The Theatre Museum Pays Tribute to Broadway Lyricist Sheldon Harnick
By: Gabrielle Sierra May. 09, 2011
If I Were a Rich Man, Little Tin Box, Til Tomorrow, She Loves Me, Will He Like Me and Sunrise, Sunset are just a few of the tunes that will be brought to life next Monday -- May 16, 2011-- at New Yorks legendary National Arts Club as The Theatre Museum pays tribute to legendary Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick -- the Museums 2011 Career Achievement Award recipient.
I have known and loved Sheldon and his work since the late 50's and am thrilled, beyond words, at this opportunity to celebrate his magnificently witty and singularly moving lyrical gifts," says film, television and Broadway veteran Tony Walton, who is directing the evenings musical gala with an assist by musical director Mary-Mitchell Campbell.Harnick, whose career spans six decades and features numerous honors including three Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, is best known for his collaboration with composer Jerry Bock. Bocks passing last November weighed on Waltons mind as he began creating the Museums tribute.The recent memorial for Jerry Bock featured many highlights of the long and remarkable Bock/Harnick collaboration, continues Walton. Many in our audience - for the Museum's honoring of Sheldon - are likely to have been at that memorial, and so our challenge has been to find a way of presenting songs of Sheldon's that were either not featured at that memorial or will focus more on the extraordinarily variegated brilliance of Sheldon's lyrics - no matter with whom he is collaborating.Videos