Mary Rodgers, the Broadway composer and children’s book author, died of heart failure June 26 in her Manhattan home. She was 83. The daughter of musical-theater legend Richard Rodgers, Mary Rodgers was a composer in her own right. Her best-known musical was “Once Upon a Mattress,” the 1959 tuner that launched Carol Burnett into stardom. She... Read more »
SOURCE: Variety at 01:17PM on June 27, 2014