want them to at the bin weighs all i marry ben so i'm here with steve our great marketing director how are you wonderful and as you can see happy holidays you know it's the time that we're getting near christmas and new years but what you may hear during the show is we may hear judy collins and stephen stills in the background it's very exciting we of course tape these in advance and there were her sitting in there so that out of the energy yeah a lot of energy looking forward to the show  it is the first time and he's had a lot of amazing hits of course he's he's a london born singer you know and everybody talks to me about his ex wife you know that he was married to a supermodel but what we really love about seal is that husky sixteenth and this is the van way the foundation's gala so we urge you to buy tickets to the show call us at nine five three three three six eight and if you want to go to the gallup portion of it which is a beautiful dinner that  michael so nice caters out in the tent i've been lucky enough to go and speak at them and at the gala and it's support of our education program and so it's a fabulous dinner you then see the show and then there is an amazing evening is the performance by seal who was just an international grammy award winner so we're so thrilled to have him him with us but let's talk a little bit about shows that are king coming up in december we have the grammy and i know that's  hammerstein and this is one of my favorite musicals and i saw the production this is the new production that was at lincoln center and i saw it and it was spectacular and this is a great show it's all it's getting close to sell out so call for your tickets today only two performances december fourth and fifth and i think it's one of my favorite rodgers and hammerstein musicals because the songs hello the young lovers getting to know you and  to music you don't see you don't often with all those kids and there's a lot of kids to spend some show to trip around because you have parents coming with the kids and tutors and everything but it's one of my favorites and of course no one will forget the show we dance right  and of course that fabulous movie with the old printer and writing the king but anyway and then we segue into another one of my favorites were having brian wilson coming and of course brian wilson was one of the founders of the beach boys and  days but he's going to do that and he's also going to sing some of the songs from his own solo album and that's december eleventh and he's also has blondie chaplains coming along and al shehri dean and this is going to be great fun for the holidays because you know you can see the traditional christmas songs but when you have you know the beach boys singing these songs that the whole different thing and then our traditional shows we have a christmas carol coming or tell us a little bit about that christmas carols it's great music  charles dickens it's a great story and one those a story but i'm looking forward to seeing how the twenty three performers on stage takes the music and the music through this i've seen it many times and you know it is just beautiful it's  broadway production of course it's got all the beloved ghosts of christmas past and and tiny tim and bob cratchit and mr scrooge and it really makes you feel good about christmas and this is a show you can take little kids but you can also bring your grandmother it's one that's perfect for the whole family and it's really a tradition like going to see the not cracker and i try to do both of those things every year i heard the start times at six pm yes six pm because you know we wanted to make sure and that's on december the sixteenth and we wanted to make sure that if you brought little kids that they could see you know it's really it in its entirety you know and so that's why we made it at six o'clock so that it could be the whole family coming so that should be fun and then we go to a scotland this year and there's something about that celtic music you know that you hear in scotland and ireland and i've been to ireland several times and it's a fantastic show and celtic thunder is amazing and then we have you know it's funny that we have to rodgers and hammerstein one to write together correct and the rodgers and hammerstein one this is another beloved one and then the other one with children this is sound of music right and we have trade shows for this we have a matinee special as well as two evening performances and last year i brought in charlie brown christmas this year we wanted to bring in rudolph the red nosed reindeer and this is a huge production this is two trucks of scenery and it's another show with an early start time and it's on december the twenty second at six thirty a saturday night and this would be a great show our education director last year brought her i think he was two then and she went out and saw it up at ruth eckerd hall in this year it's it at our theater and so i really recommend seeing this one and he had both thumbs up he had it was more like five yeah he was very much in charge of that and then right after christmas we go into one of our biggest musicals of the year and that's on your feet right and i love this musical have you seen it yet i have not seen it but of course i know the music you know they're using all of the music i know some of these songs the rhythms are going to get you conga anything for you one two three yeah now we're going to start singing and of course on your feet and by the end of the show people are up rocking and they're just dancing around and i've seen it on broadway twice and i really really loved it and it starts december the twenty sixth and runs through the thirtieth so this is the perfect show to come with your family usually and it tells the story of gloria and a million estefan and it really is a spectacular show and one that you know i think very fitting