merry ben saul executive director and i'm here with steve baker our wonderful marketing director it's great to be here so you've finally completed a season here i know i can't believe it went so fast just to go fast you know that's the thing that always freaks me out i mean jerry seinfeld was the very first show in september i wasn't actually here so it doesn't stick in my mind but then i remember now eddie izzard was here at the beginning and lord of the dance and that's correct you know and then you think of all the shows that were in people they never wanted to leave the family so they were like can we just stay here for the rest because you know that they had a chance to have barbecues out on the lawn with their kids and their dogs and they had a great time to troll sarasota trolley that is so wonderful that tammy hauser had them on and they had a great time learning more about sarasota and then they got the key to the city from the mayor but any other favorite shows old david foster say didn't know what to expect i saw in l a and he was just doing company kind of quiet and yeah and this time he was speaking about his stories about all the things he did of course i had known because i had gone to budapest with him and backstage to say hello you know every mind him that we had met and he was face timing with katherine mcphee who was in england at the time she was in london doing waitress which we have coming up right and she's like oh in there so you can say and that makes us happiest of all is right it's wonderful got that show is here but you're absolutely right and i missed a few this year because i it was out with me surgery but you know i was sitting at home then thinking oh my hundred of us and now there's like close to a thousand people and it's a chance to see you know all the new broadway shows and they have incredible sessions on the cutting edge marketing techniques and also great they've had all sorts of topics from labor issues on through you know government dealing with lobbying for the n e a and things like that and wonderful it's a wonderful time you're going to get to meet all of you the people that are  you enjoyed this conference and i'm fortunate because i'm go to the shows to see what we can bring to the van ways all bets my major function and i also want the marketing team to see the show so you can better talk about them pesca you're going to get to see come from away and beautiful of a lot of them and for me they're holding a special performance of to kill a mockingbird ticket that's true this year with jeff daniels and it's been in the news a lot and so i'm also going to get to see there's a new musical about the will be a great time and hopefully we'll pick up some more shows for the band ways on looking forward to it good and you're right it's one thing to read the copy but it's another to first hand witness what you saw and when you see come from the way it's a show that you really need to see to be able to talk about because we're going to talk about more about it in our later segment but it's so incredible to see because so many they play so many different parts and you're going to feel a whole different as cool about it once you see it  first we have the summer actually it's after the broadway play conference but we have friday fest friday fest how do we do friday filing with one of those last year because i started in august and it was it was great it's quite an experience is right right it's and for those of you haven't been it's an outdoor concert series that's on the lawn next to the band ways hole and it's set with that gorgeous sunset and of course you know that's sort of the precursor to the bigger of the bay project coming along that's right but we have four of them and when i first came to town they were all jazz and you know i thought gee we really need to do something for all music fans so we have different genres and the first one is a big night out crowd tell us a little bit back and we so enjoy working with them and then cool today also coming coming on as a sponsor again now we switch to country and this is on my birthday july the nineteen rebel heart heart yes yes country rock i understand and i love that kind of music five members and they're from breynton so they're red from this area i love the fact that these are a local band i do and you know i enjoy the music and this is a great band to dance to and then the next for the rolling stones and i remember you know going to that concert because we night in the stadium parking lot because it was one of these things where you rushed in and everything in our power was amazing but reverend barry has that same rock and  that feel and they do all sorts of covers of earth wind and fire and and it's a great day on august sixteenth and then every alibis what a name i don't know about that is what easy i guess are from tampa bay and they want a lot of z with blues soul and rock how can you go wrong with sal over the place so that it's great but and that's that is something that we really enjoy but i know we will be back soon with one of our new hotels from sarasota with their director of sales marketing and we're going to be talking about the local scene and where people go to have lunch and dinner in this hotel and it's the new sarasota modern we'll be but some people still do wish i wish not during yeah those items people think they can recycle but shouldn't like styrofoam and plastic bags and a lot of other things that should just go into the garbage this pizza box no that pizza box has