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Jerry Bock, Composer of ?Fiddler on the Roof? Score, Dies at 81

Noted: When he was a senior at the University of Wisconsin, he and a classmate, Larry Holofcener, wrote another musical, ?Big as Life,? about Paul Bunyan. After graduation they both went to New York, where they were hired to write songs for ?The Admiral Broadway Revue,? which evolved into ?Your Show of Shows,? the popular vehicle for Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca.