The Shubert Organization

The Shubert Organization is the oldest existing American theatrical production company. It has been conducted since 1900 by the Shubert family ( Shubert Bros. ). Your still owns most of the theater building on Broadway in New York (17 in total ) and several other theaters in the United States. Since 1945, the Shubert Foundation is the sole owner of a non-profit organization.

History

The Shubert Organization, goes back to their theater productions of brothers Sam, Lee and Jacob J. Shubert at the end of the 19th century who came from Syracuse (New York). Thither her father Duvvid Schubart was 1882 ( today Kudirkos Naumiestis ) immigrated with the family from the Lithuanian Neustadt- Schirwindt, which then belonged to Russia and had a large Jewish community. - Even the usually unmentioned sisters, Fannie, Sarah and Dora had their share in building the company.

Since 1900, she worked in New York City, with increasing success. They broke the monopoly of the 1896 founded by Charles Frohman Theatrical Syndicate and became the world's largest theatrical producers. They engaged stars such as Richard Mansfield, Sarah Bernhardt, Alla Nazimova and Eleonora Duse. In 1911 she produced by Max Reinhardt spectacle Sumurun. On Broadway, she built the Winter Garden Theatre, the Shubert Theatre and the Imperial Theatre and bought another theater like the Belasco Theatre and the Majestic Theatre.

In the midst of the 1920s operated the Shubert Brothers over a thousand theater building in the United States. Eddie Cantor, Fred Astaire or Cary Grant appeared in their stage shows. Many of the theaters were later closed or converted to cinemas, some of which carry to this day the name Shubert. In the world economic crisis in 1929, the Shubert Brothers made ​​do with restructuring. They brought the Ziegfeld Follies and other revues later as the dance musical Hellzapoppin ' (1938 ) out.

Jacob J. Shubert died 1963. In the 1970s, the Shubert Organization was active again as a theater producer for a change of leadership. She directed and funded successful, mostly known in Europe as a film music and drama productions to Broadway and Off- Broadway such as Is not Misbehavin ' (1978), Amadeus (1980 ), Children of a Lesser God ( 1980), The Little Shop of Horrors (1982 ), revivals of classic Broadway hits and acquisitions from London as Cats (1982).

The Shubert Organization, thus contributing to the preservation of the historic theater building on Broadway. Since the 1980s, the telephone and later the electronic ticket sales ( telecharge.com ) is its commercial foothold.