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  Lee Shubert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Levi "Lee" Shubert (March 25, 1871 – December 25, 1953) was a Polish-born American theatre owner/operator and producer and a member of the Shubert family.
Shubert teamed up with John Cort, a Seattle, Washington theater owner who was unhappy with the operating methods of the all-powerful Theatrical Syndicate.
Lee Shubert died in New York City in 1953 and was interred in the family plot at Salem Fields Cemetery in Brooklyn.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lee_Shubert   (394 words)

  
 Shubert family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Shubert family of New York City, New York is synonymous with theatre in the United States and the creation of the Broadway district as the pinnacle for theatrical productions.
Unfortunately, David Shubert, as his name translated to English, suffered from alcoholism and was not able to properly provide for his family.
Introduced to the world of the theatre, the Shubert brothers overcame the stranglehold on the industry by the Theatrical Syndicate's monopoly under Abe Erlanger and Mark Klaw to build the largest theatre empire in the 20th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shubert_family   (299 words)

  
 Broadway: The American Musical . Stars Over Broadway . Shubert Brothers | PBS
David Shubert, an alcoholic, could not support his family in their new home, and the boys were forced to go to work.
The rapid growth of the Shubert Company was a threat to the Syndicate, a group of producers and theater owners who literally controlled American theater in the early 20th century.
Jacob Shubert died in 1963 at the age of 85.
www.pbs.org /wnet/broadway/stars/shubert_bros.html   (1200 words)

  
 Folly Theater History - Shuberts Missouri Theater
The Shuberts, a prominent New York family that ran one of the largest theater conglomerates of the twentieth century, had acquired a lease on the Century Theatre.
Renamed the Shubert’s Missouri and commonly referenced as “the Missouri,” the theater became an island of legitimacy in the midst of the chaos of Twelfth Street, presenting the plays of Shakespeare and Eugene O’Neill, and featuring top-rated performers.
The Sam S. Shubert on the corner of Tenth and Baltimore was the only remaining first-ratehouse in the city, because the others had all become “second-rate” due to their popular pricing policies and vaudeville bills.
www.follytheater.com /history_shuberts.html   (1265 words)

  
 CASDE | Shubert -- Richardson County
The village of Shubert, which clusters atop a north-south rise in the rolling prairie west of the Missouri River, is our town.
Henry W. Shubert, for whom the town is named, purchased the land from a member of the Deroin family in 1869.
Shubert's centennial was celebrated in 1983 with a parade, fireworks, and day-long activities.
www.casde.unl.edu /history/counties/richardson/shubert   (695 words)

  
 Archive Obituaries - January 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the St. Elizabeth's Church memorial fund, 110 Sugarwood Drive, Knoxville, TN 37934.
The family suggest, memorials may be made to the Knoxville Rescue Ministries, 418 North Broadway, Knoxville, TN 37917.
The family requests memorial donations be made to Calvary Baptist Church, P. Box 764, Lenoir City, TN 37771, or to the Highland Park Elementary School, 4404 Hwy 11 E., Lenoir City, Tn.
www.clickfuneralhome.com /ArcJan2006.htm   (7078 words)

  
 Leader to Leader Institute Nonprofit Innovation Discovery Site
However, the Shubert recognized larger challenges to be addressed, such as how to make it possible for family units, no matter the makeup, to share in the experience; and how to equitably distribute this opportunity throughout its neighborhoods, schools, and local service organizations.
Through the Shubert Family Club, inner-city families of multiple ethnicities have enjoyed a fun, entertaining and culturally enriching evening; and perceived barriers of inaccessibility and intimidation are being lowered.
In addition, pre- and post-show visits with the Shubert staff, and a tour of the facilities ensure that every one in the family is comfortable, has fun, and comes away with memories they are able to share and discuss as afamily.
pfdf.org /innovation/innovation/innovation.asp?innov_id=74   (617 words)

