so exciting the last two weeks people are buzzing over what you've done but if you believable well i mean we're going to talk about some of the special things when monica from the foundation is here we have gringo star which is joining amazing you know i don't see it all and of course i always talk about the story that when i was thirteen i by friends saved up and we got tickets to see paul revere and the raiders and it was a great show but then like years later my mother told me that she was going to buy me tickets to see the beatles a tray stadium and she thought that would be too much excitement for me i want to time and i'm like i needed paul revere ever said and then i met him last year and he was such a great guy you know but yeah we're going to have a beatle he actually my friend jim mckenna who runs the sarasota works too we had hoped we could get her to do a show together but sarah mclaughlin is coming for our gala and she has such an amazing voice and what a great humanitarian she has you and you know she fantastic what a nice gift and then the last edition we just announced i have a few more that hopefully will be coming up soon but we just announced harry connick who i have such a crush all of my gosh she does she do i do and i had my picture  he was fantastic and of course he's now famous for being on american idol and he was up in the area filming the dolphin tale i know so harry loves it down here and so he's happy to be coming back to the purple purple building so that's february tenth and so we're and then i'm working on one or two i can't tell you what's going on all the time i do and we added a matinee for sister act and a matinee for camelot and so those are those are because those evening shows are almost sold out its rights but what we have coming up really shortly is black friday now for those of you that don't want to go out to the store give us a call to try we have zero whole bunch of shows so that twenty percent to fifty percent off a lot of fifty percent off shows and you know as and as we talk about there's not a bad seat in the house and so you know this is the time to do it and the first hundred people get a president i know you  year we sell so many tickets and if you spend five hundred dollars you get two free tickets and you know there's like cincinnati pops and battles are also it's a great show so i recommend friday fest friday fassler i mean that would be great that would be  handsome he's really handsome very nice but unfortunately for me he's not quite tall enough for me or maybe we should put it this way i'm too tall for him there you go you know it's right but anyway that's on november twenty eighth and his favorite guest and i must say my favorite because he brings different people every year jonathan butler from south africa and he sings a little drummer boy linda davis and kenny rogers is such a great guy he was really nice and fun to be with and that saturday number twenty nine with a local choir is going to be performing with us and then we have camelot and camelot has two shows a one thirty  o'clock and then i want to mention quickly folks toys for tots we're doing a drive that you can drop off a toy at city hall the van waves old bobby jones the federal building robert l taylor donate a new graphic toy for a boy or girl a newborn to sixteen years of age and if you bring them here you'll get a five dollar off coupon for either a christmas carol or jack hanna and that's a nice thank you and these toys think about it every year i go out and buy one because and maybe i should buy two because you know you don't want some child to go without a gift on christmas day think about think about how you would feel if that was you so again all over the said and maybe we'll see if we can get some of those coupon books out to other people so that you can bring them in but we will be back in just a minute with one of my favorite people she always makes me smile monica van buskirk is the president of the band ways a foundation has does so much for the kids and of course they have some specials going on with  and with sarah mclachlan so we will be back at the band ways on the 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 palm ave and 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 yard on the proper day in the city of sarasota residents with the odd house number those ending with one three five seven four nine are allowed to irrigate on thursday residents with an even house number zero two four com welcome back to at the van ways a lot of merry bumps of course and you may hear in the in the background we're right now rehearsing the show and we've had people running in and out of the cameras so anything could it could happen today monica monica van post kirk our guest here education program has two special shows coming up i mean you will always have people coming to all of our shows but we have two of them one is ring go what's happening mary we're so excited and it's been on my bucket list ever so many people have anniversaries than john your word but when we got a beautiful coming we said let's make that the big right so it's an ideal birthday party and so the ideal party that evening so we have sort of a delicious dinner before it starts at five thirty i will warn you all there are not many tickets they have if mary lets me tell you they've really been selling extremely well i know if the excitement when we go was fantastic and attach it was fantastic and of course you can if you that's just the first of of one special foundation of them that we have our gal and the gal is the biggest party of the year here in sarasota i will say it's a signature piece and it is a gem on the day last year we had jay leno it was great a leno exceeded our expectations it was so exciting and