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Philip Smith, powerhouse Broadway executive, dies at 89 of COVID
Tim Balk
Philip Smith, the beloved Brooklyn-born theater enthusiast who climbed from movie usher to the chair of the Shubert Organization, the largest Broadway theater company, died Friday at a Manhattan hospital. He was 89.
The cause of Smith’s death at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center was complications of COVID-19, said Bill Evans, a spokesperson for Shubert.
Smith, a burly Broadway powerhouse, retired in June after more than two decades as the president of Shubert and more than 60 years in the New York theater world.
He said the coronavirus crisis, which shuttered the Theater District in March, created a natural time for him to step down from his perch at the company, which operates 17 Broadway theaters. Robert Wankel succeeded him as Shubert’s chair. ....

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