Word: harnick
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...DARLING OF THE DAY, by Jule Styne and E.Y. Harburg, and IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, by Joe Raposo and Sheldon Harnick, in concert revivals...
Still here are the matchless Jerry Bock--Sheldon Harnick songs (has any opening number done a better job of introducing a show's themes, setting and characters than Tradition?); most of Jerome Robbins' original choreography; and Joseph Stein's solid book (based on Sholom Aleichem stories) about a Jewish milkman and his marriageable daughters in the Russian village of Anatevka, in the days before they are uprooted and forced to migrate to America. But Leveaux has ditched the old-fashioned scene changes and set the show on an open stage, with bare trees silhouetted against a translucent blue and orange...
...early 20th-century Anatevka, a small town in the Russian Pale—the region where many Jews were confined under Russian czarist rule—Fiddler tells the story of Tevye the milkman and his five daughters. With music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and a book by Joseph Stein, the 1960s musical is based on a story by writer Sholom Aleichem...