well we now have almost all of our single tickets are on sale and the lion king is going on sale on november the second now of course you know you may this may be running a little later than that but i  run do not stop go to the box office call us right lion king three weeks almost the whole month of march it's amazing we can't wait this is going to be tremendous as they say yeah you've never done a big broadway show like no you never never but i've been to lincoln three times with my kids at the new amsterdam theater in new york city so they want to see it now that they're adult they're adults and to see you know i i took my niece when she was eight or nine and i'll still remember she like the lion king but  favorite thing was watching the elevators in our buildings going up and down you know they were that glass elevators now i will bring her and she will really love it you know but kids do the strangest things but it is a show for everyone it's not just for kids it's it's really quite frankly a show that can appeal to you on all levels and it disney has done a brilliant job i don't think anybody's equaled the artistry of the lion king since that's true that's why it's a number one show in the world guess people have seen it ninety billion people so that's that's that's bigger than some countries but anyway and then we've announced recently some new shows and i can tell you folks i have a couple of them are going to be announced very shortly but we just announce time but you know it's different there's an energy and i think that's why they do it in front of a live audience there is and there's just something kinetic about that show it has and let me tell you the men aren't bad to look at either or they want to know i find it very hard to shop for men you know women i could shop for all day long but the nice thing is to get gift certificates here at the van ways that makes it very easy so you just get a gift certificate for a certain amount and then they can choose whatever show we have to do yeah and that's nice because that's really that tailor made present for someone so you can get those by giving us a call or come into the box office and and it's a really special gift for someone you know and sometimes somebody will say i want to i want a gift certificate for my parents for a specific show but the nice thing is say they can't go on that we can use it for something else well we have added an additional show to the mannheim steamroller show and we've added a matinee because it's almost sold out and to be honest with you it almost sold out on the on sales correct it's not you know it's a thing that i think it's on november seventeenth and it is one of my favorite shows it kicks off the season for me every time it's here they have the list films that go with it and the video and then the music is spectacular davis is a wonderful job he does he came here a couple of holy yeah yeah and so we have a two o'clock matinee where you'll find the best tickets and then we have an eight o'clock show that there may be a couple of tickets left to record yeah so we're going to do a black friday sale as we always do and so you're sort of learning all of our traditions and i think steve is going to spice it up for us a little bit as we go along with some new ideas for but the black friday sale and we'll be announcing which shows will go on sale will happen obviously on the friday after thanksgiving and continued that weekend and we always have a lot of great shows that are available for people so watch watch the newspaper in the television and will be letting you know soon about that but let's talk about some other christmas shows are absolutely red i should  so anyway dave cause is coming with this tour and this show has has gotten even more special for me because last year i went to two over to hungary to see a special for here and then who is such a favorite on that show is jonathan butler and so he is of course from south africa and then mindy of bear is right is a pop blues saxophonist and singer and then we have  thirty did you enjoy his piano playing yeah are you going to like try to play the piano with him when he's over course there and then also we have brian wilson coming up and he's presenting their christmas album and i happen to own that album can't wait and it's december the levon at seven thirty they're also going to do some of his non holiday hits as well as some from his he had a solo album called all i want for christmas i'm looking forward to that it's true it's going to be great and then we have  show that we pretty much have every year a christmas carol is coming and that's december the sixteenth at six o'clock have you seen the depressed theater caravan i have but i'm really looking forward to the boar's head carol i know they're the sponsor but i don't know what that's all about oh my god about the turkey right well and the boys had the boar's head is the family sponsored it's a family night and things like that so i'm i'm looking forward to that and then we have our last show to talk about for the holidays before we go to a break is rudolph the red nosed reindeer and this is a live version of the beloved beloved story my friend rudolph right and it's been on television for over fifty years this is the most continuously running christmas show and now it's been transformed from a t v type of presentation to on the stage so all these characters come to life and it's great that it's on a weekend night and it's at six thirty at night and so last year when we did a christmas show we did charlie brown's christmas madison's are our wonderful caterer that also does medicine speyside is having a special early dinner for kids and their family and last year santa arrived with special presents for the kids they came to the to the dinner and we it was really great because they had grilled cheese sandwiches and they did smores that they made right over you know the kids didn't get to put them on the fire but the caterers did and it was such a joyous night and so i really think that's a fantastic a fantastic event so get your rudolph the red nosed reindeer ticket i literally would have gone home for christmas where i live in full of my family lives in philadelphia but i wanted to stay for rudolph so come on folks come out and see some of our holiday cheer and really put