band ways all and we're here to talk about some of our great shows but we have a treat we have just added a new show we have it so new i didn't actually get the details yet i think you have the insights people are right i'll tell you it is melissa  coming to join us and she will be here on november twenty third and i love melissa etheridge she is a real rock and chick she and she has she's releasing a new album and tickets are going on sale and probably by the time the show airs they will be on sale and so you can get them either at on the phone at nine five three three three six eight or also through our website w w w ben ways all dot org and also you can come in cardinality and i hope i said that right but i don't know alexander but i always look at opening acts as just that little bonus because you get the full show and then you get a little something special so that is fantastic we've also had some not as happy news to an you want to talk about that local favorite diana krall has had to cancel she was supposed to be playing saturday december thirteenth so call the box office change your tickets or refund all that you know what you can either get away fund or you can get an on line credit and we should tell everyone the reason diana has cancelled her entire tour is she's come down with pneumonia and the dr and i can't imagine why she tours all the time has twins has a husband that's a stars you know elvis costello she just must be exhausted so the strain of what they're telling us that they're going to rebook the tour april or may so but i don't have dates yet so and of course if you didn't get your ticket through the band way is all if you got it some other way you have to take it back to where you bought your ticket from but we will have diana back i promise you now let's talk about some o seventy's eighty's and currently you know he puts on a great show he does and it's he also continues to create great music so peter frampton october first they're still tickets and i said just run don't walk to the box office unless you're me can't run and then you call on the phone now and then something people don't realize and maybe some do this we have rentals that are here at the van way soul we're the home of the sarasota orchestra the sarasota ballet performs here ringling town hall as well the sarasota concert association but we have some other shows that are also coming and one of them is coming up on october sixth it's called the eve of jackie and it's a musical tribute to jackie wilson and this is the gala for the west coast black theater troupe and it's going to be a fantastic show i'm told and for all of you that want to support this really great local theater group please come and see it october sixth and i think it's going to be great fun i plan to be there and then we have one of my favorites in fact i was supposed to be on vacation this day and i'm coming back early for the hardcore yes that's hard but i am coming back to see martina mcbride and she is one of my favorite i mean she's like the caller the sleen dionne of country music and she's beautiful excellent oh my gosh she is and she is here on october sixteenth and that is a show that i would not want to miss a like i said luckily i'm not coming back from like asia or do you know i'm in fort myers i know where i'm going to be on the beach and coming back to see that show because i can't wait to see her that some additional details on that that she's going to be him to my attention yeah yeah and i've seen a couple of times and i've met him and he is so fantastically nice and he does it all he is quite the musician so that's october the seventeenth and then another rental is coming to the band ways on october twenty fourth and it's the ultimate doowop show and i think that should be great fun you can call the box office to get tickets for these shows as well and so that's one that that i think i'm going to enjoy because i don't know too much about it because it's not our show but does incredibly well here with our audiences so we're looking forward to that to explain a little more about it on the website and in the season so anybody who hasn't picked up the full season brochure stop by the chamber here ideally and buy your ticket and then the next show is for all purposes sold out however i will tell you bill maher is coming on october twenty sixth and we are sold out but what happens folks is sometimes tickets are held for the artist and many times the artist doesn't use them but we can't release them so i would check close very close to the show and see if there is a seat or two left and we also sometimes take waiting lists and we will call you when tickets if tickets do become available it doesn't happen every time but you know my contract we do hold tickets for the artist and so i would check because i can't wait to see that show that since i moved here that's all anybody's been talking about it's no surprise it's sold out but what are your ticket on sale which went really well we had we were we did nine hundred thousand dollars better than the year before in total and we did more on the on sale and so it was an incredible hit and i will tell you the biggest show of the year is obviously jersey boys jersey boys has been outselling lame is two to one and les mis was almost a total sellout so i wouldn't wait on jersey on till march i wouldn't wait on that show i wouldn't wait on audra mcdonald there's a number of them i wouldn't wait on and then we have another group which is a rental and this is called shen young orchestra and that's  seventh and i have not seen the orchestra but i have seen the show young show and it was spectacular and it was you know a troupe that performed all sorts of fantastic music and  so i can only imagine that the shine young orchestra will be of the same quality as their full production of you know with dancers and singers and you right out of china i think so yes and but again look on our website w have more details and again our phone number nine five three three three six eight or you can go to the box office or you can go online and purchase tickets but we're really looking forward to  season and i will tell you that i will be back in just a minute with one of my freight favorite sponsors that we've had here at the van ways a long time and they will be from eighty and  eighty state street parking lot may be closed but downtown businesses are still open with plenty of parking opportunities looking to enjoy all the main street has to offer to make a dash for the whole foods parking garage with plenty of upper deck covered parking taking a stroll down then look no further than the palm avenue parking garage offering clean and well lit spaces park a couple hours on the whole day and don't forget the numerous