love them too it happened in ways that i married denzel executive director and i'm so glad to be back in sarasota and here i am with tony tony best attorney general manager i was in new york little bit warmer here for like gosh i was never so happy to come home and you know i was up in new york for a pap which is the association performing arts professionals where you buy all the shows and you meet at agencies and i had seventy meetings in five days gosh but we got there and it was ten degrees and i forgot i couldn't find my know it was and some guy came up because chinchilla and i'm like fake fur i'm not with the big bucks but you know it was i got to see the elephant man with bradley cooper what a show oh you know and of course he's making great headlines right now with american sniper and everything but he does a brilliant brilliant job in the elephant man and then we saw another cute show called sex tips for straight women from gay men oh yeah and that was ok you know that was ok i didn't get that  blockbuster coming that's what i'm really excited about and then i'll also met with the producers of lying king and princess of phantom and went so well you know we have some exciting things and you know you're not always working just for the next year it's sometimes out there you know he does he sings a lot of love songs a lot of love songs but anyway we have courts have jersey boys coming up later this year and jersey boys i have to tell you we are over nine hundred thousand dollars in tickets sold without yet running a single ticket at we've done our season brochure so i think there is at this point maybe three thousand tickets left when it is not many you know in fifteen or twenty thousand tickets so anybody that wants to see jersey boys it's march wait to see it but speaking of jersey boys the original jersey boys mr frankie valli is here on january twenty seventh right and i i i think i presented frankie valli maybe eight or nine times all those great song me funds that they have we had some other members the fifth dimension a couple years ago but these aren't the two big folks you know so really i think sometimes you know people don't connect the names but there are a number of tickets left because they don't connect that that bell to answer and then we have a really great show coming up ballroom with a twist now do you watch dancing with the stars i do i do i've watched it since the beginning and you know i don't anymore see every episode no but you catch me here and there yeah i ha a few of those stars here oh yeah we had we had the two most gorgeous stars i would say you know and with move which is going out again and i've been trying to get it but they're trying to play much much bigger places and it's derek hough and julian they were phenomenal but this show has all my gosh this one's got tony dovolani in it he's handsome and then cheryl burke we tried to have show burke here once before and it didn't work out and i think we have a little chaplin is gorgeous and that show is january twenty nine it's been in a lot of major cities and it is fantastic dancing and of course these are the real stuff in my mind stars to show right now the shows running so long you know the heck with the room sportspeople the real stars of my my are these people oh my god it's amazing it's amazing it is amazing and then we have you know we're talking about frankie valli we have the golden boys and i have to tell you folks this show stars frankie avalon fabian and bobby right dell and you remember david in our box office our box of his manager said once a day somebody calls and asks is this a tribute show and he's like no they are still alive and they're saying and i could tell y frankie valli frankie valli frankie avalon he's so handsome still and fabian what charm and they show movies of like when these girls were ripping their clothes off and it was just hysterical and bobby right bell is really sweet of course you know from bye bye birdie and then the ballet truck a dirt bike and i was in new york city as i was talking about and they were everywhere because they were performing at lincoln center and so on and there were posters on the buses the ballet talking there and i'm like they're coming to the like i can't wait to see themselves and they're here on february fourth and we have a little video for we on the hundred six years of broadway just for the show it was so popular that the evening show has sold out but we've added a matinee and there are tons of great seats for the matinee and that's on february fifth the matinee said to and the important thing is  then we have one of my favorite orchestras the boston pops are coming and they are here on february sixth and the bob boston pops here are always a sell out there are some single tickets left and a few pairs so come and get your tickets right away and they are here on february the seventh and this is a group that i saw in nashville and they've never been to sarasota these are called the time jumpers and in nashville what i was there there's a lot of hugging tongues and clubs you know if you watch the t v show nashville they're always going to a club well on monday nights nashville when he's not on tour vince gill plays with a band called the time jumpers and he's going to be here in sarasota now been skill is always a sellout the ticket prices usually expensive this ban because you know vince is just part of the group but he's going to be here and he'll sing some songs they all sing songs and that is here on february the eighteenth and they're still to it and there's every february eighth because february eighteenth i'm sure we're in the middle something else something else going on our fantastic hotel indigo which is one of our sponsors and they're right down the street from us and we'll be back in a minute at the ban well as i mentioned i have two wonderful people here from one of my favorite hotels