about having abby you on is abby was our in turn if you missed our last show and it wasn't super to have someone in the office so full of enthusiasm and energy oh my gosh and when she wasn't working she was over at the circus  everybody to have an interned you know we've had to fantastic kids in our office and we can expose to every aspect i mean she worked backstage she worked in a box so she worked in marketing she worked everywhere it was it was great for our education program because we focus a lot on little kids and this was you know working with older child kids was she's not a child she's a woman but she you know she's i heard that she's going to be coming back in january hopefully for a couple of weeks and back is it going to be so you'll be able to get her to work on some shows but all that said you're doing pretty well going to talk about that are also doing great so so i'm going to give restraint revenue there you go you better not truck threatens me all the time but anyway some big news is all of our shows that haven't been put on sale are going on sale september twelfth september twelfth at seven o'clock and how do you do that you come to the box on this even before that if you know what you want are brochures going to be going out in the mail starting next week you can make appointments to come in on thursday and friday before the saturday or private appointment with our box office people and they will take care of all your services then otherwise you come in on saturday there will be food and drink in the beginning and then you get this thing where you can go on the computer and you can go on low and when it's all dot org so we make a phone call and of course the folks i will tell you that is our heavy sales and we sometimes do a million dollars in that day so we'll be open on sunday as well so there's one then here is another tip if you were a subscriber to our broadway our orchestra season a that's the best way to get the shows are still taking subscription and we're still taking subscriptions so you get a discount on most of them but you get to go on a what's called a presale day on september tenth at eleven so before the crowds or during our e mail club you know so those are great ways but as well as all these shows that are going on sale before that we have a big broadway show going on single ticket sales you're going to be just well beauty in the face is on sale but i was thinking more man i wasn't sure i could say oh we have ever oh it's huge across the country it's probably the biggest show you know with the exception of some like a lion king sits down for eight ten weeks but book of mormon in the big cities sits down for months on end and we it get down there on august thirty first but you mentioned disney's beauty in the beast which we have a little piece of video that we can share with people because that's what you know is on october fourteenth and we've already sold over a thousand tickets so you want to get you and the show is such high energy i will tell you i have a couple of doctors that are friends of mine where i'm actually their patient and they are this is the show they want to see you know and their kids so that's october the twenty ninth and that is now another show coming hailing from my hometown well it's not my it's my adopted hometown i was actually born in trenton new jersey but i moved to philadelphia and lived in philly for a long time i know you were going were legally barred from work together your money so yeah you know and from there is coming daryl hall and john oates one of my faves unbelievable and their business so for is the best we've ever seen oh my god outrageous so you want to get it now because it's on sale and you know probably three quarters of the tickets are sold and i was lucky enough with hall and oates when in philadelphia filled up as a walk of fame right and in front of the theater i was running then the mirriam theater where the shooters were there their star was put right there so i got a chance to meet them and talk to them and they are fantastic in concert i once had the joy of seeing them and i think it was carly simon on the same bill it was like oh wow it was fantastic but they are here on december the second and then another show that's on sale at us not only on sale but they open him on in you know talk to him because you know that is when that show happens the whole audience shake shakes and my friends are gateway banker sponsoring that show so i'm and then also on sale we have two of the funniest men i've ever seen october one in two and i am so glad because i am going to be in baltimore on october first because i go to conferences to look for new shows and meet with agents and i'm so glad they have the october second show because i would not want to miss this and we've got a little piece of  now the next show i have to tell you well you know this all right well here we go rick springfield is coming to town and of course he was my heart throb but i was a teenager and you know and when i was in college and of course rick springfield jessie's  to sell tickets so i'm telling all the people around me i'm like you know rick springfield is going to be in the band ways so the couple next to me and i have to say hi to my friends whoever i didn't get anybody's name but they had bought tickets to see rick already do you think the reason for the course he was here the band weighs all this summer you know you get the face of the year award for the second time yes this he did you know and it was funny because he said a lot of the things here that right that got him all in trouble but anyway  time around here on november nineteenth and here is straight no cha the dressing room that we use for the meet and greets with the stars because lots is going on at the hall would be back with one of our staff folks steve brown to look at the in just a minute anthony is wanted everywhere but recently he went with his parents to find a new place to live but housing discrimination is illegal so anthony's parents filed a complaint and now they have a wonderful place to main job is in our season you advance shows and you deal with everything like give them folks well everything backstage everything backstage the whole idea is that when the artist arrives and their production crew arrives that everything is ready so they can do a good show so whatever that takes we do and the things he has to do with catering and limo rides for the stars and all the stage hands and all the last minute glitches my my favorite expression is no problem we fix there you go and i like that no problem we fix but no steve has been here all just a little bit longer than i have and has been such a great friend to me and i so thank you for everything you do you know you just wonderful but the other part of the job is we have a building and a building that's over forty five years old and every year we've together we've sort of forged together in new projects and some of the ones in the past were you know we put in a new sound system oh my goodness we finished last year the year the bay which would have not been a pleasant thing and let's not forget the marquis the marquis that was huge that was huge so this year i challenge steve with some even greater projects and one of the things we're working on right now is renovating the women's bathrooms and i sort of started with the women and not the men why is that steve because well i'm not so why have i don't i don't think that it's more important to the women to the ladies it was also a matter of how we just made our money over the course of two years this is really a two year project and so we're halfway through the first project part of it which is the women's restrooms and the carpeting and the next year we do the men's rooms and the rest of the lobby decor right right and anybody that's been to a theater and arena or wherever you want to say knows the line at the ladies room is enormous and the men you all just go in and out and you're fine but to women it really matter is those matter and you came up with the architects were you working with jonathan park's right a really kind of unique to design that will help move some of the ladies inside can you tell us a little bit about what we did we become