Mary Rodgers (1931–2014)
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Sobre l'autor
Mary Rodgers was born in Manhattan, New York on January 11, 1931. She attended Wellesley College, where she studied music, but she left before graduating to get married. While at Wellesley, she wrote numerous songs. A dozen were published in 1952 under the title Some of My Best Friends Are mostra'n més Children. In 1957, she met composer Leonard Bernstein, who hired her to help write and produce the television shows of Bernstein's New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts, a job she held for more than a decade. She wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress, Hot Spot, and the off Broadway revue, The Mad Show. She also wrote a musical for television entitled Feathertop. She wrote children's books including Freaky Friday, A Billion for Boris, The Rotten Book, and Summer Switch. Freaky Friday was adapted into a movie starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster in 1976 and a remake movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in 2003. She died of heart failure on June 26, 2014 at the age 83. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Sèrie
Obres de Mary Rodgers
They all Lived Happily Ever After 1 exemplars
Que sexta-feira mais pirada! 1 exemplars
Once Upon A Mattress (Playbill) [Vol 97 No 3] 1 exemplars
Feathertop - TV Soundtrack (1961) - LP 1 exemplars
The Boy From... (from THE MAD SHOW) 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Scribbling Women and the Real-Life Romance Heroes Who Love Them (2014) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Once Upon a Mattress [1964 TV movie] — Redactor/compositor — 1 exemplars
Once Upon a Mattress [1972 TV movie] — Redactor/compositor — 1 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Rodgers, Mary
- Data de naixement
- 1931-01-11
- Data de defunció
- 2014-06-26
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- New York, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- New York, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA
- Educació
- Brearley School, New York
Wellesley College - Professions
- composer
children's book author - Relacions
- Rodgers, Richard (father)
Guettel, Adam (son) - Biografia breu
- Rodgers' musical works include Once Upon a Mattress (1959), From A to Z (1960), Hot Spot (1963), The Mad Show (1966), Working (1978), and The Madwoman of Central Park West (1979).
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 23
- També de
- 8
- Membres
- 2,168
- Popularitat
- #11,849
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 34
- ISBN
- 109
- Llengües
- 5