  
 Archive March 2002 Click Obituaries
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be made to the Neew Providence Baptist Church Building Fund, 245 White Road, Leoudon, TN 37774.
He is survived by his children: Peggy Shubert and husband, Leonard, Shirley Weaver and husband, Doyle and George Jenkins all of Lenoir City; grandchildren: Debbie Clabough of Dalton, Ga., Kathy Helton, Sandra Shubert, Kimberly Weaver and Eddie Weaver all of Lenoir City; eight great grandchildren and five great - great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
The family wishes to thank Tammy Parker and Mirela Holbura for their wonderful care and Hospice of Knoxville for their kind and loving attention.
www.clickfuneralhome.com /archives/2002/ArcMar2002.htm   (4877 words)

  
 CAPA Columbus - Venues - Shubert Theater
The Shubert brothers ran the theater from 1914 through the 1940-41 season, establishing the pattern of try-outs.
The Shubert, New Haven re-opened in December 1983.
In addition to managing the legendary Shubert Theater in New Haven, Connecticut, CAPA is owner/operator of downtown Columbus, Ohio’s magnificent historic theatres (Ohio Theatre, Palace Theatre, Southern Theatre) and manager of the contemporary Riffe Center Theatre Complex.
www.capa.com /columbus/venues/shubert_history.php   (1181 words)

  
 Leader to Leader Institute Nonprofit Innovation Discovery Database -- Innovation of the Week -- Email Archives
The Shubert Family Club was developed by the Shubert Performing Arts Center in New Haven, Connecticut to provide diverse inner- city families with an opportunity to experience high quality performing arts programs at no charge.
In the mid-1990s, The Shubert's average audience was approximately 85% white, 40-65 years of age, with an annual income of $40,000- $60,000.
The Shubert Family Club has become a core arts resource for the New Haven community and furthers the Shubert's mission to create new forms of access for all people to the finest performing arts events.
www.pfdf.org /innovation/innov_of_week/email00/oct11.html   (713 words)

  
 Coney Island Lighthouse, New York at Lighthousefriends.com
During his years of service, Shubert was credited with saving the lives of fifteen sailors and was invited for a visit to the White House by President George H. Bush.
The family of Keeper Frank Shubert have established a website to honor his years of service at Coney Island Lighthouse, and they are also trying to obtain the lighthouse when it is excessed by the Coast Guard.
Given the care the Shubert family has given to the lighthouse and grounds over the years, they would certainly be great stewards of the property.
www.lighthousefriends.com /light.asp?ID=394   (1165 words)

  
 Posen Research List Archive - POSRL-991
I believe the family was originally from southern France and emigrated to Prussia to avoid persecution against Huguenots.
Family lore says that her parents died during an epidemic while she was a teenager, and then in the early 1880's she emigrated to Bermuda.
The DALKE family is closely related to either Martin or to one of his two wives, as Gustave Dahlke and Ludwig Shubert are first cousins.
feefhs.org /de/pos/posrl/posrl-991.html   (3356 words)

  
 Katherine Egan Transcript
The Shubert family brought in the Marx Brothers in December of 1923 for the first four months it had been open it was not making money, Kansas City was still going for the vaudeville and the burlesque end.
It was not really the place to be and there was a lot of discussion among the Shubert family whether or not to open a family stock house here because it wasn’t the place for it.
And the theater had changed names in 1923 to become Shubert’s Missouri Theater it had been the Century it became Shubert’s Missouri and it was always referred to as the Missouri Theater and she showed up with her little troupe.
www.kcpt.org /uniquely_kc/series/transcripts/egan2.html   (1257 words)

