yeah there you go and the nice thing about that is because the tourists are so important to to business in the city in the county and also you know we have such support from of course our six month residence as well and our largest population of course  people that live here like you and i do all year round but what an honor that was and then we've been named for the fourth time the number one performing arts hall in the two thousand and six category in north america  that there's a lot of theater spokes in the two thousand seat caterpillar a we do we have three thousand seats yeah there you go well then then we're competing with some bigger theaters but you know in bigger populations but there are theaters that are in major cities in our category that we've we've won and i think it has a lot to say you know when you think about tourist season which is high season you know it's not just us i mean the ballet is here in ringling town halls or so the orchestra and all of these groups combined as well as so  and they were so gracious last night they had such a ball at this year's season which i believe we don't have the official numbers yet but it's going to be the largest surplus this history of the theater and it's really a testament to i think what a great mclaughlin is the gallant she was amazing and she was all of her folks can the canada and they were so nice and she was so great but jay leno we had the night after he finished thirty six years yes on the on the tonight show and so we were the eggs  timing couldn't have been better you can't get any better than that because you know with david letterman you know and in his room and everything these these things don't happen very often the foundation does such a great job of putting a party they really do went together but you know i got together the party and jay was great and you know so it's really a wonderful thing because that raises money for education department but we put some shows already on sale for next year and even though you know it's still in this fiscal year but we you know american idol i'm almost looking like i finalist this year coming in and they're going to be singing off against each other during that period i believe will be audience voting the way there has been some other issues to pick the winner of that particular night the number seven runner up is opening the show and going to open up the  for the entire event it sounds great seats are going quickly even in the middle of summer and if you have to lie in certainly and then we're closing the hall for about six weeks where we're going to renovate the ladies room put in a newer christer shell and different things so and see american idol tickets are on sale you can get them online or w w w then ways and i start and also come to the box office we're in summer hours right now and then are you could get them online right and mary maybe saying we're closing campaigns and i know that we're way up on subscriptions which is exciting very exciting the new the new respondents this year is amazing it's the largest new were sponsored the renewals are coming in very heavily if you are a subscriber start rio you're within a one month window now to save your seats and save your opportunity so get those subscriptions in quickly please you can do with us anyway and to the shows that will be part of our variety subscription but are on sale now the first when we should talk about is that just one sales straight no chaser right and broadway subscription we have all sorts of different packages you can save up to twenty percent and just to give you a few quick highlights we also have for orchestra the philadelphia orchestra  they're beautiful but what i'm the most excited about this i love broadway is we have the biggest touring show out right now the book of mormon but it's really a new booking for us and we're really thrilled about it it is hilarious and i'm astounded at everybody coming up to the online four different packages and each one of the would include book of mormon so you can pick and choose among your other shows and add and subtract as you want yeah and then i'm going to run down just quickly the rest of the broadway season we have the last time it's out on tour quartet about the youth of this night when elvis presley and the cast all met the infamous night and that's march twenty sixth we have a matinee and evening and then we also have a bunch of specials and we have one hundred seven  i think this is one that i can't wait for linda eder is one of all of our favorites here in sarasota and linda eder is coming with robert only and linda is famous for having been the star to which i write and this is the guy start packing for my god we're not yes we do checks worried but in a minute i will be back with you with our gas from the jewish federation perfect this is anthony anthony is wanted every a half hour 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 have 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 close i've been practicing let me tell you and just how he is the director of community community relations with the jewish federation of sarasota manatee you changed your name a while ago didn't you used to just be the jewish federation no it was in fact a while ago it used to be the sarasota manatee jewish federation ok because i knew it was some change yeah yeah now we are the jewish federation of sarasota manatee and the jewish federation for short i will say is has been such a great sponsor van ways all and i mean the jewish audience is such strong supporters of the arts i sure you would agree you took the words out of my mouth goodness you know and i'm so grateful about that and this year you're sponsoring this coming year  which is i'm really excited about this because we had the hype of symphony before and you folks from the sponsor and they were amazing and i was telling just before that i so want to go to israel on a trip at some  point but because that's one of the you know my bucket list you know i've been to africa and all sorts of all over the world that's one of the places i think you would like to talk a little bit about your mission because it's so important to our community and you do so many things for everybody in the community i just hear about you everywhere i go well our mission is to save jewish lives enhanced jewish life in sarasota manatee israel and around the world and that's a big mission it's a pretty big mission and i think that you know i think we do pretty well especially with our community partnerships like with van weasel bringing israel to sarasota and manatee he is such a huge accomplishment for us and like you said the jewish community is huge huge supporters of the arts so i always have been and i'm so grateful and i think it's a fantastic job because you not only do things with the arts i know you were involved at one point we did a show my heart's in the by hearts in the suitcase and then bracing our differences brought it back it's such a special show for children and you were involved with that as well and it's such a great story yeah any any time we can bring jewish culture history holocaust history to our beautiful little community we take that opportunity i know and i think it's a really and special one you talked about your community efforts what other groups are you involved with here in sarasota manatee where you mentioned  we for instance we just had a really great one man show called i'm a stranger here myself and afterwards we did a panel discussion on anti semitism so we are able to to bring in those incredible artistic expressions and add in things that are important to our mission and especially this coming year we're going to be tackling israel and anti semitism and what's your message on the what  things do you want to get across to the community about israel and to the we may be present don't know it's not right there in the forefront right well as many people may know in the past three to five years specifically in europe anti semitism has been on the rise and you know what we like to say is that we're not going to be the jews of nine