things something different every year i love it something different every day to yes so what have been some highlights for you have if there been favorite shows you've enjoyed why i think i really get into the broadway is something that i didn't have exposure to as a child and you know pretty much growing up here and something that i really have grown to love yeah i love the broadway too i love the broadway i love the rock concerts and i also love comedy but you know i never was much for classical person i work for a ballet company so course i enjoyed ballet but you know do you find that when you go you know you really start finding you enjoy something that you didn't know you'd like oh yes it's great i mean there's nothing better than a live performance and michelle is the problem other of when they also said when they were going to school that they wanted to go to the party yes yes yes so they have a good time whatever they do but anyway michelle you've been a great partner to work with over the years but we've had an incredible season are you as tired as i am  thing isn't it diversity and then of course we'll be talking about friday fest but first we'll talk about subscriptions and we have some killer shows this year some really great shows yeah and i have to say my favorite this year is going to be lion king of course  yes i that was actually my first show i saw broadway really yes it was amazing and i was trying to figure out how they were going to take the animation and put it live on stage and they did an incredible job it is one of the best performances i've ever seen it really is i  was i remember i was interviewing for a general manager job for disney at one point and i was in their offices and they had all the drawings of the masks of you know all the different characters and i thought wow this is going to be exciting and of course now we have it here at the van ways that it's going to play three weeks in march and we'll just show you all little bit of it now another show i really love is on your feet have you seen that yet i did i actually i was about a year ago so and it was such a great show i mean definitely dancing in your seats you know a great story all about gloria and amelia estefan yes yes so it was it was definitely a show everybody around me was was also dancing there it is it is you're just going to love it and that's here for a full week as well and then we have some new ones i don't know if you got a chance to see something rotten does you i have a but i heard great things i heard a lot of people didn't know what it was about and they really surprised and they said it was one of the best shows i've seen and we also have with something rotten that this is the one where two brothers are trying to come up with the next big thing in writing music writing so you haven't seen it yet so you're going to enjoy it well i know but that's here and then we have some of the great rodgers and hammerstein's musicals the king and i and i haven't seen that so my little boy is never seen the king and i you know i really think you should bring the twins because there are so many children in this show because of course the king of siam has all these children and they have a lot of great songs and then we also have some really other we have the sound of music and winkle and of course cinderella is coming back which is fantastic so we have a lot of broadway shows and then the twentieth anniversary of rent and that's a great show as well i mean that's been here a few times and it really is something to see so it's a it is you know they talk about a number of shows changed broadway and rent was one of them about twenty years ago how milton was the most recent memory i think oklahoma and showboat were other ones but i think it's so great and i heard a rent song you know b other day in the car and i'm just like so psyched about seeing it again and then we're going to have stumped coming and i think we have a little bit of noise and then we have one hundred ten years we're moving our way up to you know that's always a sell every year so you think we'll be here some day talking about hundred fifty years abroad way although they have something new every year so something always to create each year and then in another great show that i really enjoyed on broadway is finding neverland and this is about the back story of how j m barrie came to create peter pan play play and that's a wonderful story oh it is and i just so enjoyed it i mean there's a scene in it with glitter that is worth the price of a ticket i really recommend it yes david in our box office you know and then an orchestra we have some fantastic shows we have the israel filler monic and this is going to be made as last tour so if you want to see the maestro this is the time to see it and let's see a little right now great and then for dance we have ballet trocadero the monte carlo let me let you figure out what they're about all by yourself let's look at this have you seen them before yes there is a lot of fun it is so much fun and especially my favorite is when they do the dying swan yes yes and then we also have sleeping beauty coming up with the russian national ballet and then  shadowlands two because we have the first first incarnation and this is the second story and they do all things with the shadows and it's definitely interesting to see yeah it is and we have a number of different packages how can people buy tickets  well right now we're on subscriptions you can call the box office nine four one nine five three three three six a or you can stop by as well and you have any questions box office always open for any questions that you have and i  think there's if you don't i think we have like ten broadway shows and if you can't go to all of them we do have some special packages where you can pick and choose i think it's for more and more and you get a discount for most shows and that's the way to go because then you have your tickets in hand because you can imagine when we brought in the asked some of the cast of lion king and it was we had a big event here and that was that all people wanted word to buy a subscription so they could get a lion king right here in the hall  you buy a subscription package you can actually get ten percent off individual shows as well so that so that and you also get the first shot because many times we