Word: harnick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next best thing to a rock concert, the results were closer in style to a rip-roaring Broadway show, an impression strengthened by the use of Bizet's original opera-comique version, in which the dialogue is spoken rather than sung, and a refreshingly colloquial English translation by Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof). Updated it was, but dumbed down it wasn't. Assaf made her dramatic points with crisp simplicity and no pandering whatsoever. No less direct was the Carmen of mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzman, a fire-eating singing actress who played straight to the video cameras, giving...
AUTHORS: MUSIC BY JERRY BOCK; LYRICS BY SHELDON HARNICK; BOOK BY JOE MASTEROFF...
...without | any idea that they know -- and despise -- each other. In daily life they are dull and ordinary. Setting pen to paper, they are romantic dreamers. They stand for the poetic souls we all believe lie hidden within us. With the help of Joe Masteroff's witty book, Sheldon Harnick's playful lyrics and the winsome performances of Boyd Gaines and Judy Kuhn, they are also completely believable people doing fetchingly silly things...
...ever there was a play that could "touch" anyone, it is The Apple Tree. Director Scott Schwartz interprets Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock's version of the Biblical story of the first man and woman so that it becomes a sensuous and visually stimulating production...
...characters that Harnick and Bock have created condone social stereotypes of men and women: Eve is interested in her gardening, while Adam, with echoes of My Fair Lady's Henry Higgins, thinks Eve's emotions are "sentimental hogwash...