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Mary Rodgers, Composer of Once Upon a Mattress and Daughter of Broadway Royalty, Dies at 83

Mary Rodgers, composer of Once Upon a Mattress, also wrote the book Freaky Friday (later made into a movie starring Jodie Foster and remade with Lindsay Lohan).

Mary Rodgers, who, as the daughter of a famous musical theatre composer (Richard Rodgers), a musical theatre successful composer herself (Once Upon a Mattress) and the mother of a musical theatre composer (Adam Guettel), held a singular place in the history of the American theatre, died June 26. She was 83.

via Mary Rodgers, Composer of Once Upon a Mattress and Daughter of Broadway Royalty, Dies at 83 – Playbill.com.

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