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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller
What do you get when a freelance writer in NYC writes a letter to a used bookseller in London searching for a book? The beginning of a 20-year relationship. 84, Charing Cross Road is a delightful, poignant, funny classic love story that will charm your heart now as it did when it was first published in 1970.
This wonderful show is a dramatization of business letters between a young struggling writer in New York and an antiquarian book store in London. In a sense, these are also love letters. They are about the love of good literature. The play takes place over a twenty year period, beginning in 1949 when Helene Hanff (played on Broadway by Ellen Burstyn) first writes Marks & Co. and ends in 1969 with the death of Frank Doel, the delightfully dusty supplier of so many old volumes to Helen who ha...