Sheldon Harnick then moved to New York City and wrote for many musicals and revues.
10 Facts About Sheldon Harnick
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Sheldon Harnick was friends with Charlotte Rae from college, and he went to see her one night at the Village Vanguard where she was singing a revue.
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Yip Harburg, who was one of Sheldon Harnick's idols, heard she was singing a song of his and decided to come.
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Sheldon Harnick told Harnick that he enjoyed his writing, and urged him to continue.
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Sheldon Harnick counseled him to write character and comic songs, not ballads, for Broadway.
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Sheldon Harnick wrote the libretto for the opera Coyote Tales, with music by Henry Mollicone, which received its world premiere at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City in March 1998.
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Sheldon Harnick wrote the book, music and lyrics to the musical Dragons, which was performed in 2003 at the Luna Stage in Montclair, New Jersey.
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Sheldon Harnick wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the book with Norton Juster for the musical The Phantom Tollbooth, based on the book by Juster.
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Harnick released the album Sheldon Harnick: Hidden Treasures in 2014, which includes recordings of song demos and pieces cut from Broadway shows from his private collection.
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In 2020, Sheldon Harnick worked on a musical adaptation of the Soviet play The Dragon by Evgeny Schwartz.