Remembering Harvey Schmidt by Barry Gordin

When The Fantasticks was on its way to becoming a solid Off Broadway hit, composers Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt were dangled a carrot of another kind: Broadway. N. Richard Nash wanted to do a musical adaptation of his romantic comedy The Rainmaker, about a lonely farm girl reaching spinsterhood and yearning for love - which had been a 1952 TV special, a 1954 Broadway play starring Geraldine Page and Darr…

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