Sheldon Harnick met his future wife, Margery Gray, in 1960, when she was auditioning for his new Broadway musical, "Tenderloin." Try as she might, Mrs. Harnick, now a photographer and artist, can't recall the song she sang on that fateful day. Mr. Harnick, the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning lyricist, is similarly in the dark, but he distinctly remembers being impressed by what he heard, and at least as impressed by what he saw. She got the part, although the show folded after barely six months. The couple's marriage, on the other hand, is a long-running production: 55 years and counting, all of it spent in a classic six with a full-on view of Central Park at the Beresford, an Emery Roth confection on the Upper West Side . It's where Mr. Harnick, now 96, wrote the lyrics to shows including "Fiorello!" (1959), "She Loves Me" (1963) and "Fiddler on the Roof" (1964). A documentary about that legendary show, "Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles," will air Nov. 13 as part of the PBS series "Great Performances." Sheldon Harnick, 96, and Margery Harnick, 86 Occupations: He's a lyricist; she's a performer turned artist and photographer. Home is where the art is : "I… Read full this story
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