i marry ben saul the executive director of the theater and i'm here with chuck stevens our marketing director my cohort in crime it's good to see you again good to see you too and we really kicked off the season in style i'm sure people out there  all he did was smile at these ladies in the front rows and he was throwing them there has been that is that it was a great great opening to our season you know nice man oh he was a nice man and i hope we can get him back again soon because  it was fantastic but we've really had a lot of wonderful things happen and then we've had some you know cautionary ones are on sale didn't go off as normal because the darker me yeah hurricane that the building you know we  were survived and then we had another you know you hate to talk about sad things but we'll talk about the exciting part one of our dear board members of the band ways the foundation heard a cooney oh right passed away and heard it was an enormous and she will always be in my heart and we miss you heard wherever you are up there we really really miss she's on the trapeze she's on the drive he's ok there you go there you go but to talk about some of the shows that are coming up in november while they went back to a different format with their back to all their stars and everything and that's november third right that's at eight o'clock you know i mean when you think about october which is always my favorite month in sarasota you know we had willie in did every single time november sixteenth they tend to come every other time right and my girlfriend up north a friend of mine she's like you have to see these guys and i guess this is about eight ten years ago and they were fantastic but that's on november sixteenth but you jumped right over another one of my favorites celtic thunder i did forget about that because all you do is talk about how gorgeous those men oh yeah they know it's the night before straight no chaser it's celtic thunder and this since november fifteenth at eight o'clock and i tell you these shows will really get you in the holiday mood well if you're not i went out to walk the dog this morning and there's definitely a nip in the air was like seventy one but i'm going to get my sweaters out soo but he and i both have more ornament than anybody i know i know my nutcracker collection is and don't tell him anybody but i bought him a spectacular not cracker why do i bring it into a big new house because there's no pl to display room in this house anyway but to get us in the mood and well i mean i must say it is that exciting but before we get to the real christmassy christmassy shows one of my bands from great guy to i met the band i had them i booked them for a private party here in sarasota a couple years ago and they're great guys and that is nov eighteenth and three dog night is always a fun fun evening and after seeing like chicago and willie nelson well i'm really in the mood so you're in chicago fans are going to love coming through and there's still some seats available but it is selling very yeah and number one the things that i wanted to mention that we do traditionally every year on black friday which is the day after thanksgiving we have a great big sale and we can't let you in yet with what the shows are because we haven't really worked that out but we always put a number of shows on a big sale we've created a show you and it's between about twenty and twenty five different shows that we're going to suggest to you at this point and it's really not just black friday black friday weekend because it's through saturday and sunday right into monday and so there's they'll be a lot of terrific bargains for people to look and july so that will help me at all i think you come to enough shows as it is but anyway after that you know we go right into one of our shows that you know if somebody in my office is running around can tell you dave has that year for talent yes and then one thing before we watch the video i should mention is i was shocked dave now has white hair did that mean that he's been coloring his hair all the he has a great sense of the season and i can tell you in this world today we need a lot of holiday spirit right and then we have coming up we three kings with the irish tenor show and that is on saturday december second at eight o'clock eight o'clock and again these guys you know ronan tynan and finbar they are tacklers singers and they will sing a smattering of their irish music but their christmas me oh my god a white christmas is just drops dead and then he sings a celtic carols example my gosh i've been to ireland three times that i really really love it and then a new show coming for the holidays think it's thrilling for us all to see her it's going to be a very intimate in the theater but we have a little video will be here on sunday december third a seven o'clock show so you can all come and have a grand time and then the last show before our break we're going to talk about is a show that we laugh and laugh about music you know mary booked for one performance on the fifth it's sold out almost instantaneously so there was another data available and she brought it back on the subway to december first and we'd load the show and do the show love the show out it goes somewhere else and this is the back to yo yo hurricane season is upon us and city of sarasota residents are urged to have an emergency plan and be prepared before the storm make sure your disaster supply kit is well stocked with water food medicines extra