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Broadway Birthday: Sheldon Harnick

Happy Birthday to Pulitzer-winning writer Sheldon Harnick, born April 30, 1924, in Chicago. He began composing while at Carl Schurz H.S. and graduated from Northwestern (1949) with a bachelor’s in music. After working with various Chicago orchestras, he moved to … Continue reading

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Essential Musicals: Fiddler on the Roof

Novelist Philip Roth called it “shtetl kitsch,” and writer Cynthia Ozick said it was an “emptied-out, prettified romantic vulgarization” of Sholem Aleichem’s work. Even if it wasn’t entirely true to its source material, Fiddler on the Roof did tackle the … Continue reading

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