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Shy - The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers (Hardcover)
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Shy - The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers (Hardcover)
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'Mary careens across these pages with her usual wit, wisdom and
honesty' - Julie Andrews '[A] thoughtful chronicle of one woman's
journey through experience to understanding - and a lot of fun to
read' - The Washington Post 'Pure pleasure . . . jaw-droppingly
shocking' - Daniel Okrent, The New York Times The wonderfully
funny, candid and outrageous NYT bestselling memoirs of Mary
Rodgers - writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and 'a woman who
tried everything.' Mary Rodgers was the daughter of Richard
Rodgers, who, with Oscar Hammerstein, wrote some of the biggest
musicals of the 20th century-from Oklahoma! and Carousel to South
Pacific and The King and I. Shy is the story of how Mary went from
angry child, constrained by a self-absorbed mother and her father's
overwhelming gift, to finally living life on her own terms-falling
in love, often unwisely, marrying twice, having six children, and
forging a career of her own. Through her long and rich life Mary
grabbed every chance possible-and then some. Her musical Once Upon
A Mattress remains one of the rare revivable Broadway hits written
by a woman. She was the renowned author of the much-loved Freaky
Friday books, as well as a close friend and collaborator of Stephen
Sondheim, falling in love with him at 13 over a game of chess. She
also dated producer Hal Prince and worked alongside composer and
conductor Leonard Bernstein. With copious annotations,
contradictions, and interruptions from Mary's collaborator Jesse
Green, the chief theatre critic of The New York Times, the result
is laugh-out-loud funny and frequently moving. Above all, Shy is a
chance to sit at the feet of the kind of woman they don't make any
more. They make themselves.
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