Sheldon Harnick, a Broadway lyricist whose creative partnership with composer Jerry Bock led to some of the most enduring scores in American musical theater history, notably “Fiddler on the Roof,” died June 23 at his home in Manhattan. He was 99.
Sheldon Mayer Harnick, the son of a dentist and a homemaker, was born in Chicago on April 30, 1924.
At Northwestern, Mr. Harnick wrote songs for campus revues and was especially piqued by lyric writing when his college friend Charlotte Rae, an aspiring actress, brought him the cast album to “Finian’s Rainbow,” a musical comedy with a topical edge about racism. Mr. Harnick’s first two marriages, to Mary Boatner and actress, writer and comedian Elaine May, ended in divorce, the second lasting only a year. In 1965, he married Margery Gray, an actress and photographer.
Mr. Harnick’s partnership with Bock barely survived the 1960s. They wrote three songs for the musical “Baker Street” , about the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, then opened “The Apple Tree” , which was adapted from Mark Twain’s writing.
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