batteries for flashlights and portable radios first aid kit and supplies for infants children and pets electricity may be out for several days so be sure to get cash and fill your car with gas also know if you live in a flood zone and be aware of evacuation routes near issue having a plan and being prepared to help keep you and your family safe in the event of an emergency for hurricane preparedness guide and information on 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unless they've been voted off since we type you know we started taping this stuff on the island when we came over here so yeah you know that so this is going to be so much by and they are incredible they're on a thirty one thirty tour they've sold ten million records and let's see a little bit ninety eight  god i grew up with the show that's how long ago the charlie brown christmas special on television has been converted into a live on stage production it is wonderfully sort of a number of years back in boston it's good for the kids but you know what if you're my age and you saw it in the sixty's and it just brings back caterer madison who does so many fantastic things your wife and i are going to a wine tasting dinner soon but they're having a special christmas lunch and right that day and phantom will be here santa and this is a i'm going to be there they're going to be going  children up to have a picture taken with your own camera so it gives you a great opportunity to have the kids have a picture with santa before they see charlie so it's a great day at the band way so you'll have lunch at the beautiful bay for an out and you'll see this you know and the kids can get some fresh air i about it real ready for us they have a blooper reel they embarrass me with every year but i think that's going to be a wonderful show right december seventeenth sunday at two thirty come to the lunch before a perfect day for the it's really tough but i love the holidays from the thing is over the years when i got here in the van ways i had no christmas decorations at all at all i'm like how can this be and so over the years every year i've shopped a little bit and got you know reason is that i love christmas shows because they just put you in the mood and you know when it's time to for me to fly home i go home to pennsylvania every year to see my family i really i'm an ol in a jolly mood you know so you're staying in your about family my my only daughter and son in law and my granddaughter two years old is going to spend christmas here in sarasota and their only daughter to sarasota is coming in as well that's just happening from seattle so she's flying in as well so i guess it's going to have a whole family the dog doesn't know what's going to happen with the first year and i fell in love with it neil burger who puts together all these fantastic cirque shows and actually their home based over on the other coast and neil does spectacular christmas shows again this is one to work for a ballet company in pittsburgh ballet theater and they would do not crack or every night for a month we did five weeks of it in boston at the boston so do you feel i could you know you could go out to sugar plum fairy right now yeah i could jump there you go that's that's the lady that makes the cake right yeah yeah so our last holiday show as far as christmas goes is a christmas carol which has become a tradition here and you know it's amazing because it's always very close to christmas twenty first second third and it always sells out it's like the parents take a deep breath and say it's time to relax the tree as a postcard it is it's just so pretty it's just it's a chore anything to do with the birth of the theater caravan i've seen a lot of the right you know and and because i'm lucky enough to had not seen it the last two or three years i saw half of it last year my problem is always been that it's been i've had to fly out right all this time because it's on friday december twenty second right and i'm not flying home till the twenty third the way kids will love as well as as parents and it's just this really sets you in the movie i mean it just you suddenly forget the frenzy of running around the shopping putting up trees and lights and just clumsy down and brings the true spirit of christmas actually and then the last holiday show we have which celebrates another holiday i can't believe we're talking about new year's eve already is a salute to vienna where the new york times or the new years conservationist yeah i was lucky enough to go to vienna a couple of years ago and the producer of this show got me into to see some of some of the vienna opera house and then see some of the operas over there i became friends with the soprano and i just think this is a fantastic show poor for the holidays twenty two years of this it's a sarasota truth and it's sort of like marks the end of a holiday spirit season and you just move on now into the rest of the of our season it's a great way to close out the holiday it is and it's on january third at seven o'clock and we have a little snippet right on the phone nine five three three three six eight visited us anyways either or and we can't tell you how much we wish you a very happy thanksgiving we'll be back in december to talk a little more about you know the holiday spirit a number of shows coming in january you're going to you're only eighteen i know twenty eighteen but we're so grateful we all lived through that hurricane and all of the things that going on in the world and we