Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick

Sheldon Harnick: "Back in the Sixties," he recalls, "if you were producing a show you did backers auditions to raise the money." , according to BBC. Fiddler on the Roof was the fifth show written by lyricist Harnick and composer Jerry Bock. The others had been flops or had modest financial success. Sheldon Harnick is 90 and in a long career he s seen a lot change in New York theatre. "I remember one audition for Fiddler. As people left I heard someone say dismissively Oh once they run out of Hadassah benefits there ll be absolutely no audience for it . At the time I feared maybe they were right." Continue reading the main story Start Quote But to hear an audience laugh at a show you wrote all those years ago - that a thrill End Quote Sheldon Harnick In America Hadassah is the main Jewish women s organisation. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.