Chita Rivera, 60, died after 20 Broadway appearances, according to her daughter Lisa Mordente. She played Anita, Rose, Velma Kelly, and Aurora in West Side Story, Bye Bye Birdie, Chicago, and Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Aged 91.
Riverside “was everything Broadway was meant to be,” recalls Laurence Maslon of Broadway: The American Musical. For decades, she was beautiful and talented on Broadway. She looks gorgeous.
Broadway baby? Non-Chita Rivera. The SAG Foundation “I’m enrolling you in dancing class to calm you down.” Mother was upset by tomboy. Thanks.
The New York School of American Dance awarded Rivera a full scholarship. Call Me Madam cast Rivera after Broadway tour trials with friend. Broadway supplants ballet. Sondheim and Bernstein helped her sing Anita 1957.
Rivera commented, “Hearing ‘America’ was just mind-boggling, with that rhythm,” at the musical’s 50th anniversary in 2007.Wanted. It was hard work. Latin rocked.
In West Side Story, Rivera sang, danced, and acted. “I remember sitting next to Lenny and his starting with ‘A Boy Like That,’ teaching it to me and me saying, ‘I’ll never do this, I can’t hit those notes, I don’t know how to hit those notes.'”
Maslon praised her Broadway singing, acting, and dancing. The triple threat began. Fosse and Robbins needed Broadway agile players.”
Her 1960–2013 wins and losses. Rivera’s 1986 taxi crash. After a left leg injury, doctors told her she would never dance again, changing her routine.
5 – “Realistically, we all have to be.” Do not split flights. stop backflipping. Curious? Refuse.
She was famous. Tony, Kennedy Centre, and Presidential Medal of Freedom. Maslon says Rivera preferred theatre to films and TV.
“That’s why they’re Broadway legends,” says he. “Hopefully you get to see them live because you’ll never get to see them in another form in quite the same way.”
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