it's about cuban americans and how they got into the got the music into the into the trees electric on american music and i think it's fantastic how a million was so single minded and very driven and we have a little video of that as well so that will keep you dancing but not absolutely can't wait and then we will be back in just a minute with two special guests that are going to do something fantastic there's going to be a big show here on new year's eve and we want to give you all the details about our new year's eve would spectacular 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 t v as well as being available to  every day forty four people in the u s die from drug overdose but they don't have to know in florida if you're trying to save the life of another person you're protected from prosecution by the good samaritan welcome to add the band ways away as i reminded all of you in our first segment we have some music going on because we have stephen stills and judy collins in the house when we're taping this today and that's some of their music so you're getting a little preview of that but i have as our special guest larry ha primer the chairman and founder of the parkinson research foundation and steve to tone producer of the sweet caroline tour and they're here to tell us about a very special event that's being held on new year's eve with the band ways will welcome gentlemen i'm glad to be here thank you can you tell me a little bit about the show and also what's the significance of neil diamond in new year's eve well let me first say that the pockets of research foundation operates parkinson place which is a one of a kind center for parkinson's patients in sarasota it probably is a one of a kind in the country i've been working directly didn't directly in the park into world for about thirty years and when i formed this foundation i me and said this but be a great opportunity to do a fundraiser and so this is really our having fundraiser in the city and we're using this is a is a drug and to really to alert people about who we are what we're doing and for what i understand neil diamond last new year's eve was in times square singing sweet caroline he was getting a lifetime grammy award everything was looking fantastic in his life and then he had to announce that he was not able to tour anymore so can you tell us steve a little bit about the show yes sure it's what happened was two months later after that new year's eve that neil was on the last leg of his fiftieth year anniversary tour and he had to cancel he announced his parkinson diagnosis and had to cancel a slew of shows in new zealand and australia and his wife had texted out to those of us who are all diamond heads in the  universe how thankful they were for their condolences and the great good wishes and also a special shout out to those who bought tickets to those shows in australia who were going back and getting their money back from the box office and many of them turning around and donating it to the local parkinson organization the light bulb went off in my head i'd been a concert promoter for many many years and of late doing some film work but a good friend of mine who was in my first film jay white the world's number one diamond performer and the really the only tribute guy that does diamond internationally that's been embraced by neil and by meals family i said jay if there ever was a time we kind of do our little neil and raise do some good race money for parkinson's i think this is the moment and so we conceived we made one big change though in jay's approach and that is he's been traveling since his legend in the legends and concert introduction in vegas some time ago he's been torn the world with about a five piece band i said jay let's take let's let's change it around let's do a neil diamond sized band behind you and see what happens and do this thing really big and the idea just hit instantly with some of neil's band members who obviously were feeling horrible about your condition or so we not only have a twelve piece band for this warm ups you know kind of a proof of concept show in dayton ohio august twenty fifth with thirty five hundred people at an outdoor hippie theater and i've seen neil literally one hundred times in my in my time and jay just i mean the thing was a two hour nonstop not just the hits but some of the gems from neil's jonathan livingston seagull days and those types of things and it was just such a monstrous response just an incredible emotional response that we knew we had to bring it to my new hometown which has been sarasota since the early ninety's and that's why we're here i must say because i was lucky enough to see neil in concert when he was through tampa the last time for those that you that have not seen a neil diamond show it spectacular and people thing and they it's just a wonderful thing but we only have a few minutes left so let's talk a little bit about you can get tickets here at the van ways the box office you can get them by calling us at nine five three three three six eight you can go to our website debbie debbie debbie of in ways will dot org and then it's more than just a show there's a cocktail party a dinner can you tell me some of those extra things here and there's a few tables left on the v i p side larry i'll let you wonderful meal the people at the dinner get a get to see that get free tickets to the new year's eve party after the concert they get the gold circle tickets to the concert ok three thousand for a table of a what a fantastic way i would say to spend new year's eve we've spent many a new year's eve since i moved to sarasota i remember my first time i saw cats and you know we've had lots of great parties here but this one is doing something good for the community we parkinson's is a horrible disease and any way we can do work to eradicate that or even make it get a little bit better in somebodies