Sheldon Harnick

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Sheldon Harnick (born April 30, 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on hit musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof.

Harnick began his career writing words and music to comic songs in musical revues. One of these, "The Merry Minuet", was popularized by the Kingston Trio. It is in the caustic style usually associated with Tom Lehrer and is sometimes incorrectly attributed to him.

Credits

• New Faces (1952) (music by himself)
• Shangri-La (1956) (music by himself)
• The Body Beautiful (1958) (Bock)
• ''Portofino (1958) (lyrics with Richard Ney)
• Fiorello! (1959) (Bock)
• Music to Ford-i-fy your future (1959) (Bock), an industrial musical for the Ford Motor Company
• Tenderloin (1960) (Bock)
• Smiling the Boy Fell Dead (1961) (David Baker)
• She Loves Me (1963) (Bock)
• Fiddler on the Roof (1964) (Bock)
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) (Michel Legrand)
• The Apple Tree (1966) (Bock)
• The Rothschilds (1970) (Bock)
• Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines (1975) (Jack Beeson)
• Rex (1976) (Richard Rodgers)
• A Christmas Carol (1982) (Michel Legrand)
• A Wonderful Life (Joe Raposo)
• Cyrano: The Musical (1993) (contributed English lyrics)
• Coyote Tales (1998) (Henry Mollicone)
• Dragons (2003) (music by himself)
• Fiddler on the Roof (2004) (contributed lyrics for one new song, "Topsy Turvy") (Jerry Bock)

(In each case the composer of the music is given in parentheses.)

Honors

• Sheldon Harnick was honored at the Twenty-Sixth Annual William Inge Theater Festival located in Independence, Kansas in 2007.

External links

• Sheldon Harnick at the Internet Movie Database
• Northwestern University Magazine article based on 2004 interview with alumnus Harnick
• Sheldon Harnick Downstage Center interview at the American Theatre Wing, November 2006
• Playwright, Director, and Choreographer Working in the Theatre seminar video at American Theatre Wing, September 1990
• Career Guide: The Lyricist at AmericanTheatreWing.org
• TonyAwards.com Interview with Sheldon Harnick
• William Inge Theater Festival website

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