you in the mood and we will be back in a minute with a very special two thousand and eighteen the time change will also apply to any special community redevelopment agency meeting which is held as part of a regular city commission meeting all city commission meetings will continue to air live on access to our soda t v as well as being available to go on line every day forty four people in the u s die from drug overdose but they don't have to do in florida if you're trying to save the life of another person you're protected from prosecution by the good samaritan veterans day and it's our chance in america to thank the brave people who protect us and that have served so that we have haven't had to go todd before you have this job are you a veteran have you served i was in the army for five years oh my gosh thank you so much for your service thank you did you spend it here in this country where you were broader jory of my time was here i spent a little over a year in iraq oh boy i bet you have stories to tell that maybe i shouldn't ask questions about what led you to this career i grew up i've always been really patriotic my dad was in the army mine two cousins in the military and so as long as i can remember i wanted to be a soldier you know  actually joined the army at seventeen wow and planned on being in there for life but things happened and couldn't continue but i met my wife in the army she was in the army as well so that's amazing we joke around you know military issued wife and here we were still together and i think we're going to better in service to she does a little bit she helps she volunteers she doesn't she's a stay at home mom takes care of our so but she does volunteer and gets involved a lot of must be really really special how long have you been here in sarasota i moved here in august of two thousand and five when we got out of the army and we've been here since my wife was born and raised here so we're all really because i was going to ask you why there is so to this so we move back here well now i know we have a program that people may or may not be aware of we have a bunch of outreach programs and one is our veterans outreach program where we hope to be able to distribute because we rely on grants but free tickets to the active active and veterans and their families how has that worked for our veterans around the area has that been a good these tickets for veterans and the feedback i got was just awesome you know so many of our veterans are never really gone to please are alive and i'm very very right so we were able to even comedy shows were on their you know good good  i was getting all kinds of grief people were taken there too and it's just it's awesome because i'm up to a different whole different culture that's great and if anybody out there would like to make a donation to the van will foundation and  say it's for our veterans outreach program i'm sure we would be grateful for that we apply for grants and hopefully you know we're able to do a lot more but we're talking today not only because it's november but we have an amazing show about the military and it's an actor and i don't know how much you know about this but it's an actor that i have adored stephen lang he plays the bad guy the sort of over the top military guy and avatar in fact they're going to be doing parts i think two three four coming up but this is a one man show where he raised eight medal of honor winners and we would love to take stand any of the military or active or veterans and their family at fifty percent off and obviously whatever we can offer in tickets to through the military access program will do that as well but i really think people it's on november nineteenth and i think really think it would be a fantastic program definitely and getting the word out there about the medal of honor a lot of people know that it's for something about valor or maybe they've seen a movie or heard a story but from what i've seen of the previews and this guy's passion for acting i think it's going to really be able to explain a lot as guys go through and he i have watched him in a number of television series he also was in a horror movie recently i think was called don't read where he played a blind man and these kids broke into his house and i'm sure by the end of the movie they've regretted that he they got there but he is passionate about the military and he really does a brilliant job let's maybe look at just a quick cli i hope we get a lot of people calling in you know call us at nine five three three three six eight go to the box office or on our website but beyond glory with stephen lang i can't wait to see that so how are our veterans doing today we hear about the problems at the v a hospitals and things like that how what's your sense on the situation so there's going to be struggles for everybody in different areas a view is actually pretty good there's still some stuff that can be fixed but if you need care you can get care they try to work with you the best they can people say oh it takes forever to get an appointment but you know i have regular insurance as well and it takes just as long to get an appointment you know i hear you so it's a hit and miss if they wanted to reach out if people wanted to reach out to you in a number of ways like if they needed help or if they wanted i assume there's some ways we can volunteer what sort of number phone number or do you have a website or what should people do right so we have a number of ways you can go to our website experience goodwill dot org and there's a tab a selection on there  somewhere for veteran services and all of our information's on there to get ahold of us and we can point you in the right direction we've got resources in the community that we work with our community partners are amazing we were able to help veterans through  jewish family children services they her grandma has ation great organization and they help with sometimes utilities sometimes paying rent and stuff like that so that's a big partner there we depending on what's going on if they need mental health help we've got the sarasota vet centers amazing there's some stipulations that you have to qualify for there so if you don't qualify there we've got other local partners and so and one of the our colleagues that we used kind of if you about