![]() ![]() Following the show's initial run of 244 performances, there were a US tour (in 1960), a production in London's West End (also 1960), three televised productions (in 1964, 1972, and 2005), and a Broadway revival (1996). Her first full-length musical Once Upon a Mattress, which was also her first collaboration with lyricist Marshall Barer (with whom she continued to write songs for nearly a decade), opened Off Broadway in May 1959 and moved to Broadway later in the year. She also composed music for television, including the jingle for the Prince Spaghetti commercial. ![]() One of these recordings, " Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves", which was released in 1957, featured performances by Bing Crosby of songs Mary Rodgers wrote with lyricist Sammy Cahn. ![]() ![]() She began writing music at the age of 16 and her professional career began with writing songs for Little Golden Records, which were albums for children with three-minute songs. She attended the Brearley School in Manhattan, and majored in music at Wellesley College. She was a daughter of composer Richard Rodgers and his wife, Dorothy Belle (née Feiner). Her best-known musicals were Once Upon a Mattress and The Mad Show, and she contributed songs to Marlo Thomas' successful children's album Free to Be. She wrote the novel Freaky Friday, which served as the basis of a 1976 film starring Jodie Foster, for which she wrote the screenplay, as well as three other versions. Mary Rodgers (Janu– June 26, 2014) was an American composer, screenwriter, and author. ![]()
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