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Gerald Schoenfeld, Broadway theater group leader, dies

Gerald Schoenfeld, the powerful chairman of Broadway's Shubert Organization since 1972, died of a heart attack at his home early Tuesday morning, a spokesman said. He was 84.

Schoenfeld, an affable and shrewd power broker, was the influential public face for the American commercial theater and for the Shubert, which owns 17 Broadway theaters as well as theaters around the country. Together...

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