The Life of Mary Rogers
An Incredible, Plausible, Entirely Made-Up True Story from 1841

Book by Katherine Kavanagh with Tariq Hamami

Lyrics by Hodges, Hamami & Kavanagh

Music Composed & Arranged by Thomas Hodges

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 This timely, new musical tells the story of the infamous   Mary Rogers, a woman who worked in a cigar shop in   Lower Manhattan in the 19th century. A moving and   urgently relevant new work, the story explores Mary’s   desire for greater independence and the struggle to   make her own choices.

Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 2021