have shows here that sell out yes and if if you have a subscription you get to buy tickets the day before for other things yes that's good now well listen we will be back in just a minute with one of our great sponsors and a good friend of yours maverick johnson is going to be with us and we're going to talk a little bit about the  radio the participation of residents and 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 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our country listeners grew up listening to ninety eight degrees absolutely good to know absolutely so we love being a part of the family and i fell in love with leann rimes with her whole take on the christmas show you know it was really beautifully done i was i was very impressed and then wynonna rocked the house you know well they've both two great jobs they both have amazing voice they do they do so that's a good thing but you are a florida boy you grew up around here yeah first grade i went to venice elementary middle and high school oh my gosh yeah and went to broadcasting school in tampa and never left had some opportunities to do radio in some other cities and i just couldn't pull the trigger i mean we live in paradise we do live in paradise i know every time you know somebody talks to you about moving somewhere else you're you know you go oh my gosh because i was ten years in fort myers before i came up here in a year in between up north and there was there was a big storm and i'm like i'm out of here you know the snow and ice are not for me right now and that's why my parents moved down when i was in first grade lived in the northeast and i asked my dad one year we would go back up for christmas i'm going with the sun never shines since you know like that's why we live in florida so that is why if we are so lucky consider a sort of such a stunningly beautiful town but you've been in radio for quite some time i guess twenty five years of them so how has radio changed how is it different now it's interesting i think in the couple of years where i started i think i'm kind of blessed in one sense because i got to see the complete evolution when i first started interning in the early ninety's we were still playing it was kind of a mix of three things we were playing some a track still some now and c d s and so we segue it out of the tracks and slowly then said wait out of the c d s and went straight into everything being m p three so i got to see really all of that and we went from kind of doing things manually to now everything is on a computer so i was really blessed to see all of that kind of transition to you did you get to pick all the music that was on your show or has it become corporate now that it's dictated to a different way obviously it's the same as it was then there's usually each radio station has a program director and we basically follow the charts for a country station we take a look at the top forty what's kind of trending we'll take a look at some listener requests what we're seeing now we use social media before it was all off the request line if you will and then we'll talk to other cities and kind of see if there's something emerging or new in breaking it it's kind of a goulash if you want it's pot and that's kind of how a playlist is a term and it was that way in the ninety's and it's kind of still that way to a degree now a number of our broadway shows like i'm thinking back to million dollar court and motown recently it talked about the struggles of people or on your feet which is coming up next year with glorious upon the struggles of getting a record on the radio how it is there's some way to do that for people out there that may be listening that want to get their record played you know it's interesting it really has changed before it was you would kind of court the record companies and try to get a connection with the someone in the business now a days in country we've had significant kane brown come to mind who have done it themselves with social media you tube facebook and instagram and we have people that contact the station and contact me personally all the time and will hand me a cd and i said really what you need to do is you need to record a video put it on youtube it doesn't have to be professional you can if you want and start with your friends and family and just kind of network on your own now that's really an instagram create a facebook page and become and that's how a lot of these new artists not all of them but a good portion of them are really making their own way their own way and then when a record company sees that you've got thousands of user millions of views either on social media or on you tube then all of sudden they're interested because they don't have to break you and get you discovered people kind of some a small percentage but a good chunk already know who you are yeah well is that it's very interesting to me because you know where they talked about back in the days with albus presently and all the things that colonel parker did and you know and so they didn't have social media in those days you know it's a totally different game now and i kind of like it i think it evens the playing field out instead of knowing me if i were going to radio station or some of the record label and you still might have a chance that way but nowadays it's kind of the product sells itself yeah it really does well we're almost out of time and i've only started to ask you a question because this is so interesting so we have to have you back when lou can join us as well if people want to get in touch with you or look at it do you have a website for ok well we will be back in just a minute but we are so grateful to having maverick here maverick here what a great national resource you are here in our community and we're grateful to have you here thank you for having me and we'll be back in a minute every day forty four people in the u s die from drug overdose but they don't have to do in florida if you're trying to save the life of another person you're protected from prosecution by the good samaritan you just save your life  country music it's so funny how country music has changed over the years you know because we tend to find that the older country stars you know do better here the dolly parton's and the kenny rogers but you know some of the the problem is right but you know when we