performing arts hall and i'm here with chuck stevens our erstwhile marketing director well i've been traveling a little bit and we're sitting on opposite sides i mean her over here but we're here in our temporary studio because they are retailing the men's room right every painting the whole theater when you come back it's going to be lighter and brighter in the van ways all but still purple i'm told on purple and not that i could see yeah right and then we're also putting shades in the grand foyer a which will be great because but you'll be able to see through them because  sometimes down there is something on his blinding you know now i would know more about that if my office was facing the bay rather than the parking lot you need to talk to tom about there i know i know but anyway it's been a great summer i can't believe it's be talking about a little bit but we have our first show really it's technically in last season but for me it's in the new season and we have brian wilson with pets that sounds and i'm telling you i've been following the reviews from all over the country he played in boston all the high notes he can't any well you know i can't you know fit into the dress from you know back when i was in high school you there but anyway but that's sunday september eleventh right at seven o'clock you know when you think about you know september eleventh and what happened that day it just makes me feel warm that we on another side september eleventh can celebrate the some of the the beach boys and pet sounds was such an incredible all that early music that everybody knew and fell in love with and it's just it's performing arts halls because we're working on right bayfront twenty twenty project and i just came back from indiana and saw a concert hall but one of the hot spots in the country wide los angeles no no no no but you know i always find it you know we o you know i've been busy looking at you know we've been in all sorts of different places looking at performing arts halls but i'll tell you what people don't understand is you know our continental seating the people complain because they have to climb through the rows you have so much more leg room do the same lanes are fantastic and of course are the safest because you can get in now without any any rush so you know at some point you're going to have a new performing arts hall or center but i'm going to tell you have to it's all said and done  heart oh i know and of course you know ireland is one of my favorite places in all the world like i've been there several times and celtic thunder they just do an amazing amazing job you just put up with river dance when we're talking river that's all that you know i've got one of my favorite my s and she's particularly headlining i think sounds from the movie which is her most recent call really at this point that's what we understand so we're looking forward to it and that date is october twenty eighth right and i'm really looking for that as well and then right around the corner from that is used as a top yes and hopefully nobody trips this time because it was supposed to be last year and somebody tripped and one of the guitars tripped and dislocated his shoulder and so that but they rescheduled and it was like last time it's all about the solo you know you know i always call even if the show is sold out always call or come down the last minute because occasionally you know we hold by contract you have to hold some tickets for the group for the band and sometimes they don't use them all so you know in the last day you could get a fantastic and then our box office manager often keeps a list of people so if you want to get on that list in case something goes cancel that right and it's going to be a great concert oh it is it is so those are three or four great concerts coming up in the fall right but one thing we really like to talk goes to the general public which is mode means you get better see they do when they get it on the scale the line in time skip the lines they can do it online and then we also sometimes the end there's a discount or something special that the show is offering right if a sudden discount comes out that's always  boston so i'm not as country as you are but i do you know i started loving it when i moved to arizona somehow when you were walking around in cowboy boots stuff like that but the country has taken a big turn and rebel heart is aug twenty six well as i mentioned we have with us some really great guys from the get all stores and i'm so thrilled that you're here we have jeremy snelling of toyota and braden tim and also ben miles from get old miss on in but you have done such a brilliant job also helping the community that's one of the things that i really like you're right now involved with a backpack initiative can you tell us a little bit about that one of the great things and jeremy touched on  the get automotive group or not only desire to grow people from within so we have a phenomenal education program inside the company to grow our employees and if you put an application and you don't have to be experienced or have done it before we have the programs in place to train you but that that concept transcends just the dealerships and we do a lot of work within the community and i think we're all very very proud to be a part of the good automotive group and we do not there and most people are involved in some type of philanthropy and community service anyways we try to make it very easy what are you trying to put in the backpacks what do you need people to donate well everybody so strapped now not only are students going back to classes needing the supplies and materials they need but our teachers to have three school age children myself and every month the classroom need something you know the goal of the backpack drive is to set our students and our teachers up in our community at the beginning of the school year  things they might not otherwise have i don't know if people know i only heard about because we have an education program here at the van weighs a lot as well that lots of teachers have to pay for their own supplies in their classrooms i mean you know i got a teaching degree way way way back when and i would have just assumed that the schools provide everything so this is a you're also accepting cash donations i believe it's up to ten thousand dollars what we're going to do this year is any dollar amount of cash or products are donated we're going to match it up to ten thousand dollars all wonderful now the big part of this is the tax free weekend which ends august sixth so we are having a drive at the toilet on university by the mall the target by university  and we're going to have a couple of radio stations out there and because it's tax free weekend whatever dollar amount that you donate towards the backpack drive we're going to match one hundred percent so if you're donating