Bock & Harnick

The theme for this week’s Dress Circle (3/16 7:00 p.m.) came about as we were researching ideas for future programs. We noticed that almost all musicals feature songs where someone is leaving, telling someone else to leave, hinting someone else should leave, or is caught between leaving and staying. We came up with a list long enough to do several programs, so we thought we’d start this week with songs “Saying Goodbye or Not.”

Happy March, the month of aquamarines, daffodils, and robins – oh, and quite a few musicals opening in New York, some of which we’ll be featuring on this week’s Dress Circle (3/2 7:00 p.m.). We’ve chosen fourteen musicals for our playlist that spans 125 years of Broadway history this time.

This is the second and final program in a series that looks at the work of composer/lyricist Sheldon Harnick whom we lost on June 23rd of 2023.

Lyricist and composer Sheldon Harnick was a fixture on Broadway for several decades, and this program is the first in a series that celebrates his career as a lyricist and includes five of his biggest hits which he wrote with composer Jerry Bock.