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  • Sheldon Harnick, Lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof and More, Dies at 99

    06/23/2023 7:53:17 AM PDT · by Borges · 27 replies
    Playbill ^ | 6/23/23 | MARGARET HALL, ROBERT SIMONSON
    Lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who, with composer Jerry Bock, forged one of Broadway's most successful Broadway composing teams, responsible for such classics as Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me, has passed away. He was 99. The news was confirmed via Harnick's longtime publicist Sean Katz. If Mr. Harnick and Mr. Bock had done nothing else than musicalize the tales of Yiddish writer Sholom Alechim into the bittersweet tale of the joys and trials of family and tradition called Fiddler on the Roof, their place in musical theatre history would be secure. First on Broadway in 1964, it ran for...