in town and also one of our really greatest sponsors i have leslie power who's the general manager and shawna ruby the director of sales from hotel indigo which is the hotel i stayed at shawna when i came to be interviewed for the job so that will always be in my heart we love that the hotel is so close to the van ways all and one of the nice things is your hotel is so warm and charming and you do so many great community events i was at one christmas time leslie that you did such a great job of well it was so much fun to host our gingerbread competition that we do with our local clients and the community and we use that as a fundraiser and a charity event that allows people to show their creativity and then they can win monies and funds for a local charity o their choice and it was great for me i got to sit with some other non profits are in town and you know i think it's fantastic we're a hotel that primarily caters to i guess out of town guests but you do so many things here in the community is there a reason for that or is it just a preference of yours which are really hard to be recognized as a part of our neighborhood and community in sarasota we want to be the neighborhood hotel where you want to put your friends and your family and your out of town child lawyers whether they're here for leisure commercial business yeah absolutely and i would guess i'd think of you in the class of about teco tell which i really tend to go to to staying at about teco tell especially when i've traveled in europe i try to find you know special sites and you've just redecorated the hotel can you tell us a little bit about the changes absolutely we just really completed about a one point four million dollar renovation where we completely changed the appearance of the guest rooms and i told you that i don't think you needed to because it was gorgeous to start with so but it was kind of like the hotel grew up a little bit we were a beach cottage hotel and we went to sort of a coastal casual feel in the building and everything that is represented in the renovation takes on different areas of be a part of and i think something that i found so unique to your hotel in this is not flame anybody else but when i stayed there i remember i came running in late at night and i said oh is there any way i could get a coke and the guy at the at the bar poured one out for me and he said well this is on the compliments of the hotel and he didn't have to do something like that and little touches like that i think from staff make you feel so so wonderful you've done a really great job of training your staff to be so accommodating which i think is special we have a really starting staff definitely i came on board six months ago and that's something that really stood out to me as a newcomer i just where did you come from i was with the marriotts by the airport oh ok so i've been  in the business here for i was with them as for six years and so another great friend absolutely and really happy to be downtown and more and even more engaged with the arts and sarasota and leslie and her team and eighty percent of the staff has been there since they open and we just celebrated our eighth anniversary so i'm proud to have been it says we're already far as i said about the staff and the level of service summertime you know and but i just of the hotel and the amenities and it's really great how do people get if they want to look up do you have a website or a phone number or we have a website hotel indigo sarasota dot com and our direct line which is one four one four eight seventy there zero we given each had a number as well that's great and we are part of the intercontinental hotel group which is the largest hotel chain in fantastic seeing somebody like that in the hotel you know in the lobby it's it's exciting and it always is when you see a performer an athlete an entertainer you're kind of it is a wow that's a really really nice you know and  mean they're people like everybody else they have good days and bad days and you know but i just know regis was a lot of fun when he was over at your hotel and enjoyed it but i'm leslie tell me a little bit about your community involvement i know you have done a lot you know what we participate in quite a few community events we support big brothers big sisters the boys and girls club and we're very active with them in different events and organizations and will do fundraisers one of the most  recent activities that we participated in was fund raising for the lido beach park out at the end of lido beach there because they were in need of some improvements and it's such a great natural resource and our guests are always looking for different then use and different place sure and we always use that park also so it was i want to be able to support the efforts that they had there with the community well i think all of your efforts are great i were out of time but i should say if you know you want to get away for a weekend this is the perfect hotel to do it or i know i've had too many guests in my house you never be wants to visit you in florida so this would be the perfect place to put some of their relatives you know and then you could come down and visit and have and you have a great restaurant to a restaurant his fabulous it's it's really good so everyone come to the hotel and you go and we will have all the information on the screen and i just want to thank you both because you have been such dear friends to me what happens when people take action against housing discrimination my coworker was pressured by her landlord to pay her rent and sexual favors my neighbor was told she needs to get rid of her dog even though he's an assistant housing discrimination is illegal if you think you've been a victim like me did they all reported discrimination and were able to secure their fair housing rights under the lawn this is hunt dot com slash fair housing or