Sheldon Harnick

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Sheldon Harnick

American composer and lyricist

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Jerry Bock
With the composer-lyricist Sheldon Harnick he had his greatest successes: Fiorello! (1959, Pulitzer Prize) and Fiddler on the Roof (1964). Bock and Harnick’s other musicals included The Body Beautiful (1958), Tenderloin (1960), the admired She Loves Me (1963), The Apple Tree
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With the composer-lyricist Sheldon Harnick he had his greatest successes: Fiorello! (1959, Pulitzer Prize) and Fiddler on the Roof (1964). Bock and Harnick’s other musicals included The Body Beautiful (1958), Tenderloin (1960), the admired She Loves Me (1963), The Apple Tree
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Fiddler on the Roof
Composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick began creating the show, and Joseph Stein then wrote the libretto. Fiddler on the Roof premiered at the Imperial Theater on Broadway in New York City in September 1964; that production ran for a record-breaking 3,242 performances and won nine Tony Awards. The…
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Composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick began creating the show, and Joseph Stein then wrote the libretto. Fiddler on the Roof premiered at the Imperial Theater on Broadway in New York City in September 1964; that production ran for a record-breaking 3,242 performances and won nine Tony Awards. The…
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