Composer of the musical Once Upon a Mattress who went on to write the bestseller Freaky FridayMary Rodgers, who has died aged 83, was a composer and songwriter whose 1959 musical Once Upon a Mattress, based on a Hans Christian Andersen story, The Princess and the Pea, is played constantly throughout America. She was part of a line of musical theatre composers: Richard Rodgers, of Rodgers and Hammerstein, was her fath…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:53AM on June 29, 2014