{"product_id":"shy-mary-rodgers-9781399718516","title":"Shy","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Mary careens across these pages with her usual wit, wisdom and honesty' - Julie Andrews\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Having had the pleasure of meeting Mary Rodgers personally its so wonderful to read her story in her own words . . . I couldn't put it down' - Elaine Page\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'[A] thoughtful chronicle of one woman's journey through experience to understanding - and a lot of fun to read' - The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Pure pleasure . . . jaw-droppingly shocking' - Daniel Okrent, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Mary Rodgers's book has a humour and honesty that is very rare in entertainment memoirs'. - Sir Tim Rice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wonderfully funny, candid and outrageous NYT bestselling memoirs of Mary Rodgers - writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and 'a woman who tried everything.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMary 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mary Rodgers","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43812626006259,"sku":"9781399718516","price":65.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781399718516.jpg?v=1687384016","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/shy-mary-rodgers-9781399718516","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}