grease and food tribes this whole chain no that can actually go right in the garbage is 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 car 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 visit our city website at sarasota f l dot gov backslash b card smart or call us at one four one three six five seven six five one half of the city in our environment thank you for recycling  sarasota sarasota modern yes ma'am thank you very much it's great to be here well tell me a little bit about the sarasota modder when did it open and what kind of hotel we opened our doors december eleventh of two thousand and eighteen in kind of a soft opening mode we just had our grand opening on march twenty first so it's very exciting was it was a big party and it was it was it was a great night for us were eighty nine room luxury boutique hotel i love boat hotel they make you feel flexibility to be independent and to kind of put your own spin you know and like with like a you know a lot of the marriott brands very cookie cutter ish and we're not we are very unique property and so what do you have in addition to beautiful rooms do you have pools or do you have a restaurant what what else do we have so we we have a three pools yes we have a lap pool and then we have a cool dark pool which never goes above sixty five degrees very refreshing in the summer oh my gosh and then we have an oversized hot tub which is the same size as the cool down pools which is it's just you monger us then we also have a pool bar called the juice bar just right along the pool area and then you get alcohol chef is jennifer hoff she is from gordon ramsay's hell's kitchen season thirteen she was a finalist her food is incredible and he didn't you know beat her down she still was a finalist and they still talk to this day oh that's great right that's great are a certain kind of theme on the food or is it eclectic or it is eclectic where we change our menus often so each one of our menus are numbered one right road been open three months we're on menu twenty one so the menu is kind of always always changing he dishes stay the same but the menu does change and it keeps it fun keeps it fresh yeah yeah are you open for breakfast lunch dinner breakfast lunch and dinner all meal periods we have room service and our the area where are you coming to us from my last hotel the general manager myself the general manager drummer coonass and myself came from a camp in hotels and restaurants which is a company that specializes in luxury boutique hotels and we actually can't both came from the same property so it kind of came as a package deal the owners and caught a family he's the owner he brought us in and we've been working on the property for almost a year so we kind of saw the whole thing get built up and through where really no long in puerto rico and after i was done with that i started my career and hospitality oh that sounds fantastic i think the coast guard is one of the best defenses this country has and the guys and girls that work there yeah it's a big difference you know working in an office versus jumping out of helicopters and so yeah yeah it's a little bit a little bit different but each has its own challenges yeah but when we need people you know it must be the most important you know site is that helicopter coming in to help you yes but you know as you said in the hotel industry i know you know because we have a lot of stars and we have a lot of companies that come and stay at hotels that things can happen there to force just like in a theater you know you never know what could possibly happen  and the coast guard in the hotel it's kind of simmers is twenty four seven right it's never closed you never you never truly offer anything could have absolutely right do you do anything with the local population is there any state patients or things like that we have a florida resident nonprofit and have a nonprofit night at the hotel no wonder and like last week we had the humane society and our pool area is filled with about twenty dogs oh my god yeah and the bunch got adopted so is  that's he's great at what he does and he that's really his only job because it's very important for our brand to be in the city and of the city that we really want to be of for you right in the middle of the art scene can you tell our viewers you know where exactly to find you i've seen the nine rooms so you know you i look forward to putting some of our our stars and a hotel that big great me too and i must say everybody that plays on that stage is a star to me right right right so anyway thank you so much all my wish you and the hotel the greatest of success here in sarasota it's a wonderful community thanks so much for having me early appreciate it ok and we'll be back in a minute  they're all around families with children going about their daily lives ariens heart problems trying to get around with a toddler sometimes a family needs a little 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 to december i'm worried but it's escaped margaritaville still with all of jimmy buffet's great songs it's a broadway show and it's on december the second and we're looking forward to it and then we have a show i've been trying much it's it's just while i'm going to see this to new york that's right you haven't seen broadway you know but yeah the book of mormon it's here general seven to twelve it was here once before about four or five years ago sold out couldn't get a ticket people were fighting over tickets and it is outrageous it's funny it's certainly