Mary Rodgers | Composer and author, 83
Mary Rodgers, 83, the daughter of Broadway icon Richard Rodgers who found her own fame as composer of the 1959 musical Once Upon a Mattress and as the author of the body-shifting book Freaky Friday , died Thursday at her home in Manhattan after a long illness, her son Alec Guettel said.
Mary Rodgers, 83, the daughter of Broadway icon Richard Rodgers who found her own fame as composer of the 1959 musical Once Upon a Mattress and as the author of the body-shifting book Freaky Friday, died Thursday at her home in Manhattan after a long illness, her son Alec Guettel said.
Ms. Rodgers' hit Once Upon a Mattress, a musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson fable The Princess and the Pea, made a star of Carol Burnett. A Broadway revival in 1996 starred Sarah Jessica Parker.
Ms. Rodgers was also a children's book author who scored big with Freaky Friday, in which a mother and daughter trade bodies. The book was twice adapted into a Disney movie, most recently in 2003 starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. - AP