having a service dog first i don't know and and now that i have and he's he's just amazing yeah we have a great program here in sarasota and i'll tell you so many of our performers especially you know when it's a concert or of residents and their local government is very important to the well being of any community volunteer advisory boards and committees are a great opportunity for local governments to engage their citizens in the process of crafting policies and tackling issues the city of serious so to has over twenty five advisory boards and committees with numerous opportunities for our citizens to volunteer their time and expertise from parks and recreation to public art to the historic preservation board just to name a few many advisory boards require some experience in particular field or professions and some only require residency in the city of sarasota for more information on the city of sarasota as advisory boards visit sarasota f l dot gov and click on the government tab there you can find a list of all city advisory boards and vacancies and you can even download it now application welcome back to at the band ways will and again a very special thanks to todd for coming out and talking about the veterans in our community we just don't have holiday shows at the van ways all in november and december we have all sorts of shows so we're really heating up the music scene with my favorite dance band casey in the sunshine band and they're here on november twenty fourth do you enjoy shake your booty is something to dance to i'm not going to be shaking my boot y you know and then another one we have is on november twenty seventh it's called black violin and we had this once before and these are two gentlemen from florida two young guys two black guys from florida that played the classical violin but then they've just it up with hip hop and rap and we've done a children's show for it and that's pretty well sold out for the kids show that we do through our school time program but we have been in a night version and it's on november twenty seventh and i'll tell you you have to see this show to believe that you will not be disappointed everybody that sees this show really goes out being a may so please come to see us at the van ways on november twenty seventh and then we have a broadway show kicking off the season so you have the king and i that's right very classic oh my god he doesn't get any better and it doesn't get any better than that and it's december fourth and fifth and i think i saw th but king and i would be amazing and then we have celtic thunder coming on december the eighteenth and this time they have an org mr with and you know again i keep talking about handsome young guys but they have a lot of them in under and that's december eighteenth and then we come to another rodgers and hammerstein musical but the sound of music yes which is great now also when you're in new york but i played brother abbott's really our high school production so i was i was brilliant you know at one point  musical and has all those songs like edelweiss and sixteen going on seventeen of course the sound of music everything's my favorite things absolutely and we have three performances of that we have to evening shows on december nineteenth and twentieth and a matinee and we have a little  and since we're on the musical theme and no one talking about our real big big dance show we're talking about on your feet and on your feet is the story of gloria in a million stuff on and it was a huge hit on broadway i've seen it three times and by the time the show is over the entire audience is dancing and that is here the week after christmas so i can't think of a better way to go out with your family and friends whether it's date night or you want to bring the kids this is a fantastic show absolutely all of the laureus hits and if you don't leave the theater dancing and singing you don't have a pulse there you go i mean i like that well let's look at a little bit of on your feet and then to kick off the new year we have salute to vienna and then we have jay leno coming up that's right and of course he's you know there are a lot of comedians i like but jay leno came here for our gala one year and what a nice guy he was and it was the night after he and did this in night show and he flew all night so he will always be my hero so if you haven't gotten your tickets and there's still some left come see jay leno january third and then here's a news show for us the three redneck tenors what can you tell me about this show i have not seen it so i'm looking forward to seeing it i'm always looking for new things and it has a great title so i'm sure it's comedic i know and i haven't seen it either but i believe it's played up at ruth eckerd hall and they tell me it's hilarious as well as they saying brokenly great but from the pictures i've seen they are in some interesting costumes the three net redneck tenors and that's on january the ni right and then we go to musicals again and if you haven't figured it out yet i love and i'm going to make you love broadway love to travel my wife takes me to broadway and there you go but you see that's like just like a man you wait for your wife to take y rotten and i saw this show on broadway and i all loved it you know it's about it's about some really really great guys and i just think it's the funniest thing ever and and again the lion king is going on sale the member the second now you've got to get your tickets what a perfect christmas present for anybody you got to get them soon because they're going to go out and the best seats go the first yeah they sell up the first so please get them  possible soon as possible i'm probably will be there every night i can't wait i'm just so excited one of those shows no matter how many times you see it it's still sends shivers up your spine mike you never get tired of it it's one of those things you know i was lucky enough to be in the disney offices before the lion king opened on broadway and i was there having a meeting with someone and i got i was looking at some of the sketches for the head of the masks and just the creativity that went into that just blows my mind so if you only see one show this year and if you do shame on you but if you only see one it's got to be the line of yours and we'll be back next month