Harvey Schmidt

In partnership with lyricist Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt has written a half-dozen stage works that are respected and which have even achieved success. But it is their most enduring theatrical work together, The Fantasticks, for which Schmidt and Jones will be known as long as there are singers and audiences capable of embracing songs like "Try to Remember," "Much More," "Soon It's Gonna Rain," and "They Were You." For 40 years and counting, performers ranging from Barbra Streisand and Ed Ames to Jerry Orbach and ensembles including the Kingston Trio and the Serendipity Singers h...