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To Broadway, To Life! - The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick (Hardcover)
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To Broadway, To Life! - The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick (Hardcover)
Series: Broadway Legacies
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In fourteen years of collaboration, composer Jerry Bock and
lyricist Sheldon Harnick wrote seven of Broadway's most beloved and
memorable musicals together, most famously Fiddler on the Roof
(1964), but also the enduring audience favorite She Loves Me
(1963), and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Fiorello (1959). With their
charm, humor, and boundless musical invention, their musicals have
won eighteen Tony Awards and continue to capture the imaginations
of millions around the world.
To Broadway, To Life : The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick is
the first complete book about these creative figures, one of
Broadway's most important songwriting teams. Drawing from extensive
archival sources, and from personal interviews and communications
with Bock and Harnick themselves and their most important
collaborators, author Philip Lambert explores the essence of a
Bock-Harnick show-how it is put together, and what makes it work.
The book includes discussion of songs such as "Sunrise, Sunset" and
"If I Were a Rich Man" that have long been favorites in the public
consciousness, and it also explores a vast catalogue of
lesser-known songs from their many other shows and works, including
a musical puppet show on Broadway, music for the 1964 World's Fair,
and a made-for-television musical. Here too is the first look at
the little-known youthful professional beginnings of Bock and
Harnick in revues and television shows and summer retreats in the
1950s, and the careers they have forged for themselves with new
collaborators in the decades since their partnership dissolved in
1970.
The musicals of Bock and Harnick came at a transitional time in
Broadway history, when the traditions of Rodgers and Hammerstein
were starting to give way to the concept musical, the rock musical,
and eventually the mega-musical. To Broadway, To Life combines
exhaustive research, close musical investigation, and interpretive
critical analysis to place Bock and Harnick in the context of these
times, and helps establish their place in the history of the
American musical theater.
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