Photo Flash: Inside the Drama Book Shop Benefit at Feinstein's/54 Below with Penny Fuller, The Skivvies & More!
By: Tyler Peterson Mar. 28, 2016
For 99 years, The Drama Book Shop has been a beloved New York institution, serving the theatrical community with the world's largest collection of theatre and film books. On the evening of Sunday, February 14th, The Tony Award-winning Drama Book Shop suffered a burst water pipe, destroying half the shop's inventory and doing extensive damage to the shop itself.
Over the weekend, stars of stage and shop employees gathered for a night of stories and songs to celebrate and benefit the legendary Drama Book Shop at Feinstein's/54 Below. Check out photos from the night below!
The legendary shop has been much-talked about lately, after Lin-Manuel Miranda (of Hamilton fame) launched an internet campaign to bring sales into the flooded shop. In just a few short days, New York's theatrical community joined together to celebrate the shop -- and save it, too. Thanks to Lin-Manuel Miranda's #Ham4Ham video and Twitter campaign encouraging fans to #BuyABook, online sales sky-rocketed and in-store traffic doubled. With support fromHoward Sherman and other theatre luminaries, many customers called in to order "$200 worth of books, doesn't matter what they are".
The lineup featured Alex Boniello (Spring Awakening), Chuck Cooper (Tony Award-winner, The Life, Caroline or Change, Amazing Grace)Bobby Cronin, David Cryer (The Phantom of the Opera, 1776, Chess), composerNancy Ford, Penny Fuller (Applause, Dividing The Estate, A New Brain), Patti Mariano (The Full Monty, Rags, original cast member of The Music Man), Sally Mayes (She Loves Me, Closer Than Ever), Gabrielle Ruiz(Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, If/Then, In The Heights) and The Skvivies. Also featured are Phyllis Blanford, Britt Cryer, Janet Fanale, Kristen Gehling, James Horan, Polly McKie, The NYCity Slickers, Red Wine + Whiskey, Paul Thomas Ryan, Crystal Skillman, Vanessa Spica and Shawn Verrier with Steven Carl McCasland on piano.
The evening also featured various auction and raffle items, including two tickets to HAMILTON, followed by a backstage meet-and-greet with the show's director, Thomas Kail.
Photos by Samantha Mercado-Tudda
Drama Book Shop employees Shawn Verrier, Kalyne Coleman, Danny Blanda, Abigail Hardin and Steven Carl McCasland
Musical Director and Drama Book Shop employee, Steven Carl McCasland
Jean Ann Garrish, Britt Cryer, Polly McKie and Vanessa Spica
Paul Thomas Ryan and Sally Mayes
The NYCity Slickers
David and Britt Cryer
Jean Ann Garrish
Crystal Skillman, Bobby Cronin and Ali Stroker
Drama Book Shop employee Danny Blanda
Tony Award-winner Chuck Cooper
The Story Pirates
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Gabrielle Ruiz
Phyllis Blanford and Drama Book Shop employee Kalyne Coleman
Jeanine Robinson and James Horan with members of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus
The 32-Bar Cut Medley Performers
Crystal Skillman and Bobby Cronin
Composer James Horan
Steven Carl McCasland and Tony Award nominee Sally Mayes
NYCity Slickers give their regards to Broadway... bluegrass style!
NYCity Slickers singers Kimberly Harris, Abigail Hardin and Annie Chadwick
Drama Book Shop staff member Kalyne Coleman
The Skivvies perform "I Like Musicals"
Drama Book Shop Social Media Manager Steven Carl McCasland
Original cast member of The Music Man, Patti Mariano
Tony Award nominee Sally Mayes
Britt and David Cryer
Drama Book Shop staff member Shawn Verrier
Tony Award winner Chuck Cooper
Spring Awakening's Ali Stroker
Paul Thomas Ryan with Janet Fanale, Kristen Gehling, Polly McKie and Vanessa Spica, performing the 32-Bar Cut Audition Medley
Members of The Story Pirates, the resident theatre company at The Drama Book Shop
Red Wine + Whiskey
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Gabrielle Ruiz
Penny Fuller sings "One Halloween" from Applause
Jeanine Robinson leads members of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus
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