Founding Encores! Music Director Rob Fisher on Fiorello!, 1960 Pulitzer Prize Winner

All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Rob Fisher and Sheldon Harnick on Sheldon's 99th birthday in 2023. Photo Courtesy of Rob Fisher

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "Fiorello!"
1960 Pulitzer winner “Fiorello!”, by Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick

Fiorello! Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiorello!

Jerry Bock Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Bock

Sheldon Harnick Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Harnick

Fiorello La Guardia Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiorello_La_Guardia

Rob Fisher
https://amp-worldwide.com/artist/rob-fisher/

“Remembering Broadway legend and 'Fiddler on the Roof' lyricist Sheldon Harnick” Terry Gross interview on NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185294793/remembering-broadway-legend-and-fiddler-on-the-roof-lyricist-sheldon-harnick

“To Broadway, To Life!: The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick” by Phillip Lambert
https://www.amazon.com/Broadway-Life-Musical-Theater-Legacies/dp/0199328064/

Music Theatre International: Fiorello!
https://www.mtishows.com/fiorello

Original Review: “Theatre: Little Flower Blooms Again; 'Fiorello!' Begins Run at the Broadhurst” by Brooks Atkinson
https://www.nytimes.com/1959/11/24/archives/theatre-little-flower-blooms-again-fiorello-begins-run-at-the.html

Encores 1994 Review: “Fiorello” by Jeremy Gerard, Variety
https://variety.com/1994/legit/reviews/fiorello-1200435922/

Encores 1994 Review: “Fiorello” by Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News
https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/theater-review-fiorello-city-center-article-1.1252208

Papermill Playhouse Review
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/18/archives/new-jersey-weekly-fiorello-shines-at-paper-mill-high-spirits.html

Berkshire Theatre Group review
https://thetakemagazine.com/review-fiorello-berkshire-theatre-group/

Goodspeed Opera House reviews
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/30/theater/stage-fiorello-at-goodspeed-opera.html

Encores 1994 Review: “Fiorello” by Jeremy Gerard
https://variety.com/1994/legit/reviews/fiorello-1200435922/

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Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the blog Broadway& Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts Stagecraft and All The Drama. She has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.