  
 The Last Shubert by Gary Pearlman: Give my regards to Broadway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
That the Shubert brothers, Sam, Lee (Levi) and J.J., (Jacob) nearly illiterate and from humble beginnings could become the most ruthless titans in the history of the American theater speaks volumes about their defiant amoral grit.
The Shuberts family life was from the beginning a series of battles and betrayals.
He would no longer have any role in the day to affairs of the Shubert Organization, and for the first time since 1900, the largest and most powerful and durable theatrical empire in the history of American theater was managed by people who were not members of the Shubert family.
www.themiamibeachtimes.com /Pages/Broadway.html   (5942 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Shuberts Present: 100 Years of American Theater: Books: Maryann Chach,Reagan Fletcher,Mark Evan ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The brothers Shubert Sam, Lee, and J.J. are synonymous with 20th-century American theater.
At the zenith of their magisterial reign, the Shubert empire encompassed 104 playhouses, theatrical bookings into 1000 theaters across the country, and the development of hundreds of Broadway plays, musicals, and revues.
Legendary palaces like the Belasco, Majestic, Booth, Shubert, and Imperial are feted, with hundreds of detailed historical and contemporary architectural photographs, production stills, splashy gatefolds, and memorabilia mined from the Shubert archival repository by an accomplished collaborative team from the Shubert Organization, who also provide an engaging and active text.
www.amazon.com /Shuberts-Present-Years-American-Theater/dp/0810906147   (1393 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
CNN's Atika Shubert is in northern Indonesia in Banda Aceh, one of the places most thoroughly devastated on that fateful day.
SHUBERT: Now later in this speech, the president also admitted that the reconstruction process here hasn't gone as quickly as many people hoped, especially for the half a million people who were left homeless by this disaster.
SHUBERT (voice-over): Aceh is a broken land -- more than 130,000 dead, more than 30,000 still missing and half a million homeless.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0512/25/snn.01.html   (6147 words)

  
 Internet Broadway Database: Lee Shubert Credits on Broadway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The Shubert Theatrical Company, The Shuberts, Jolson Theatre Musical Comedy Company, The Winter Garden Company, Messrs.
Shubert (Lee and J. Shubert Theatre Corporation (Lee and J. Shubert, Directors), Shubert Advanced Vaudeville Circuit, Sam S. and Lee Shubert, Inc., Messrs.
Shubert (Sam and Lee), The Shubert Organization (Lee and J.J. Shubert, S.H. Stone, A.H. Pincus, M.L. Goldstone, Directors)
www.ibdb.com /person.asp?id=22884   (3111 words)

  
 July 2004 Newsletter
Malseed family in the broad sense, that is. We mentioned in the last newsletter that we were planning a trip to Ireland and a Malseed family reunion there.
The winter 2004 National Convention of the Family Motor Coach Association was held in Albuquerque in March.
The Friary is on the shore of Lough Swilly.
malseed.tripod.com /newsletters/july/2004/2004.htm   (1728 words)

  
 Christmas 2000 Newsletter
The next day we drove to Richland where Garrett Shubert and nine other Shubert family members are buried.
There we found more information about the Shubert family and also shared our information with them.
The Chaparral Chapter of the Family Motor Coach Association was holding a rally there.
malseed.tripod.com /newsletters/xmas/2000/2000.htm   (1456 words)

  
 Playbill News: Alvin Cooperman, Who Worked for Shuberts, TV and Madison Square Garden, Dead at 83
Cooperman was an office boy for the Shuberts at age 16 who rose the be invited by the Shubert Organization to book shows into their Broadway theatres.
Gerald Schoenfeld, chairman of the Shubert Organization, told the paper that after the Shubert booker died in 1963, Mr.
Cooperman was an aide to Lawrence Shubert Lawrence Jr., then the chairman of the Shuberts, during a time when the company was shifting from Shubert family connections to being run by non-family executives, including Schoenfeld and Bernard B. Jacobs.
www.playbill.com /news/article/101402.html   (490 words)

  
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"Interior View of Shubert, Kansas City, Mo." pictures seating for 1,625 patrons of Kansas City's legitimate theater, with a seating capacity of 700 on the main floor, 450 on the balcony and 415 in the gallery.
The Shubert was located just west of 10th and Baltimore, with an entrance on 10th.
"Every seat in the house will be reserved, and only upholstered chairs will be used, being arranged with the comfort and safety of the public in view, the spacing and width of aisles being given special consideration by the architects," reported The Kansas City Star Sept. 15, 1905, when the Shubert was being built.
www.kclibrary.org /localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=34833   (238 words)

  
 Booth on Broadway | The Shubert Organization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Lee Shubert built the Booth Theatre in partnership with the producer Winthrop Ames.
Named for the actor Edwin Booth (1833-1893), brother to the infamous John Wilkes Booth, the venue was actually the second New York theatre to bear this name.
The Booth was designed by Henry Herts to be one of a pair of playhouses: the Booth and the Shubert Theatres abut each other along Shubert Alley in one seamless unit.
www.shubertorganization.com /theatres/booth.asp   (739 words)

