Al Hayman, also known as Raphael Hayman, (1847 – February 10, 1917) was the business partner of the better-known Charles Frohman who together with others established the Theatrical Syndicate. In addition to the financial backing, ownership and construction of new theaters and the early monopolisation of the booking networks, the Syndicate also produced a number of Broadway shows.
BiographyEdit
Al Hayman was born to a Jewish family[1] in Wheeling, West Virginia. He began his theatrical career as a manager for a tour of The Black Crook in 1871.[2] In 1883, Hayman traveled to San Francisco and, leasing the Baldwin Theatre, became its producing manager, becoming a well-known manager. Around 1989 he moved to New York and bought the play Shenandoah with Charles Frohman. He also gained control of a theater in Chicago, starting the wide ownership of theaters.[3] In 1896 he, along with Frohman, Marc Klaw, A.L. Erlanger, Samuel F. Nixon and J. Fred Zimmerman Sr. established the Theatrical Syndicate.[3] This group established systemized booking networks throughout the United States and created a monopoly that controlled every aspect of contracts and bookings until the late 1910s, when the Shubert brothers broke their hold on the industry. Hayman concentrated on investments in real estate.
Hayman retired from the theatrical field, leaving his interests to his brother, Alf, and moved to Europe in 1911.[3] Hayman died on February 10, 1917, in New York City.[6]
ReferencesEdit
^Rosenbaum, Fred (5 November 2009). Cosmopolitans A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area. S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies. p. 80. ISBN9780520945029.
^Bordman, Gerald and Hischak, Thomas."Al Hayman" The Oxford Companion to American Theatre, 2004, Oxford University Press, ISBN0-19-516986-7, p.298
^ abc"Al Hayman Quits Theatrical Field" The New York Times, August 11, 1911
^"Knickerbocker Theatre history" ibdb.com, accessed December 4, 2011
^"Empire Theatre History" ibdb.com, accessed December 4, 2011
^Al Hayman Dies Suddenly", The New York Times, February 10, 1917, p. 9
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