and weeks running marvin gaye prince of soul and i'm not sure when this show will air so that may not be still running but if it is i hear that mazing it is a big hit for a local guy showed wrote it plays marvin gaye have all of this phenomenal nuances and voice that he just bloomed the community away with this role so very happy about well nate and i could probably sit here and talk all day and i just want everybody please come out the band  wise for both the west coast black theater troupe best for the van ways a foundation we need your help yeah because there are a number at the west coast 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we're really glad that you're here to join us and julia and betty have been taking the office by storm so but we want to mention a few other shows that we have coming up we have the arts alliance awards and the sarasota cultural arts  cultural and arts alliance is having their awards show here every year and that's on october the twentieth and it's free to the public and every year they give away awards for management and creativity and all sorts of different things and sometimes the the have presentations of different groups the ballet has performed here and and nate jacobs his term has performed so please if you feel like it come on down and see the arts alliance awards on october twentieth and then october twenty seventh we had that one of the most fascinating groups we had last year was shine young it was an amazing dance performance and this time they're bringing an orchestra to perform for everybody much of the bugle and that's october twenty seven and then a couple of shows that we hadn't gotten a chance to talk about we just announced kenny rogers christmas show we had kenny rogers last year wasn't he wonderful as wonderful as one and he's so funny right now he's on a commercial is with lady antebellum i love them and i know me too and to scott is well known in her own right she's a famous songwriter and country singer and she sings along with dolly parton and reba mcentire and with kenny rogers for a long time that's linda davis right linda davis ok and so we're really glad to have them here on never twenty nine and also in the country vein we've announced the time jumpers and they are these all the shows that we've talked about from frampton are on sale right now and the time jumpers are with vince gill been skill was here last year and did an incredible show and about this time last year i went to nashville and i can still see vince gill a very small club when he's in nashville folks he goes and plays at this little club maybe three or four hundred people at the most and you know sort of kind of a honky tonk and the time jumpers are like thirteen players and they play this amazing country music and you know all going back to the roots and everything and is part of that group and so we announced that the night of the vince gill concert sold several hundred tickets and so that show is coming up on february eighth and then we have other mcdonald and audra mcdonald one of your favorite one of my favorites in fact i was talking to nate jacobs about it during the break because author of course is on broadway currently doing lady day at emerson's bar and grill which i had the chance to see when i was in new york and she was here before audra has won six tony awards nobody has done it someone else had actually won six but one was a lifetime achievement she actually won for best actress in a play best supporting actress in a in a play best actress in a musical best supporting actress in a musical plus you know a repeat of two of them it's not been done member all that well i've been to most of these shows and she you know she's in her forty's and of course she's she's a popular television actress too she was five years in private practice and  she's just one of the nice and of course when she was here the last time that she was here we went to new york right after that and when she won best actress in a musical for porgy and bess you know and she's just you just can't believe audra mcdonald so the other mcdonald is here on march the twenty second and then we announced another funny lady didn't we not yes we did the favorites someone with red hair oh yes kathy griffin kathy griffin takes no prisoners so you know no prisoners you on september thirteenth all of the shows we have not announced all of the shows and i can tell you there are at least three really big shows coming in october and november that we haven't announced yet and i'm really i want to tell you today i really really do but i can't i know last year julie announced a really really really popular show before she was supposed to and let me tell you i got in so much trouble with the new york agent that's so this year they won't ever let me an where we have all the shows going on sale which is for broadway that's jersey boys and camelot and jersey boys will have eight shows and then flashdance and sister as directed in memphis just an incredible season and them now go now and then we also have orchestra going on sale and the boston pops and st petersburg and then one of my favorites brian stokes mitchell is coming with the cincinnati pops holiday show it's all we can do to pronounce at half time and that's april twenty eighth will attack us twenty second and then we have one on september twenty sixth summer so you know adrian ray ray is one of my favorites actually i've never seen solar coaster so they will become one of my favorites is one of my favorites he's a country star and he was here when it rained one day so we ended up inside on the main stage and my goodness he was handsome like crazy so friday first they start around four thirty five o'clock you could come sit out on the grass or bring a blanket or chair and just have a darn good time yeah it was great and julie i would love to  say goodbye to you you've been such a wonderful person thirty think you want to say to our viewers that have been so loyal to us over the last few her rights do i mean i just want to think everybody and sarasota and manatee county for coming to the van ways to all and for all the support that you give all of us here we really really appreciate all your patronage and i hope to see you all at some of the shows because i'll be back