hundred thirty three any longer we're not going to sit back and say no it's not going to affect us because it is affecting us and we want to stop it in its tracks so we want to bring it to the forefront of people's attention and and partnering with organizations that bring in pieces of art that have to do with anti semitism whether it was from the y m our area error or or currently we can always translate it to what's happening today and i think what's great is the van ways will is diversity because you know whether i'm looking at bringing in the show you know  from it's called taj express you know with the indian culture and we do things with the chinese culture and oh my goodness those people in ireland are so prolific they put out so many fantastic artists but i think it's fabulous to bring artists from israel because they really have so much to share and you know we're in support of all cultures and we're i think of in ways all as all arts are we're in support of peace i know  art and expression and dialogue bring people together from all walks of life and that's that's really what we need we need people to to talk and to dialogue and then we can have a true lasting peace now do you have members of  your federation that are not jewish i mean is it open to all folks in all walks of life certainly do which i think is fantastic in fact i when i'm working a lot with our israel advocacy and as a part of that we work with the christian community who are pro israel and that triples our numbers of pro israel advocates and the christian communities especially here in sarasota and manatee are our best friends when it comes to supporting israel and making sure that people know that israel does have the right to exist and i think you know the fact that you take such a large view of not just partnerships here in sarasota but around the world and as i said i think we're all dedicated to peace and to and that's one of the thing the arts really does is it brings to the forefront so much of that expression that there can be joy and peace in the world where can people get in touch with you do you have a website or do it is the jewish federation dot org and if you're interested in israel advocacy we also have sarasota loves is row and fantastic and i like i said i can't wait to to visit there this year i'm going to the and and also croatia and i'm you know i think when you travel you get a much better sense of the world and have a much more open mind well our time is go so quickly but i just want to thank you for the years and years and years of support that we've gotten from your organization and to say you know so how how proud we are to be associated with people that love the arts so much and thank you we cherish the friendship great and we will be back in just a minute at the end ways 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 it this is anthony anthony is wanted every yes and he is wanted everywhere will almost everywhere because recently when anthony went with his parents to find a new place to live 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'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 to millions status or disability called at one eight hundred six six nine nine seven seven seven or visit hud dot gov slash fair housing fair housing is your right the american league of broadway producers and it's all the people from the road all over the country and all the producers of the broadway show and every probably shows that we get together once a year to hash out our differences try to get better deals and learn about the new processes go to rome learn about everything and cut your ideas so your ideas from each other because you don't have to invent the wheel and also it's a great time to see the new shows you know that are coming up for the tony and the start out by saying i saw my first night there i went to see a show called the audience and it starred helen mirren dame helen mirren and she comes on stage and she just i mean you're in the presence of an oscar winner right  she's a star elegance i mean two nights earlier she'd been at the met gala looking like and she plays queen elizabeth and all her audience is with the prime ministers from like winston churchill right there maggie thatcher and she's just brilliant because at one point she's twenty five years old the next scene she's eighty you know it just it was wonderful and then she came and spoke to all of us which was marvelous i mean the entire audience just in the feet i think the entire time we were always so in awe you know we are and she was so kind about the broadway theater and just fantastic and then i went to see on the twentieth century with peter gallagher and probably one of my favorite actresses of all time kristen tend to love her and she's gorgeous marty madcap and i am hoping she will also win the tony this year she when she was one before for a not for wicked but she won for your good man to dry ground right now you know and i know you saw a show called fun home that's getting a lot of us news on home another tony nominee for best musical all of the actors and actresses seem like we're nominated as well so wonderful shows it's a comedy it's a dark comedy wonderful music some revelations which i can't possibly but it's all about william shakespeare's time but they play william shakespeare like he's a rock star and it's all these theatre jokes and if you love the theatre go see something rotten it's hysterical now we don't have a lot of time but you saw a beautiful which i had seen before i didn't get to see it last season i was so happy to see it this year it's absolutely spectacular the woman playing carole king is carole king on stage i'm working really hard to bring that show here i want to see it very soon very soon so that's it's fantastic i saw another show that one that has so many tony nominations an american in paris who are just gorgeous gorgeous ballet choreography singing and there's certainly ties to sarasota ballet through christopher williams the choreographer and director never felt so inadequate in my entire life watching these men and women dance exclusively so many women from city ballet but they can act and sing at the same time and they made us get up and we had to sing you know there especially with great opens with the american fly because they're recreating the one nine hundred forty four look of the show so it was just wonderful doing the star spangled banner with the entire audience on their feet and then i saw the king and i with ken watanabe playing the king and of course it was at lincoln center and the big boat comes out and it's really really stunning gorgeous production and one of my favorite i guess which got terrible critical notice and also didn't get any tom and tony nominations but it's called finding the neverland and i loved it and so and then we have a lot of great conference things we got to hear anna wintour the infamous you know the editor of vogue magazine a lot but we do want to bring you real briefly we have kettle of fish coming it's our first friday fest and that is on june nineteenth get here around four thirty five o'clock right to start we go to about eight thirty nine o'clock when your chairs bring a boy and this is the way they describe it they play rock blues reggae new orleans soul the rolling jones the neville brothers august twenty one the favorite band of everybody everybody's talking about that we've had before as yesterday is yes and i hope it doesn't rain clouds to yours it rain on yesterday so i hope it's not a jinx premise there you know and there's whatever eighteen are pretty fast on the bay are free and it's perfect for the entire family all you do is bring a blanket or a chair and you know we have food vendors we have some fantastic sponsors led by hahn power the nice thing about this first show everybody can get up and dance because we have a little sort of osgood area so you dance you see this gorgeous sunset i'll be in the back of the room away from the dance you're not going to be dancing chuck not these feet i promise you if you come out and chuck and i will be leading