on street spaces close to all the things you enjoy so park smart park happy  sarasota make sure you're watering your lawn on the proper day in the city of serious 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you know there are several things karen wants to talk about today and the really important things because a lot of our teens and you know let's be honest adults have gotten into some bad habits with their cellphones although i will mention i have an example of the new i phone six plus and it is very large so that's exciting too but your concerns tell me about your concerns with texting and driving you have several initiatives yes  campaign is called it can wait and it's our effort to help stop texting while driving which as anybody knows just from looking out the window in their car it's a big issue it's a huge issue right  i mean there's really an addictive culture to texting and to use so we were and people just don't put their phone down when they get in their car so just to look at some numbers  each year in the u s there are roughly two hundred thousand accidents that are caused from texting while driving and these are these are needless accidents right right you know it's horrible and i can understand that because my sister has twins that were teenagers and they text all to dinner time and that at least they're you know they're just being shall we say inconsiderate but when you're texting when you're driving you can kill someone right and it happens in just an instant so what does this program do exactly well there are a couple different components but our newest social campaign is called hash tag x ok and we ask teens and really anybody who's about to drive  alert their friends and family through either texting e mail or social media with hash tag x and that signals i'm about to get into my car i won't be responding responding i won't  pausing the conversation and so it's just a quick easy way to alert friends and family that that's a great do you have to sign up for this or how does that work you just spread the word to your friends and family this is the message i'm using and it's just hash tag x there's nothing that you have to sign up for it's just being aware that you can use that as a shorthand symbol and i you know i would have to suppose that a t has done a lot of research on you know texting and driving and things like that and so how many people have responded to say that they will support this kind of campaign actually we do on our website on can wait dot com we do have an area where you complain just to say that you will not text and drive we've had more than five million people play wow right to not text and drive so many people are aware of the dangers but it still continues and particularly with teens teens the youngest drivers are the ones that are most prone to texting while driving i have a girlfriend that's not a teen that i could ask to get involved in paying but you know there is the temptation you know with our phones being every part of us but you know even with bluetooth i you know you know you're in a situation where you're not as focused but let's hope everybody does this but i know you have some celebrities that are sort of supporting this program can you tell me who they are that's right and you may have her fans and followers that she uses hash tag well that's great and then you have something else you have an eighteen t driver mode app tell us about that that's an app that anybody can download even if you have another carrier right you don't have to be an a t m to customer and what that does is it it will alert you or your friends your contacts whoever is texting you while you're driving that you're driving and you'll respond when you get to a safe place so you're not even tempted then to respond to text message oh i love that idea i love that well we're almost out of time and i wanted to ask you also have other questions but i just want you to know what a fantastic job  eighty does for education in this country and support and we really love you guys and we're so glad you're taking an active role because i would hate to see one more life lost over something as silly as this because it can wait as your slogan goes now can you tell us again what is the web site folks should go to for eighty n t and for the campaign ok well to order a phone or for any other issues related to eighteen to it's  eighteen to dot com ok and then to pledge to not text and drive or find out anymore information about texting and driving in the dangers of texting and driving it's it can wait dot com well we're going to try to put that up on the screen so that when family's and welcome back to at the van ways well that was great hearing about what the program's about texting and everything and trying to stop teenage it's so tempting i think for everybody of all ages  there you just want to answer i'm just afraid now because i use my phone as a map you know for the g p s and i of course cannot make the woman inside my phone speak to me so i'm always afraid i'm picking up my phone in some afraid a police officer is going to think i'm family is that there's a new i guess for us we're opening up one of our usual educational offering shows because the it's called otherwise known as sheila the great which is a great book it was a great book i didn't know a lot about it i have to be honest it wasn't everything but it's a very empowering book and will be to showings of it wednesday october twenty second at ten am at eleven forty five am it's recommended for grades two through six and tickets are seven dollars for everybody box that's also grades two to six grandchildren your children nieces and next homeschoolers bring them on down as we have a lot of great educational programs here at the band ways will well then we have more comedy is coming up yes capital steps yes if we don't do comedy we don't do first they have been here before and and they're all former actual aides on the hill so they know this stuff and they've seen how it works and of course i think a lot of what the politicians in washington do whether you republican or democrat lends itself to comedy quite well yet they take themselves so seriously yes they did and i would if you want to have a great time come see capitol steps on november first and i understand the localizer comedy a little bit to do so that will make it very  anything funny locally you know really i will say no more and then of course coming is the show which again is sold out but like i said before about bill maher susan boyle is coming to get oh it's amazing and the show we put it on sale in the summer and immediately sold tons of tickets her first tour to america and of course nobody will forget that gorgeous song she sang from i dreamed a dream