he performed and we were sold our it was a beautiful light it was great cher i'm excited mary and i thank you and your staff we're going to have sarah buck laughlin and why i'm so excited about sarah mclachlan is number one she's younger i want younger people to be coming number two she really believes of education she does their own foundation she has her own foundation and she brings in people and teaches the music  how to sing she loves children and we all know she loves animals which we have she does that wonderful and but you know people again can go just to the show but right i swear people should come to the gallon because it really starts out about five thirty in the evening out on the bay for about seven hours of party and fun yes that is you could imagine it's the best value because that is the other gallows where you just go to a dinner you know and maybe somebody sings a little song or tells a joke had we go here on the bay promptly like good wine yes we do then you come into the show and you get absolutely terrific first class seat love and that seat in the house however we have the we raise this money and we should tell you that the foundation raises money first for education we have a school time shows that bring about twenty to twenty five thousand kids and these kids couldn't afford we've kept the ticket price at seven dollars since i've been here it's been almost ten years and then the problem is to get the kids here they have to pay for buses and so the schools weren't able to do this so in order to stop it having kids not being able to come to the families of the foundations to step up to the plate they provide free busing about fifty thousand dollars just for busing so i took the time to seventy five thousand now and i will it's the one thing that really nurtures and feeds me especially when i have a bad day because the children are so beautiful and i can't tell you that i've told you this before how many young people are mothers have said the very first time i was at the theater and that was that the and they opened up my eyes to the wonder of the theater so it is something we're really proud of and the problems get better and the crowds get better and the little ones get cooler and smaller and yes they do and we've got older i don't know which is which monica and you could order tickets on it and hear our mission and see the children of pictures of the reality of that happens in this hall and i just want to say from the bottom of my heart thank you monica mike martello the chairman of our board and your wonderful board for everything you do for the hall and we will be back with environmentally friendly but anyway in december we have some great fun shows too and monica would do really well in this show with smokey joe's cafe i'll never forget the lady had one of those fringe dresses and she shook everything and of course our production is going to star the coasters  chairs and they're right down on what looks like the lip of the stage and they go above the proceed and i see children and older folks in the front row and i'm like oh my goodness they do that unbelievable and the way the women are able to contort their like i have not seen this for a little while so you know you clearly have different people each time it changes consulate and then jennifer holiday oh my god should i sing her song i can't i have a cold but i could sing she was the original dreamgirl you normally don't get four stars and one chance for a huge and then a show that i'm so excited about well what am i not excited about tony chris tony and i have this little competition go tony and i have enough christmas decorations to take care of macy's j c penney's and sirius all put together our own store we could we could we could we could go on about christmas ornaments christopher radko you know but anyway we digress cincinnati pops is coming but the peter noone mrs brown she's got a lovely daughter there's a wonderful hush all over the world and then of course the lots of people gary puckett the union and and  then it's not christmas without a christmas carol love love christmas carol a christmas carol is here on december twenty first at seven o'clock that's nebraska thier theater caravan we also have a russian nutcracker coming sarasota bally's coming during that time period look on our website for details on those shows and then one of the great guys of all time and he's always so funny jungle jack hanna what a treat i mean today show good morning  again is every now and then the show or the store holds some tickets and they don't always use them so you never know the day of the show you might be able to get a great ticket but you know there are a lot you may have you know better to call sooner it's right and that we have a great fun new williams is coming and the nestle williams of course was the miss america miss america who are just so beautiful beautiful but she was she was the star of kiss of the spider woman she was the star of into the woods she took over as the which you may be seeing some of the into the woods tell you know they made it into a film and meryl streep is it playing the part the nesa played in burdock peters played it on broadway originally and she's here january second and she sings you know the colors of the wind  know we've told you before do not go to these these other secondary sites where you're going to be gal just for tickets and more expensive price make sure it says official then ways will because they're very deceptive it's right up to the box office  remember the first time your people on black friday morning get one of tony's specially rather presents and we thank you so much and we wish you from the bottom of our hearts all of us here in our little purple building for a very very happy holiday