Shy Av Mary Rodgers, Jesse Green

<p><b>The memoirs of Mary Rodgers¿writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and ¿a woman who tried everything.¿<br><br></b>¿What am I, bologna?¿ Mary Rodgers (1931¿2014) often said. She was referring to being stuck in the middle of a talent sandwich: the daughter of one composer and the mother of another. And not just any composers. Her father was Richard Rodgers, perhaps the greatest American melodist; her son, Adam Guettel, a worthy successor. What that leaves out is Mary herself, also a composer, whose musical <i>Once Upon a Mattress</i> remains one of the rare revivable Broadway hits written by a woman. <br><br><i>Shy </i>is the story of how it all happened: how Mary grew from an angry child, constrained by privilege and a parent¿s overwhelming gift, to become not just a theater figure in her own right but also a renowned author of books for young readers (including the classic <i>Freaky Friday</i>) and, in a final grand turn, a doyenne of philanthropy and the chairman of the Juilliard S