Mary Rodgers (1931–2014)
Auteur van Freaky Friday
Over de Auteur
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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Fotografie: newmusicbox.org
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Werken van Mary Rodgers
The Mad show : a musical revue based on Mad magazine 2 exemplaren
They all Lived Happily Ever After 1 exemplaar
Que sexta-feira mais pirada! 1 exemplaar
Once Upon A Mattress (Playbill) [Vol 97 No 3] 1 exemplaar
Feathertop - TV Soundtrack (1961) - LP 1 exemplaar
The Boy From... (from THE MAD SHOW) 1 exemplaar
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Once Upon a Mattress [1964 TV movie] — Samensteller — 1 exemplaar
Once Upon a Mattress [1972 TV movie] — Samensteller — 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Rodgers, Mary
- Geboortedatum
- 1931-01-11
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2014-06-26
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- New York, New York, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- New York, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- Brearley School, New York
Wellesley College - Beroepen
- composer
children's book author - Relaties
- Rodgers, Richard (father)
Guettel, Adam (son) - Korte biografie
- 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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- 23
- Ook door
- 8
- Leden
- 2,168
- Populariteit
- #11,849
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 34
- ISBNs
- 109
- Talen
- 5
This book certainly lived up to the title of “alarmingly outspoken” but in many instances TMI about too many dysfunctional relationships. (Although I wonder if it would have felt less bitchy for me had many of those stories been original, old diary entries instead of newly retold stories for publication?)
As for a general reading experience, I found the footnotes, while providing some interesting information, disruptive to my reading.