Drama Book Shop closing next year — Page 2

followtheneon said: "And for those wondering, they sold out of everything he signed within 30 minutes."

I called to try and get a Good morning, good night within 15 minutes of the tweet and they were already gone.

NYT reports that LMM and others are indeed buying the Drama Book Shop!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/theater/lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-drama-book-shop.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage

WOW....now THATS putting your money where your mouth is. Store will still close on the 20th, and not re-open until the fall - no location yet announced.



I'm coming into the city this weekend - partly to visit here before it disappeared. So, it will be goodbye for now. Fall has never looked further away!

This is great! I'd imagine LMM is in Puerto Rico and won't be at the bookstore's closing.

Anyway, this bookshop is the only bookshop I know of that is selling the play script of THE INHERITANCE (play is running in London's West End at the moment) so if any of you want to get a copy of the play and read it, try to get it before the bookshop closes on Jan 20th.

Such wonderful news.

With a smart producer/businessman (Jeffrey Seller) overseeing the day-to-day operations, I wonder how the "new" Bookshop will evolve? The final paragraph makes me think that maybe it would also include a coffee shop, a place to buy merch, or other resources to draw crowds and make money:

"Mr. Seller’s office, which is already running a “Hamilton” merchandise store in Midtown, will oversee the day-to-day management. He said the book shop would have a revamped website and expanded programming; the goal, he said, would be to break even, which in recent years the store has done occasionally but not consistently."

It took 25 years, but the money from Times Square has finally reached 40th street. It started about a year ago. I used to work there and just as my office moved, it started to change. Now entire strips have been closed and renovated, replaced with Pret's and Chipotle's. There's a new hotel. It all happened really fast.

The porn shop remains.I feel like landlords keep the porn shops around to be like "This area isn't so sterilized. Look! We have a porn shop!"

Actually, it would make sense for the Avenue Q team to buy it.

pacificnorthwest said: "So upset to hear this. What else has closed recently on the block? I'massuming Midtown Comics is still there -- asking for a brother and nephew."

I can't recall exactly what WAS there before as the only three things I have been to on the block are this, midtown comics, and Lot Less, but I do know that the closed stores are on the side of the book store that heads towards Port Authority, not the half of the block that runs towards Broadway so stores like Midtown are unaffected. YET at least. Lot Less is actually like the middle point of that block so really everything from Midtown to Lot is business as usual so far but then Lot Less to the end is drastically being altered.