life is very important and so i just want to tell people again get your tickets here at the box office called nine five three three three six eight or visit our web site this is going to be the most fun in town on new year's eve and we want to see you at the van ways will thank you bill the participation 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 sarasota 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 but more information on the city of sarasota is 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 an application  the barber manhole you worked on the show too didn't you san diego and minnesota so this is a show that goes all over the country it's called salute to vienna and it's here on january second and i was lucky enough i don't know if you've ever been but tell  set me up with some folks from the vienna opera house when i went over to vienna and i had a chance to see what it's like to be in one of the halls and hear this music and see the dancers and so i have a real fondness for it in my heart it's great you know there's so much charm in this show and you know you have the music of your junior and everyone's clapping along and you have the danube and you have the ballet dancers in the operetta and it's just wonderful way to celebrate the new year have you been to it's so anyway everybody come out and see a salute to me and they change the show up every year and i just adore it and again that's january the second at seventh at seven pm now one of the greatest comedians in the whole world jay leno is coming to visit us and i'm very bummed because it's on january third and i have to go to new york i go to new york to try to buy shows for the next years and i'm going to miss jay leno and i am this to get a nice guy have you met him before no but i heard he came here right after he closed the night after he closed finished the tonight show he he flew all night and came here for our gala spectacular guys they say he is a really nice man but he also was right and i love this show it's the about the bottom brothers and this is set in the renaissance that's right i haven't seen the show but i heard it's a riot i know it is very funny and if you're a theater person you're going to love it because there's a lot of things but the bottom brothers want to be like william shakespeare because shakespeare is apparently the rock star of the day and so they go to a soothsayer now i even said that right a soothsayer to find out what they should write what should be the next big thing and the guy goes musicals and they go what's a musical and he goes a musical about thinking cats you know it's all sorts of stuff like that you know it is good just fabulous and that is on january seventh in the eighth i will be here on the eighth good because i saw it on broadway and i can't wait to see it again so that's really forward to it and then we have a show i have never seen but i am really looking forward to the three redneck tenors i know what it kind of doesn't go in you know it shouldn't have anything to do with each other but if parents they not only sing but they do comedy and it was really funny i was listening to music and they did this take on betokens fifth symphony with three voices and it's just crazy  right this is be january the ninth so we really kind of like to mix it up here at the van ways and so we also have coming up blue suede shoes now who doesn't like themselves some elvis yeah the king the king of rock and i've seen these two guys they scott bruce and mike alpert and scott plays the younger elvis and my plays the older one and you know he's mike is in the white suits and he's given the women out the car and i tell you the women at the last show i think we had the show five or six years ago the women were painting they were like it was the real elvis you know and yeah it was a great great deal of funny out there singing with his hair too yeah he would he would he would and then we also have air supply coming and air supplies on january third team and these guys have been singing with each other for over forty years that's correct one sweet dreams they somehow couldn't be making love out of nothing at all but this is a great show and they they're really fun to be around yeah i really really enjoy them and then a new show for us is the righteous brothers and that's coming up on january fifteenth we have a little video that we can show you and of course we have a little fun with it because of course there is only one right just brother still alive which is bill medley who has been here and he was spectacular he came with david cause a few years ago and then he has got this great partner new partner bucky hurt and they do a fabulous job wonderful i can you know you lost that loving feeling is probably the most played song on the radio ever ever ever  course you know because i always fall in love with these movie stars i can never forget you know tom cruise the top gun with with some of the spectacular and then let's not forget the time of my life that they was immortalized in dirty the righteous brothers really have something to talk about and then the final show we're going to talk about today is one of my favorite performers of all time linda eder and i first fell in love with linda quite frankly when she was in jacqueline hyde on broadway and she has a voice like barbra streisand's it is tackler and she sings pop songs she sings i love songs she sings broadway tunes she is really gorgeous  king or two tickets to finding neverland or you can give them just a gift certificate with a certain amount of money on it and then the person could buy that anything they tickets to what they want yeah so give us a call nine five three three three  dot org or just go to the box office to really some nice lovely people right and so i really i wish all of you the most happy holiday seasons and really i hope to see you all soon back here at