ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "If I recall (perhaps from Michael Riedel's book), the "patriarchs" of each organization all realized they didn't need to be so cut-throat:They do similar work, theyall sit on the same Broadway League committees, they attend each other's opening nights, and ultimately their work could benefit one another.The death of Bernie Jacobs, Gerry Schoenfeld, and more recently Jimmy Nederlander might have softened everyone, too. It's a small industry, and it's not like one company has done exceptionally well at the expense of the other."
It makes sense. Certainly a lot of what Schoenfeld seems to have helped Bway as a whole. But, things do seem a little more evenly spread in that the Shuberts aren't running everything in town anymore.
