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Fox Considers Expanding Universe
Oliver photographed by The Wrap
Peter photographed by The Wrap
Pre-Series
Bradley Buecker Joins as Director/EP
Aisha, Kenny, Oliver and Rockmond Join
Season 1
“Connie Was Always Signed for 1 Season”
Season 2
Corinne Massiah and Marcanthonee Reis to Series Regulars
Charisma Carpenter to Guest Star
Charisma Carpenter’s scene put on hold by Network Censors
Christine Estabrook to Guest Star
Season 3
Season 4
John Harlan Kim to Series Regular
Season 5
Vanessa Estelle Williams to Recur
Rockmond Dunbar Exits Show(+ Lawsuit)
Season 6
How the Hamilton team gave the iconic Drama Book Shop in Manhattan a new and improved lease of life
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.”
This 3,500-pound tribute to theatrical history is the centerpiece of the century-old bookstore’s new location, opening Thursday on West 39th Street.
The shop — like so many bookstores around the country — had brushes with death, caused not only by e-commerce but also by fire and flood, before encountering a rent hike it could not withstand in 2018. The beloved institution, where students, artists, scholars and fans could browse memoirs and bone up for auditions, was in danger of closing.
Then came an unexpected rescue. Four men enriched by Hamilton — the musical’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda; its director, Thomas Kail; its lead producer, Jeffrey Seller; and the theater owner, James L Nederlander — bought the store from its longtime owners. Kail has a particularly close relationship with the shop; 20 years ago, just out of college, he formed a small theater company in its basement. After he teamed with Miranda, the two worked on In the Heights there.
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The bookstore is opening the same day that a film adaptation of In the Heights is scheduled to be released in theaters and on HBO Max, and Kail noted the thematic connections.
“Heights is about a different place in Manhattan where rents are going up and businesses are getting forced out,” he said. “There’s an obvious and clear line.”
The Hamilton team closed the store’s previous location on West 40th Street in January 2019 and put its contents in storage, anticipating reopening at a still-to-be-determined location later that year. But New York real estate being what it is, finding that location and renovating it took longer than anticipated. Then the pandemic arrived, closing theaters, disrupting the retail and tourism sectors, and quieting midtown.
Now, the Drama Book Shop is back, just as Broadway gears up for a late summer return.
“As all the theaters are starting to put dates out there, it feels like we’re part of that opening gesture,” Kail said.
Visitors can pick up books about theater (including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s presciently titled memoir, Unmasked) as well as “the play that just won a prize and the play that no one’s heard about,” Kail said. The store will also sell rare books, such as a first edition of Three Tall Women, signed by Edward Albee, and a first-edition script of West Side Story.
Like many bookstores, the owners hope to augment their income with a coffee bar and food. But there’s a personal flourish: Among the coffees sold will be a blend from Puerto Rico, part of Miranda’s effort to support farmers on the island where his parents are from.
“My hope is that we can continue to be a hub for the theater community,” Miranda said. “I don’t expect we’ll make a great fortune, but I hope with the coffee we’ll break even.”
How ‘In the Heights’ rose up to movie size: A talk with Lin-Manuel Miranda, director Jon M. Chu and star Anthony Ramos
Back to the beginning for a minute. “I’ve been working on ‘In the Heights’ half my life,” Miranda says. He’s now 41. “I started to write it as a sophomore at Wesleyan University, because I loved the art form and didn’t see any roles for me in it, besides Bernardo in ‘West Side Story’ and Paul in ‘A Chorus Line.’ And you and I both know I don’t dance well enough to play either of those roles. And that’s it for Puerto Rican dudes.”
So he wrote a musical, preceded by some short musicals Miranda describes as “Larsonesque,” i.e., in the vein of “Rent” and “Tick, Tick … BOOM!” by the late Jonathan Larson. “I’d already been writing it with Tommy Kail (who later won a Tony for directing “Hamilton”) for a couple of years. But it really got good when Quiara (Alegría Hudes) came on board for the libretto.”
“Hamilton” took years to develop, but it was nothing compared to “In the Heights.”
“So much harder than ‘Hamilton,’” Miranda says, “because the one thing anyone from Oscar Hammerstein on down will tell you is: Do not start your career with an original musical. They’re much harder. It’s easier to adapt an existing story, because you can create a spine and see where the songs go. With ‘In the Heights,’ every song we wrote changed the spine, which changed the shape. Which changed the show.”
The off-Broadway premiere, starring Miranda as Usnavi, came in 2007; the 2008 Broadway transfer sparked Hollywood studio interest in making a movie out of it.
“It was about as cliché as a Hollywood process could be,” Miranda says. “We win the Tony, and the studios say we’ll do anything to make this movie. And then we encountered the self-perpetuating cycle of: ‘Well, there are no Latino movie stars, so we can’t make it.’ And I’m thinking, well, if you don’t make the movie, there won’t be any Latino stars! ‘They don’t test well internationally.’ Well, they won’t test internationally, because you don’t make movies with Latino stars and release them internationally!” He smiles but the memory, clearly, rankles.
Years later, after interest in “In the Heights” had bounced around awhile, Miranda hooked up with producer Scott Sanders, who got Chu and Warner Bros. on board. Needless to say, Miranda says, “this was post-’Hamilton,’ and they were, like, ‘What else ya got?’”
Pacific Northwest’s ‘forest gardens’ were deliberately planted by Indigenous people
“That suggests the forest gardens were not only deliberately cultivated by Indigenous gardeners, but also remained resilient in the face of dominant local flora long after people left the scene, the researchers report today in Ecology and Society. The mix of different species was probably key to their persistence, Miller says: “There’s less open niche space, so it’s harder for new species to come in.”
The forest gardens were filled with plants that benefited humans, but they also continue to provide food for birds, bears, and insect pollinators, even after 150 years of neglect. It’s evidence that human impact on the environment can have long-lasting positive effects. “A lot of functional diversity studies have a ‘humans are bad for the environment’ approach,” Armstrong says. “This shows humans have the ability to not just allow biodiversity to flourish, but to be a part of it.””
An ancestral Ts'msyen village site in northwestern British Columbia still harbors a distinct mix of species beneficial to humans at least 150 years after it was planted. Storm Carroll.
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First kiwi corridor opened with release of the iconic birds
CW: The article contains an image and a video of a kiwi who has been attacked by a dog. It has a bare patch on its side where feathers are missing, but otherwise the photo is not graphic, and it seems from the article that she has recovered.
Apr 21 2021:
New Zealand’s first kiwi corridor has opened in Northland with the release of 10 of the iconic birds.
The predator-controlled corridor is on Whangārei’s east coast, allowing kiwis to have free rein between Whangārei Heads and Tutukaka Coast.
The 14,000ha corridor means kiwi thriving in these two areas are able to wander and, hopefully, interbreed, said Kiwi Coast co-ordinator Ngaire Sullivan.
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