when we talk about being off you know because we finished our shows because there for a while folks we do a show every night for from like november october through april and the staff and i are just dead but it doesn't stop then because i'm constantly booking and you're working on marketing plans for you know because we have our on sale in september and we're working on subscriptions so it really keeps you busy d something new new artwork new brochures every year every think but just so that we don't you know forget how it is to put on a show we do friday facts yes now you were here at the beginning of friday for us were you know yes and what is this idea come start out all jazz if i remember correctly that was all jazz so it definitely progressed to different music each month because when i got here i remember it being all jazz i thought gee you know we should really mix it up a little bit so different people can come to like different segments of music yes and that has grown i mean we have a few thousand people and they you know different people come early they leave the after work crowd the crowd that comes out before the going out crowd  it's it's great and it's a good place to bring family i mean your kids have enjoyed it haven't they yes and you know you have a great dancing you know sort of the stage and so many people bring their dogs i would bring my precious tinkerbell  attacks every animal known to mankind it would be a pleasant day for me but let's talk about some of the acts we have coming up june twenty two i know this is one of my favorite groups movement what kind of music they are they playing their was i think he's been you know since he was like two or three years old i know five or six now just adorable and she is such a great singer and she's a friend to us because she works for visit sarasota and does an amazing job in that june the twenty second and they usually start around what five o'clock ish five o'clock until nine o'clock so yeah if we had more lights out on the lawn we could go later but then we might keep some people up at night you know so we have to be careful about that too but it's great because like you said to kind of squeeze in to get some room so we have a lot of people dancing and i know one lady in particular goes why and when the dancing it's just a beautiful evening and i remember the year that the wedding chapel floated and people come out in their boats and anchor up it's great to have our lawns packed but yes the water also used the boats coming up and the beautiful sunset now apparently we're going to have the dunk tank tank for every event because we're always trying to you know raise money for different causes but that should be good and that is july twenty seventh and we'll be really excited to have them and then on august seventeenth we have and that's country you know so that's another another great one that you know we have a lot of people come out and have some country you know and we're to we have food trucks here you know and we have different kinds of food trucks i mean there's ice cream there's hamburgers we've had pizza here they're talking about is it good korean one this time  wasn't sure but they try to mix it up and have different kinds of food we have some great barbecue and yes my favorite is always the ice cream but it's usually hot and then of course madison's who is our fantastic caterer here at the hall does a great job and of course thanks to the gulf coast gold coast eagles they provide beer that we were able to sell to help raise money because this goes to supporting the haul so it's a good cause a good cheap way to have an evening on the water you know and come out and meet new people you see grandmothers and you see little tiny babies now our last show is the dr dave bin and that's september fourteenth what do you feel about them oh oh they came last year and they were really good i was i didn't know anything about them but they definitely the same thing they have the piled up dancing and southern rock and bluegrass ye know i'm going to miss that one i'm going to be in nashville that day you know at a conference and but i'm really disappointed i won't be here we'll get some good footage for you would you would you please do that and then we have the foundation's giving challenge that's coming up and the community foundation of sarasota as a two thousand eight hundred giving challenge and where we as a special partnership with the early learning coalition and you've worked with them before because your kids have been involved yeah they  actually they provide books actually to kids to promote reading and that's something another campaign that we did this year to get parents to really reach their children and help the portions of it and we really hope you will follow west of the van ways the foundation the salvation dot org and that's how you can go on there and donate but if you donate between no noon on may first and noon may the second the patter patterson foundation will match your donation up to one hundred dollars and this really helps us with our fantastic education program we have thirty thousand kids that come to see our school time shows we have master classes we have literacy nights family literacy nights i know would become a big thing here and the only way that we're able to bring thirty thousand school children free on a bus to come see shows and then like you you know when your kids learning to grow up and go to the theater and then i everything just kind of puts your message out there i have to learn these new things which i'm sure is very old right now but anyway we really hope i hope you will support the band waves will we have a great program all year you know if we're not busy with our shows in the in the winter time we are busy with educational opportunities we have a giving we have a total access program where we are in families and in families get free tickets to see shows and come to here to dinner we have a similar program for seniors we're just a franchise and we have one for the military all three are causes of ours and these these donations will really help us a lot and if be back soon in august we'll be announcing the shows for all the pops bigger than the rock concerts and we really have an incredible lineup for next year is and i'm keeping my fingers crossed we're going out with a big superstar