How Hamilton saved a bookstore from dying
The coffee bar in the Drama Book Shop, in Manhattan, June 6, 2021. The beloved century-old bookstore, where students, artists, scholars and fans could browse memoirs and bone up for auditions, was in danger of closing in 2018 when four men enriched by Hamilton, including the musicals creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, bought it. The new location on West 39th Street opens on Thursday, June 10, 2021. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Michael Paulson
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- A sculptural representation of a bookworm 140 feet of scripts and songbooks, twisted along a steel skeleton corkscrews across the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan. It starts with ancient Greek texts and, 2,400 volumes later, spills into in a pile that includes Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.
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