Sheldon Harnick, the Tony-winning lyricist of musical theater, died Friday at 99 of natural causes.
While many of us assumed he just might live forever,morning at age 99 of natural causes, reported his publicist Sean Katz, at his longtime apartment on New York’s Upper West Side.
Actually, he probably knew it even before college. His mother “celebrated every occasion with a poem,” he once told me. And pretty soon, he too was writing poems, then song lyrics, sketches and parodies in high school and college. Later, in the army, he would write songs and sketches to entertain the troops.
Harnick was also very organized, lucky for me. He kept all the lyrics for “Fiddler on the Roof” in a thick pale-blue three-ring binder, and after going off to another room to get it during our interview, he started calling out titles for songs going back to 1961, and laughing aloud at some of them.
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