modern for one thing if you want to hold you know hotels or airports there are no doors you walk around corners and walls and so lines don't stop at doors so we've done the same thing we've created those kind of entrance and so that people can get further in and we bring the carpeting further into the bathroom and hopefully that will alleviate some of the pressure coming in and then we've redesigned how people work through the bathroom and get to the sinks and get back out a what it was designed you know was designed i think fairly well thought out in regards to ladies rooms in that if you go to a new york theater or broadway theater there are three or four ladies room stalls and the women are just for ever you know in line it's like the curtain comes down and i'm good enough that i can sense the last number on a broadway show and i'm out of there you know especially if i and i was right but the nice thing is the band weasel they started out with a good amount and then they added to it but this will give us even more flexibility because what wasn't as good is the fact is when we have sold out shows which thank heaven we have been so lucky to have one and we end up with a bottleneck you know and that's a lot of people don't even know where all the restrooms are part of the whole design of the carpeting is to lead people from one area of the theater to the other sort of help you get down the stairs to the grand foyer and find all these new stalls in the ground for your rest room and that sort of thing yeah that is fantastic and then i also should mention besides the carpeting  know and the ladies bathrooms we have put in a new orchestra shell that is here and that was a project you and i have wanted because for forever because of course i think the director before me wanted to throw it out in the bay and make a brief what exactly because it's huge and it took up half the backstage and now a larger show like the lion king has room to load into the theater they can't they couldn't come here before because they would demand that we take the ceiling pieces out which we couldn't do because they were seven thousand pounds apiece wow and we had no place to put them o place to go so we now have a wing or diva show which is much more flexible portable and we can take those ceiling panels down take them to the back and open the from up at the back wall and then we've cleared out all of the space for the big shows scenery and i know the sarasota orchestra who  the good thing is we put beside yourself and my on they are peak committee a member of the sarasota orchestra staff one of our union stagehand served on that as well as someone from the city and so everybody had input so it there's no surprise  everybody's happy they've all been over to see it we just finished it a couple of weeks ago everybody see that their buddy is thrilled so and we had some great grands some help from from sort of coffee and i saw the foundations and then small smaller projects but still ones that people will really won't know about is the live station has been redone by this the folks at the city and our department over there at the city is so wonderful to work with climate and his crew were moving all of our dumpsters away from the basin entrance into a separate  they pay a surcharge on every ticket that goes into our capital for nothing comes from the taxpayers it comes from exactly these are their projects these people that use the theater are paying for these products i think that's so i want to thank you steve you know steve is one of the best guys in the world he's calm he has been such a friend to me and you don't know hopefully you won't know steve's there because when you see the show it's flawless right exactly there is no doubt thanks so anyway thank you for  what happens when people take action against housing discrimination my coworker was pressured by her landlord to pay her rent but sexual savers my neighbor was told she needs to get rid of her dog even though he's an assistan discrimination is illegal if you think you've been a victim reported to hard 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 band ways or i really think steve does an incredible job job in this you're always going to be you know excited and the thing is with steve unlike some places where they have broadway shows that sit down for a full week all the time be you know they may come in at three in the morning to start the load in and then it may then you do the loaded and then you have the show and then you have to take it down the next three hours later another show another try to close it you know it's and it's not like you know if you're doing a big show like phantom it sits down and you're there but this is in and out and in and out different equipment it's it's an amazing you could never do the job i'd be pulling away here it seems like it has no bearing but course there's something in our business called technical directors these which means that you know they have a nervous breakdown at least once a year because it is just plain overwhelming to let you know he's just great some great work but speaking of shows other shows that are on sale right check you just have to be positive but i'm going to be better this year because i am going over to be ana and show off yeah well and the producer of the show a tele gladsome has set me up to see some of the some of the performances of the orchestras over there and you know for those of you who saw mission impossible you know a lot of that was set in the vienna opera house that you were ordering which i'm touring and you know i'm thinking about leaving the way tom cruise l in the scenes are you know i offered to do that but he declined so i don't understand why but kristen has a voice like an angel and she is on february twenty seventh i'm going to announce a show soon on the same weekend that i think will blow over the socks off adore is linda eder right who has been here many many times but for the first time john coochie ollie is coming with her and i was thrilled because back way early in my career i flew to houston i was working here well chuck i know this is making you sad but we're going to have the last friday fast you know and i don't think you have been to one yes that's true i was at work which one the second one really kind of i remember it well oh that's a mouthful i know but this is one i think that will be fantastic because people love to dance at friday fest out you know it's free or out on the bay the sun comes down but they got an award for best musical group from the herald tribune people's choice weather is great do wear sunglasses start in the evening with sunglasses you know we just always pray you know for no rain that's always everybody's on my parade ok so anyway we what we need to repeat book of mormon is going on sale on august thirty third first monday the thirty first and then and all the shows timber twelve saturday at ten o'clock as well and our phone number is nine five three three three six eight you can come to the box office and  tickets right in person or you can go on the web right now and you know have a little patience with us because we're very busy that day but i think we have one of the biggest seasons and ever and ever if you  last year was terrific we're going to beat it this year i can tell you it's going to be even more for them and i and i have one final thing to announce yes since when the show would airs we will have nouns that are in a fleming the great metropolitan star  and what's even more exciting she will be singing with the sarasota orchestra and often people like renee bring their own conductors and we went to her and said could and who tali can direct the new conductor at the sarasota orchestra and she and immediately they said back to me renee loves to support female conductors and we said all of the information off and she was delighted and so this is going to be who for the year for sarasota with renee fleming and the sarasota orchestra january twenty seventh it's coming for us and with all the shows we've talked about it's going to be really kicker of a year going to be terrific and now we're going to leave you with a little clip of my love rick springfield and we'll see you next month at the van ways