{"title":"Jerry Bock","role":"Music","image":null,"lede":null,"content":"\r\n
JERRY BOCK (Music)<\/strong> was born in New Haven on November 23, 1928. Thirty years later he and Sheldon Harnick gave birth to The Body Beautiful<\/em> in Philadelphia. In between was Catch a Star <\/em>and Mr. Wonderful<\/em> (starring Sammy Davis Jr.). Bock and Harnick's celebrated collaboration yielded five scores in seven years: The Body Beautiful, Fiorello <\/em>(winner of the Broadway triple crown: Tony Award, NY Critics Circle Award, Pulitzer Prize for Drama), Tenderloin, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof<\/em> (nine Tonys, including Best Musical), The Apple Tree<\/em> and The Rothschilds.<\/em> In addition to the silver anniversary production of ...Fiddler<\/em> (from which a major excerpt was featured in Jerome Robbins' Broadway<\/em>), a highly esteemed revival of The Rothschilds<\/em> enjoyed a successful run off-Broadway. Bock and Harnick have been inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame, received the Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and were awarded the Spirit of American Creativity Award. But it was the award of an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the U. of Wisconsin that Bock held near and dear, for it was there that he met his wife, and it was there that he decided to be a composer.<\/p>\r\n","website":"","alt":""}