  
 The Johnson County Sun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The Shubert family also had serious concerns about re-opening the theater due to the stigma of "burlesque" placed on it during the Century years.
The National Players continued presentations of some of the most popular theater pieces of the day, and continued their run for several seasons at the Missouri, including a unique presentation of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, a New England version of the Hippolytus myth.
The show was a resounding success and made the decision for the Shubert family to keep the Missouri rather than to let go of the lease.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=15292030&BRD=1459&PAG=461&dept_id=506062&rfi=6   (1980 words)

  
 American Voices: All My Sons Official Ticket Source Shubert Theatre, Boston Boston, MA Broadway Tickets by ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Joe Keller, the chief character, is a man who loves his family above all else, and has sacrificed everything, including his honor, in his struggle to make the family prosperous.
Keller is alleged to have supplied World War II fighter planes with defective engines, leading to the deaths of innocent pilots - a crime for which his business partner took the fall.
But his mother can't accept his death and equally, can't accept that her dead son's fiancée has transferred her affections to her other son.
www.telecharge.com /tickets_American_Voices_All_My_Sons_Boston_Shubert_Boston_summary.aspx   (327 words)

  
 Shubert Family Genealogy Forum (25 Latest Messages)
Shubert - Anderson Co., South Carolina/Coffee co. GA - Chrissy Tarvin 7/24/05
Guy Shubert born 1898 Nebraska, married Beulah Athey - Darlene Athey Hill 3/06/05
Shubert Family and Frazier Family in Missouri on 1860 of Census - virginia satterlee 2/26/04
genforum.genealogy.com /cgi-bin/latest.cgi?shubert   (231 words)

  
 DragRaceResults.Com Your Home For News & Results in Sportsman Racing!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Shubert and her family demonstrated what sportsmanship is all about, giving Gillen time to get his engine repaired.
Ashton Shubert made it to her second final in as many races, and “Mad Matt” Gillen won his first race of the year in 8-12 Jr.
Shubert was actually a little closer to the mark, running 9.13, 71.51mph (9.09 target).
www.dragraceresults.com /article.cfm?id=676   (1600 words)

  
 Lewis, Saxon, Shubert Family - "A Bridge to Unity"
As the transition of the LSS Reunion is made from the Atlanta group to the Augusta group, we ask that all correspondences be made via our reunion website and not this email address.
May the roots of LSS Family Tree continue to grow deep and sustain itself in waters of eternity, and may the branches continue to bloom bringing forth much Fruit of the Spirit that the world will receive our love.
This is for the benefit of those whose mailing address we may not have, as well as those who prefer to receive email correspondences along with our letters.
lewissaxonshubert.com   (752 words)

  
 Plymouth Theatre
The Plymouth Theatre was built thanks to The Shubert Family and producer/director Arthur Hopkins in 1917.
By the time The Plymouth Theatre went up, The Shubert Family succeeded in having a full block of theatres to their credit; The Plymouth and The Booth on 45th street and The Broadhurst and The Shubert Theaters on 44th street.
One of the simplest Theatres designed by Herbert Krapp, The Plymouth’s exterior is brown, blue and gold and much like its neighboring theatres was built using less costly materials such as terra cotta and brick.
www.nytix.com /Links/Broadway/Theaters/plymouth.html   (407 words)

  
 Goodspeed Musicals 2006 - News - July 8, 2004 - Goodspeed Raises $150,000 at Summer Gala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Gerald Schoenfeld took the helm of America’s oldest professional theatre company in 1972 after nearly 20 years of working with the Shubert family.
Schoenfeld stated that the Shuberts “were to theatre what Ford was to the motor car and the Wright Brothers to aviation.” Under the co-leadership of Mr.
Shubert productions once again garnered critical recognition and many were nominated for prestigious awards, including the Tony Award-winning productions of Ain’t Misbehavin’, Joe Egg, The Heidi Chronicles, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Passion and Cats, the musical with the record for the longest run on Broadway.
www.goodspeed.org /news/070804.htm   (785 words)

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