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.
Al Hayman was born to a Jewish family[1] in Wheeling, West Virginia.
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.
[5] Hayman retired from the theatrical field, leaving his interests to his brother, Alf, and moved to Europe in 1911.