call the hotline fair housing is your right use and welcome back to at the end ways what don't you like the hotel indigo i love the place and they meant to tell us everybody they have one for the third consecutive year in a row the torchbearer award which is like the pinnacle you can get in that hotel group and that is fantastic and stay at the hotel indigo and they have a really great restaurant so anyway we get to talk about a show that i have just been dying to see again harry connick jr is coming of course we all see him mayfield and the new orleans jazz orchestra and irvin mayfield has won all sorts of grammy awards he is the trumpeter it's going to fantastic show and this is mardi gras time and so i mean this town loves jazz  everybody come out february eleventh for being the books are being made easy for me to say and the new orleans jazz orchestra i also have a sinus infection and i like sit up at night and cough cough my lungs out so i'm surprised they haven't treated everybody to migraine condition but then we have a broadway show that i adore or have you never seen this one yet well it was no one broadway a year or two ago it's called peter in the star catcher and it's sort of a prequel if you will a peter pan i mean people are just there are certain stories people just love to tell you over and over again and peter in the star catcher there's some music in it but it's funny and it's all done with unusual props there are a few tickets left for that but peter in the star catcher is definitely on february twelfth and it's a family night which means that you can buy a ticket for if a parent or an adult buys a ticket they can buy a ticket for a student for free or that you don't buy and you get a free ticket and then after the show we have an event downstairs in the grand foyer which is beautiful down there and we have like cheese and crackers and sodas and cake and the reformers come down and you get to ask questions and students just love it and i see a lot of sort of and he sang his hotel lots of funny stories on stage about the first time he met you know old blue eyes and the chairman of the board michael feinstein is just got a personality that just captures the whole state and he is charming and where else would you like to be on valentine's day and here with michael feinstein in the beautiful band ways we'll have a great dinner that they serve down at madison's and then see here frank sinatra songs on balance are probably my niece and nephew wouldn't like it because there were twenty three but you know i think got to get educated that's right you know i think they know performers i don't even know who they are so then we have a show and of course we confuse the audience because we have the piano guys and now we have the piano m and of course the piano man is by jim witter who is a great performer and he he does the songs of what to big billy joel elton john and all their hits oh my gosh it's all the hits let's look a little video and the show is on february the sixteenth we actually did fifteen zero february the fifteenth i'm off today sixteenth we have something else we have something else but we have something every day here at the very soul but it was nice of jim order to move his show because he was later in the month but we had a special person coming that will tell you about in a little bit that took that date but on february seventeenth to agree with that date tony alvin ailey yes i just wanted to check one of the sixteen th with the pros now the big difference with this show from ballroom with a twist is this is a show where we have a host coming you know i think it's it's alan thicke i think and everybody gets to vote so the show is different every night so with this one you're going to vote on on when michael which is the winner and this show is really fantastic too i've i've seen a little miss and it's really good but then on february seventeenth is alvin ailey which of course is fantastic what an unbelievable show that they are they do they don't know how they do what they do and and we're almost sold out for that show but we also have a children's show and they do a special show for our education series that is totally different than the nighttime show the nighttime show was you know the big fantastic numbers and of course i'm sure they'll do revelations because that's what everybody wants but they really go into it for the children in the students and explain about dancing and they're fantastic role models and then the person that we were talking about we had to move the piano man for was we had an opportunity to bring in ringgold star one of the beatles for our forty first the forty fifth anniversary and this is  this is our anniversary party and the foundation is having a dinner you could call the foundation let me get this number right it's three six six five five seven eight and you get dinner and you get to see the show because i think those are the only tickets left at this point left of course again i will say this very close to the show or day of the show sometimes the band doesn't use all of the third show to get some term back but this is not just rigaud star this is ring the star and the all star b meantime there's a fantastic chance to win a lexus yeah and it's a bit of an argument part of our theater and i'm very often it's like says something like take this key and i'm like let me take it and i'll just take a look for somewhere yeah not and the cool thing about this is the car the car that you wind save that's not your favorite model or you you want to different model lexus because you want to convertible or whatever you want to different color you can apply the money that is a lot  towards that car to another car that's cool so i bought last year a chance for each of my i was talking about my sister has twenty three three year old twins so they were like really that they did you know and i was like darn you