mary dental executive director of the theater and your host today and i'm here with steve baker our marketing director and we had a great on sale didn't we certainly did record breaking yeah we sold them both here twenty thousand tickets in four  days very cool i think everyone loves the season thanks to your work but i do other phenomenal yeah but you know then you have some shows that don't sell and i'm like a nervous wreck so you know i want them all sold out right away but it's been a really to talk to them and what they're interested in that's right and the big number one seller which i was very excited about of the single shows was ill devo which is our th anniversary so i'm really thrilled that people are excited yeah that's a winner but you know again we always recommend people to join the eclipse because you get to go buy tickets before and then follow us on facebook and twitter and and our social media person is out and not feeling so well right now so rightly we're wishing her musicals of all time it has this little ting haunting score it's called once and it's set in a bar in ireland and this is one of the shares you get to be up on stage and have the beer with the cast before the show starts kind of can you never ever not seen it but i seen the movie yeah now this is based on the move it is based on the men i know that it got a oscar for the best original song so the music yeah i love the music i play it all the time well let's see a little bit of ones which will be coming to the i think what i love about the music it's haunting and it's such a beautiful story it is so full come out see once it's it's really worth it and then we have a superstar coming from the country where all do i go come that's right he's won so many different awards and he's up for a he's going to be inducted into the nashville songwriters hall of fame yeah he does it all doesn't he's wrong writer and a singer and a movie star and a movie star next you know he he's been some big plays some really you know strangely roles and but he's sold twenty five million albums he's won multiple grammy awards he has so many gold platinum albums it's hard to count and i remember seeing him on the grammys a year or two ago and they had him with a very strange pairing and so that was you know one of the those unusual where they were at a rock person with you know a classical also that it was a very goo  let's hope we can get him on the phone and do that but then a show that i really think is so important for the band ways and it's one that is near and dear to my heart is latin history for morons and that of course the title sounds report on latins between the mayans and picked all right so we had to write a show but three thousand years of history i go yeah it's pretty crazy and i think it's important and i really think people this is hysterically funny show and john has done a number of one man shows on broadway and i really want everybody to come back come out it's on november the th and you will have a blast and i really say come to the van we're trying to do you know some more diverse shows and we would love to get you know different audiences different audiences and this obviously this is a this is a show not just for latin folks but right the rest of us right it's true that it's a different you know i know he's been on netflix but it's so different when you see him bly oh yeah because he works off the energy of the audience and that's yes and i love these actors are so quick in how they do it and yeah and i saw him on broadway in a couple of shows and he blew the roof off the planes so come see latin history for  they said there's over three hundred costumes the show in twenty death defying acts so that alone is interesting and they are death defying actually you know sometimes they scare me to death but i've seen cirque dreams holidays  i guess three or four times and i especially love the christmas version because they're so inventive you know it may be that the juggler's is dressed up you know it's peppermint candy or you know that the christmas tree comes to life and it that long and the name collective soul came from a book the fountain head but they said they just like the name collective soul they're not into and random anything like that really well but when you heard songs like shine  and it should be a great evening and you know one of our st concerts after dwight so i also you know a christmas christmas would be christmas at the van ways if we didn't do date cars and the great cars show was coming and  we often open the show and it's no over twenty nine and this year there's one of my favorite vocalists melissa manchester oh that's right you know bill yes she is a big deal yeah and of course he always has jonathan butler come with him who and then we have celtic angels christmas right and that is one of my also favorites you know i'm lucky because i've been here a while yeah i've been around but celtic angels you know one of the places that i wish i could go at christmas time is ireland you know and the music right and yeah it's built very little and it's dance music and you have to be dancers i understand all your singers and dancers and it's all around the holidays in ireland and i just adore them the st time he's appeared here oh my gosh yes it was out he did and i mean last time he was here is supposed to be here on the day the hurricane was coming in a couple of years ago and we rescheduled them for february but this time he's going to be here in december i know his daughter is coming with him and it will be a fantastic show and that is december rd and then when we come back we're going to have these spend tested general managers from get a lot of motive who were so great to sponsor  every day forty four people in the us 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 welcome back to at the bin wades all as i mentioned on our last episode i have a really great team of gentlemen with me from gavel who were the platinum sponsor of friday fest let me st thank you for everything it was so it's a great time but we have gosh but mark i read was and you were in the auto industry since one thousand nine hundred and three from boston that's correct and you lived in lakewood ranch for five years and you and i can talk about the best restaurants later sure i used to live there and i we also brian has been in the auto industry since two thousand and lives in parrish so i just an off the wall question how was the auto industry changed at all since you both got involved i say right now everything is heading towards a digital platform oh really yeah yeah people don't want to spend you know forty five hours coming in purchasing a car they want to do all their research and get it on the do everything online and and way they're there to help them do that we just have a  new site right now get dot com where you could actually do everything online right now purchase your car go from a to z really finance options oh my gosh trades evaluated for you but i have to come in like really try to beat down the deal yeah it's a little if i want to read one for example or a white one you know i can find out if it's in stock and all of that yeah really that our group i mean sixteen stores one thousand two hundred employees for toyota stores  ok teachers are picked by their peers in the community we go out there and we give them a five hundred dollars check so they can use that money toward supplies for the schools are going to send the teachers don't have the supplies that they need and we have to go to these interesting right now and it's just nice to be behind an organization that really back set up and you know they like to give back to the community yeah we have over thirty thousand students that come here to our school time shows and then you know you see these things these backpack drives and stuff like what you're doing to give supply i started out in the teaching field and you know you just always sort of assume that you would have the supplies you need so if the teachers have my greatest respect and they did ra but what about