and susan boyle but check back close to that or put your name on the waiting list that's november fifth and she's going to be a fantastic fantastic show now this one i'm really excited  don't have anything for the young people here so don't complain come down the band ways it's going to be a great concert and i don't think it matters what age you are but you know it's he is got a lot of energy he was just on i think it was the today show he was doing an outdoor concert there and he's just an amazing young man now here comes one of betsy's favorite shows evil dead the musical oh my goodness evil that talk about a show for young people as a show and i am course  but we do have a clip of it so let's take a look and see evil dead the musical so anyway november eighteenth yeah i remember that really well price for students i mean the highest priced tickets fifty dollars and it goes i believe down to fifteen so to come see evil dead the musical come bless your ears and be out yeah although i would recommend you don't chew on your neighbor but you know it's up to you know just now we have another comedian coming to tell us about wanda sykes one dislikes she is also hysterical so she's actually a little bit before evil dead so if you you know know you to get your joking out for the seriousness of into the holiday mode kind of a hard turn in the this is one of my favorite it's actually the best selling christmas group of all times mannheim steamroller is here coming here again we try to have them every other year and besides the spectacular new age music there's gorgeous films they do in the background and we've had them here rehearsing and starting their tour here and they are just amazing musicians and i'll tell you it really starts putting me in the mood for thanksgiving and christmas and i am a christmas girl i you know i have a swimmer yeah you know if you want to know me better you should see that i have more decorations of my house than macy's and get bills put together but anyway man's time steamroller is here on november nineteenth and then we're going to stay in the holiday mood because celtic thunder is coming and this year it's their symphony tour which will they've never been here with the symphony they've always had you know the irish music music with them and they will have that as well but they're going to have a complete symphony orchestra plus they've never done their holiday version so where they do their their hits as well as holiday songs so you know the theater should be all decorated and look like the holidays and i'm really looking forward to that and they are november twentieth and then we make another quick turn ok just kidding with this and this will be perfect for this because it's a dance show next it is a dance show lots of twisting and turn so you think you can dance so you think you can dance and i think i can get dance but after seeing what these folks can do i know i can dance you know nope but these are the winners of the so you current version of so you think you can dance last year it was a total sellout and i swear i thought we were in a rock concert because people have followed these kids or adults whatever it may be through the all the summer you know watching them develop and grow and people have favorites and the laughing and it's just fantastic probably american idol live tour yes absolutely absolutely so i think so you think you can dance when this airs there's hopefully will be tickets left and that is on november twenty one and then we turn right back to christmas and this show has been here for i believe fourteen years every year and every year it's a huge hit it was interesting the chairman of our board mike martell who's also the president of boar's head which is a great company located here in sarasota had never been before and he was like he came today because last year and he could not believe how incredible that show was and dave has some great guests with him this year can you share that with everybody does jonathan butler christopher cross and we every time we can't decide how to say this woman's name but my perhaps or maybe i don't know we need to get the corporate pronunciation and i will tell you jonathan butler of all the people that dave cause has brought year in and year out the one that they want to see again is jonathan butler oh yeah he does the version of little drummer boy that is just brings tears to your eyes and of course i've never seen christopher cross in person but he's done you know some great hits you know and so they'll be doing their hits plus plus holiday and then we have kenny rogers is coming but this year he's coming with his christmas show and we've had h years when he's done his hit show again the thing is with kenny he'll do both hill saying his hits so you don't have to feel if you you know come that you will miss all of the table right and then he has a special guest right now he's actually we found out more than one he has linda davis is the official special guest but he's going to have one of the local choir's with the high school choir is going to be present here in sarasota here in sarasota so one that hasn't been named yet perhaps next month will be able to reveal who that is but that will also be part of his christmas event here and that is on november twenty ninth and then we're following it with a great broadway show camelot and camelot is one of my all time favorites of course it's the story of king arthur lan music is glorious folks if ever i would leave you what to the simple folk to the last month of may on an on course the main main title song camelot and it's just such an epic thing and i will tell ladies you need to come for one reason only and maybe this pills to the gentleman to you know equal opportunity to lancelot the pictures they have sent us of lancelot the women in my office have been just passing out i don't know what you're talking about were right but they've taken a sort of more modernistic tone to camelot and the image really looks sort of looks like game of thrones to me scruffy in the best possible way so they better have that lancelot when he gets say but anyway again it's been fun bringing you our october november shows repeat for you again nine five three three three six eight as well as you can come to the theater box office meet our friendly box office staff go on the website and i do want to warn people again there are many sites that look like the band ways will site make sure it says the official site for any theater around because what happens is people buy tickets or don't buy tickets they just advertise our tickets and then they upped the price enormously and i've had this happen i had a friend of mine buy tickets for audra mcdonald and they were told reg on the fifth row they had