Cinderella Stars Get a Royal Visit from Composer Mary Rodgers
By the time Richard Rodgers composed the musical Cinderella for television in 1957, his daughter Mary had already launched her own career as a songwriter—and two years later, she debuted her fairy tale-inspired tuner Once Upon a Mattress on Broadway. On June 5, Mary Rodgers Guettel headed to the Broadway Theatre to see the gorgeously reimagined version of her father’s magical musical, then went backs…