Tony- and Grammy Award-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick was known for his wry, subtle humor and deft wordplay. Many Broadway artists paid their respects on social media.
FILE - Sheldon Harnick on stage at the Dramatists Guild Foundation 2018 dgf: gala at the Manhattan Center Ballroom on Nov. 12, 2018, in New York City. -winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who with composer Jerry Bock made up the premier musical-theater songwriting duos of the 1950s and 1960s with shows such as "Fiddler on the Roof," "Fiorello!" and "The Apple Tree," has died. He was 99.
Bock and Harnick first hit success for the music and lyrics to "Fiorello!," which earned them each Tonys and a rare Pulitzer Prize in 1960. In addition, Harnick was nominated for Tonys in 1967 for "The Apple Tree," in 1971 for "The Rothschilds" and in 1994 for "Cyrano — The Musical." But their masterpiece was "Fiddler on the Roof."
They would form one of the most influential partnerships in Broadway history. Producers Robert E. Griffith and Hal Prince had liked the songs from "The Body Beautiful," and they contracted Bock and Harnick to write the score for their next production, "Fiorello!," a musical about the reformist mayor of New York City.Stephen Sondheim was one of Broadway's songwriting legends. His music and lyrics are widely known in musicals.
In a masterpiece of laughter and tenderness, Harnick's lyrics were poignant and honest, as when the hero Tevye sings, "Lord who made the lion and the lamb/You decreed I should be what I am/Would it spoil some vast eternal plan/If I were a wealthy man?" He also wrote lyrics for the song "William Wants a Doll" for Marlo Thomas’ TV special "Free to Be... You and Me" and several original opera librettos, including "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines" and "Love in Two Countries." He won a Grammy for writing the libretto for "The Merry Widow" featuring Beverly Sills.
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