Mary Rodgers, the daughter of Broadway legend Richard Rodgers, who found her own fame as a composer and author, has died. She was 83.
Rodgers’s son, Alec Guettel, says she died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan, New York City, after a long illness.
Her 1959 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.
Her other shows include: From A to Z, a revue featuring her songs; Hot Spot; and The Madwoman of Central Park West, a one-person musical starring Phyllis Newman.
She was also the author of the book Freaky Friday.