At 16 he accepted a job at an insurance firm owned by brother-in-law Ben Tick.
In addition to his Broadway ventures, Markinson produced Off Broadway and regional stagings of I Love a Piano, And a Nightingale Sang, Pageant: The Musical and The Sunshine Boys, among others.īorn in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Markinson took his first job at age 12 as a newspaper boy before working as a shoe store stock boy, a restaurant busboy, a bowling alley pin-setter, and movie theater usher. Markinson also leased three other theaters as an operator: the Wadsworth and Brentwood Theatres in Los Angeles between 19, and the Parker Playhouse in Ft. The $24.7 million sale gave Broadway it’s fourth non-profit theater company, and its first devoted entirely to the development of contemporary American productions. Second Stage, which in 2008 had first expressed interest in buying what remains Broadway’s smaller theater. The theater remained with the Markinson-Tick families until 2015, when it was sold to the not-for-profit Second Stage theater. Hayes accepted the offer (she died in 1993). (for a reported $800,000), they offered to rename the theater for actress Helen Hayes, whose namesake theater on West 46th Street had recently been demolished. Four years after Markinson and Tick purchased the venue from Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.
Showbiz & Media Figures We've Lost In 2021 - Photo GalleryĪnother of Markinson’s contributions to Broadway: The 1979 purchase, with nephew Donald Tick, of what was then called the Little Theatre, a gorgeous West 44th Street venue built in 1912 that had been used for decades as a TV studio for ABC and, later, the syndicated The Merv Griffin Show.
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