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In the 1980s, with Mr. Wankel, he helped found Telecharge, Shubert’s national ticketing service, which began with phone sales and later incorporated internet sales. Shubert also contributed a major share of the $12.5 billion that Broadway generated yearly to the city’s economy, including production costs, ticket prices, tourism and ancillary spending, according to the Broadway League, the industry trade group. Privately held, Shubert does not report finances, but its reach and Mr. Smith’s influence were undoubted. As the owner of 40 percent of Broadway’s 41 theaters, the organization had hefty shares of their audiences and revenues of about $1.5 billion before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the industry for most of last year and into this one. Leask has also reported on most of the major incidents and events in New Zealand during that period including the Christchurch quakes, Pike River mine disaster, March 15 terror attack and the White Island eruption. From complex murder tria...