you in your dealership i agree i mean right now we have switched we've we've switched from cars to s u v s hyundai didn't have a big s u v market they switch they're like  percent s u v s over cars right now that's what everybody wants yeah right it seems like it i and i have a white s u v and sometimes i can't find my car because there are seven of the white s u v s in a row right now right so i've got to pick my color better next time you know in florida there so yeah there it is but i have red seats so you know i have a little really big heat if you go on by but i just think it's fantastic what you gentlemen do do you find that advertising is almost going digital now and not as much thing and i'm really appreciate it and i think it makes everybody happy to do things for kids and teachers thank you so please you know go out spend your money we go to get a lot of motive because they've been wonderful then weighs a little we're really thrilled to have you with us donna what you doing hey i'm just checking out the new car to city just to live right now it's just one recycle container for everything and i already have some stuff to recycle but i'm a little confused about exactly what i should put in there well obviously you have your plastics me glass paper and cardboard but some people still do wish i could wish not going 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 b no that pizza box has grease and food residue grandma's old plates you can actually repurpose that plate and take it to a not for profit organization maybe someone else can use it and other uses selectric accordingly longer you can also send that to a not for profit how about  receive recycle information in the mail your water bill and when you received your new car and there's 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 lady you know it takes me four days to decorate my house i have to hire someone to put things in the air it's fantastic we love it i don't go to your house i go and so i you know i like to book all these christmas shows so we have a bunch of them in my early af every year is like christmas you know but i enjoy going to get some new nutcrackers i heard we are we're going to the great new nutcrackers every time i see a nutcracker i'm like we have to have it but anyway we have danced to the holidays which has starting some of the now she's stunningly b i've seen them on i'm with the stars and she was lovely to yeah although i spent more time talking to tony blair about but they also have folks from american idol on the tour because you know all of these shows incorporate music with dance and right this is a fantastic fun show and i think a number of the folks are coming from so you think you can dance and that's december for so and then what's the next christmas show up under the streetlamp oh yeah holidays i know they have a best selling recording out yeah this is based on that recording yeah but and it's a fun way you know we have all six different kinds of christmas show that's right and hip to the holidays you know they cover a lot of the beatles in the four seasons and you know that was what the jersey i'm from new jersey and that is the jersey groups in the philadelphia groups would do they'd hang out on the street lamp yeah under the street lamp and they'd sing that you know and it was always so cool and you know i would in philly in south philly for a while and it was like you know they would be filming rocky there and well you'd have to people wonder singing all the time that's a cool great fun folks so come out to see hip to the holidays they have a p b s special and  they're going to sing you know santa bring my baby back home white christmas you know the things that the clash and some other songs yeah absolutely and then we switch gears we still are in the gorgeous man category right but  have ten tenors which is home for the holidays that's right and the ten tenors originally came from australia and i remember when they were called the australian tenors that's right and they've become a huge hit and this is home for the holidays is on you can bring the entire family and so we have a lot of music for the holidays in the van ways and i really feel you know they're world famous so you should take the opportunity to get to see them see them life absolutely and then we have a belove story you know that it's not christmas unless you see the not cracker or a christmas christmas carol that's right this is a beautiful production from the nebraska theatre caravan that we've pretty much done every year and you know it's all the favorites  right tiny tim and you know and i really enjoy it it's great it's and they have a lot of music in it and then they have you know it's almost like seeing a broadway show in that big of a movement on stage a lot of costumes it's very nice yes and it's really fantastic and of course then we have our famous salute to vienna which we do every year which is you know i've been to vienna and the holiday show it in vienna is spectacular know what's interesting about this group is that sometimes certain songs sound better in a different language yes and they do five or six different languages and the songs sound fresh they sell new songs that we already know and it's january th but i would suggest if you thought yeah that's right you put it you're going to be wrote it i loved it i can go see it every night it's so so phenomenal and it's about her it's the love story with her and her husband and then how she got started in the  business right did you know that she wrote for all those groups i didn't and when i heard those all those string of hits i go wow she did over those and she started when she was sixteen so she was like a prodigy and you know this you know we talked about the number one single and also we had to add a show of american in paris right there are so limited tickets to the evening show and then better ones for them for the math and i think the average capacity sold is seventy five percent already yeah for that show going fast so now let's switch gears here's the righteous brothers are coming out that's right blue eyed soul yes and of course it's on january th and we have bill medley who was the one of the original brothers right and of course the other brother pals he had bobby had phil passed away so sad but they put a gentleman by the name of bucky herd into the group right i saw the show last year they were phenomenal and but yeah heard was just great tenor voice oh my god it's the baritone beautiful i mean you know you've lost that loving feeling i know classics oh my god unchain melody and last year i just saw that the customers were so happy they were singing the songs and it was it was a really great evening and that's here january th and then one of my favorite shows we've ever had weasel comes back steve martin and martin short yes that's fantastic they were so funny and they have a new version of the show and they were on netflix and right but they were here for our gallant couple of years mormon right les miserables what else so stand stand and stand color purple we also have come from a way that's right the very end big show for the year and that's of course about the nine dollars where all the planes diverted to newfoundland to get or gander and it's interesting we've had some people that actually live in sarasota that live there too and they came up and told me their individual stories so we have a big broadway i love it so anyway we're really excited to have you back all back here we had a great summer with friday fast and now we're ready to kick off the year get going that's right and if you don't have a brochure please call the box office and get the it and i'm like did you not think that seemed unusual as clean so and because we don't control their money and we can't really help sometimes but i have up my sleeve a couple more shows that to be announced very shortly  and maybe on the next at the van ways will be able to say who the gallo artist is and who another big big stars that's coming back to at the van whistle we will see you next month