Songs, curios & esoterica.(Trends & Events)(musical theater collections)

New York City: What do Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret and Rhoda in Potatoland have in common? Not only are they legends in their respective theatrical niches, they are now some of the best documented shows of the last century. The papers of John Kander and Fred Ebb, the composer and lyricist behind Cabaret; Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, the men who wrote the score for Fiddler; and avant-garde titan Richard Foreman, whose extravaganza of potato heads was a seminal work of the 1970s, now reside in major collections of Manhattan libraries.

The New York Public Library for the ...

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