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Mary Rodgers, Broadway Composer and 'Freaky Friday' Author, Dead at 83 by Gordon Cox

Mary Rodgers, the Broadway composer and children’s book author, died of heart failure June 26 in her Manhattan home. She was 83. The daughter of musical-theater legend Richard Rodgers, Mary Rodgers was a composer in her own right. Her best-known musical was “Once Upon a Mattress,” the 1959 tuner that launched Carol Burnett into stardom. She... Read more »

SOURCE: Variety at 1:17pm on June 27, 2014 ☆ ⚑

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