Mary Rodgers

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on3 works

Once Upon A Mattress
Working
Once Upon a Mattress (2024 Revival)

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In the literature8 passages

• 40 Mary Rodgers (b. 1931), American composer and author. She is the daughter of Richard Rodgers. A graduate of Wellesley College, where she majored in music, Rodgers had a Broadway hit in 1959 with Once Upon a Mattress. She worked as assistant to the producer of Bernstein's Young People's Concerts. In 1972 she published her first children…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Rodgers, Richard. Musical Stages: An Autobiography . New York: Random House, 1975; repr. with an introduction by Mary Rodgers. New York: Da Capo, 1995, 2000.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• I owe a great deal to Mary Rodgers Guettel and Hank Guettel. As they made their brief but important appearances in this story, who knew how important they would become to me? Were it not for the friendship between the Guettels and the Chapins, I have no idea what my professional life would be today. It was Mary who phoned me one day in 19…ebooks/Chapin, Ted/Everything Was Possible_ The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) - Ted Chapin.txt
• Warner Bros. Publications U.S. Inc.: Excerpt from the song lyric “The Boy From . . .” from The Mad Show , lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, music by Mary Rodgers. Copyright © 1966 (Renewed) and 1977 by Burthen Music Company, Inc. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Warner Bros. Publications U.S. Inc.ebooks/Chapin, Ted/Everything Was Possible_ The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) - Ted Chapin.txt
• Mary Rodgers, who, with Martin Charnin wrote Hot Spot (1963) a musical about the Peace Corps, when interviewed, told how she met her lyricist-collaborator:ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
• 143 Mary Rodgers, an eminent composer herself, says her father told her, he never wrote more than was called for in the libretto, except when they were on the road, making changes.ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt

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• Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
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