more of an adult show you know this is not one for the kids you know not the little kids i say one or the older kid but this is outrageously funny and i love it it's an international sensation as it is it is sleaze and it won gosh more tony awards than most shows that i can think of you know so we're looking forward to having that and then waitress we were talking about this before that's right so we had a great subscription party event the other you know a couple weeks ago and we said all of our subscribers and our new friends that came home with a little apple pie strike did we do that bandstand the men coming back from world war two that's right and i know you know i heard all sorts of stories because my dad was a veteran and this is about the men coming back with music and the dancing in this one it looks like a lot of  dancing and i think it's going to be an enormous hit here in sarasota and then it's here february four and five and then we have my favorite show of all time to oh really what i've seen a lot more than you  but the music in les miserables is stunning i mean i just hear one of the songs and i can guarantee you i could sit through all eight shows that are going to be here at the van way so it is it is breathtaking  it has a brand new production you know covering mcintosh when he puts together tours he does it all out it goes all out and this is a beautiful production and it's going to be here for a week february twenty sixth to march one and let's just share a little of the music all right sign me up like that and then the next show it is a favorite of mine too it's called the color purple and i was fortunate enough years and years ago when it first came out oprah winfrey was a producer on the tour and you know we were at the probably we get to meet a lot of stars so i mean meryl streep that miller and you know all these things but i can tell you when oprah came to our luncheon and talked to us all these jaded broadway people were like oh my goodness and so she was involved with that and this however is the brand new production it won the two thousand and sixteen tony i saw it on broadway it is stunning and they do it very minimalistic and i just love it and that is here sadly only for one performance on march the tenth and we have a all right tell me about the next hour of american in paris it's a great great production i haven't seen it but i do know the movie i've seen the movie twenty times i saw the broadway show and it was great i mean it's gershwin you know all those gorgeous songs and dancing and totally different kind of dancing there is right beautiful ballet in it and it's a stunning production and people are just going to loved and it's here on march sixteenth and then a bronx tale for another show i adored you know i try not to bring in the shows i don't you know but a bronx tale it's really they say it's when jersey boys meets you know west side story it's right because it's about singing on the show for a long time and you see as a restaurant still he done i was telling you what i went to see a bronx tale we went to this restaurant that night so i don't like i was really in the mood sadly he had been there the night before but you know he  a great restaurant recommended in new york and that is april twenty one twenty two and then the next show is the one that i really absolutely the most psyched about for the season i saw it on broadway you're going to see it yes we talked about it before  come from away right right it's amazing story seven thousand people diverted to one small town in newfoundland and i know these people take care of miley yeah and it was so amazing when we had our subscriber event we had a woman come up to the box office and say how moved she was about this because she had actually been one of the families really close to some of these people because on nine eleven i remember where i was i was in st thomas and that day they took all the cruise ships they sent them out of the harbors but they also had to get the planes out of the air and they diverted seven thousand people as you said to gander newfoundland and this tiny town had to house all kinds of international cultures and babies and animals it was crazy and this show it's it's a cast that plays all these different parts and it's fantastic so anyway that is one of the best broadway scene since i think we've ever had you know i can't wait i can playing and i mean and it's great to see both of them because you can look at the different styles as a career and your music person yeah so you get into that so you're really excited about the yeah absolutely and then we have some broadway special show that i'm so excited about the choir of man i saw in scotland are fringe festival last summer and this is a great show and i think it's best if you can see it for yourself and that makes for a great season i hope for everybody a we'll be announcing you know all the the stars and variety shows late in august and that will be going on sale with single tickets but right now you can buy subscriptions to these and how can people do that just play actually calling the box office at nine five three three three six eight or going online to look at it but i think calling the box office is the best best best way to you know talk to we can you can download a brochure will send her a brochure and it's really a fantastic thing to be here at the van way of salt and we want to thank you our audience for spending a fantastic year with us and being such loyal viewers of all the shows we do and we'll se