twenty you're really donating forty but throughout the month of august you can drop off anything cash or a backpack school supplies pencils pens markers whatever it is at any of the get all dealerships when we take those in appraisal and then match him and buy an equal amount so we're going to get we're going to give you some tickets that you can give away as it's t get people to come on you know regular and give away things because we believe so strongly in the schools but did we mention the website did you mention the address go fine me dot com slash get a backpack two thousand sixteen we'll put that up on the screen so everybody yeah you just go to that website and donate a dollar amount jim get all and they get a lot of money for the match that one hundred percent up to ten thousand dollars this august to help our students out is going to have us get a head start this kind of course they're helping the arts by supporting us with friday fast but i've also we have just a few seconds left i've heard that people start now to search online for cars do you have a really big online presence as well huge online presence absolutely we have everybody has their own websites clearly we have  tremendous bunch traffic but there are going to get old dot com you can find everything you want there wow well on that website you can search by manufacturer location and open jobs and you're going to have a new store opening and you know i'm by meeting you too it's not true what they say about cargo that i write these are really nice fellows so they say that that's right don't go there you go that's it that's it every time i see a car dealer come and i'm like oh you know but it's so wonderful to meet people like you that are trying to give back and do for the community absolutely so it's always it's always a blessing we're just so blessed by some wonderful car dealers we also have wild like this is one of our great sponsors so we're between the two we're so thrilled to to work with you folks so we will be back in a minute after van wa sorts of things it's a wonderful thing it's unfortunate that the school systems need this outside help like this but that's the nature of where the governments of new well we have to be blessed in this country too because you know if you are in some of these third world countries you know to see what you know when i was of south africa you know to see what some of the kids have been you know and it just breaks your heart so i think it's wonderful people do that because i know rotary does things with backpackers and you know public with a backpack back the schools you know so you know oh great that's companies and we're of course here with our posters for some of our broadway shows that are now online you can now buy subscription online right after the fourth of july there was a line and we are selling subscriptions right up until the summer when we have our first those subscription shows so great are always available and squid seats are still available so don't waste a lot of packages this year oh my gosh of course my favorite season is the broadway season and might as well and of course we have a lot of fantastic shows this year the big one is kinky boots and then fame which you know it's amazing fame is almost sold out that show you know because but kinky boots we have a performance is fame we only get one right but cinderella which is sitting in the middle this is a new gorgeous broadway production and it's not just for kids although as you're chasing in and out of the costumes is just it's a thing of the costumes are beautiful you know when i was in indiana a couple weeks ago and there was a little girl out in front of the theater and she had on a little princess thing and i said are you a princess and she said yes cinderella and i'm like oh you know it's great and it's what and they have fantastic songs and music and you know it's just they have a really handsome guy that i've seen in the ads and i like the two women better ok like yes yes they will there were just two in the dirty dancing we have several performances of that so let's give you a little peek of dirty dancing well chuck after this i think we should go practice our dirty dancing what do you say i may lose my job or fight back a car right well your wife probably wouldn't like it if i went dirty dancing but totally different kind of dancing is r real i know you talked about her dance is one of your all time which i've handled the show i think i was the luckiest person in the united states because i handled it in boston where there was enough irish bass a player that our first time through we sold it for nineteen weeks at a thirty five hundred seat house and it was mike so i have to go the following week your we brought back for twelve more that out while i was and i was in new york when robert van started and i remember i was having lunch with an agent and he's like mary you gotta go over to radio city music hall because there is this new concept this irish dancing and you know now that we've seen like a thousand of but there's nothing as good as river dance and actually i think it's this show that spawned the p b s support because they were the first ones to really take a show and that is going to be here for three performances and in january and that's also selling very well in our  is coming that is the great new broadway production that has all the cirque elements i dorit and then of course we've also got annie and then once we've had we've literally had to add an extra performance of so i want this we sold album subscription that i don't think faster than back that has been here before we sold out in like thirty five seconds when we first had it and i am praying that we get it and hopefully next next time at the band ways we will have the show we want to tell you but i can say you know what it is but i  an credible education program and then the summer programs and you know i'm just so excited about announcing our new season because we haven't announced all the stars you're adding them every day it's fantastic i could only get that gal foundation president somebody asked her well who do you want next for the gal and she goes the rolling stones and paul mccartney and i thought oh also to get on that right away hope follow paul hello matt but i know season does go on sale on saturday september tenth the end of august to begin to september brochures will be going out to the public will be mailing out about ninety five thousand will also be online and there will be some pre sales who are the club members so this is a great time to get your tickets early if you want to get to some of the single night concerts before the rest the public and during the month of august a lot of shows are going on sale because what happens folks is we would put them all on sale at once but a lot of shows have national on sale right so to be part of the excitement of the