"Chita Rivera" performs America and All That Jazz from 1982 on YouTube
Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero (January 23, 1933 – January 30, 2024), known professionally as Chita Rivera, was an American actress, singer, and dancer. Rivera received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, and a Drama League Award. She was the first Latina and the first Latino American[1] to receive a Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.[2] She won the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2018.
After making her Broadway debut as a dancer in Guys and Dolls (1950), she went on to originate roles in Broadway musicals such as Anita in West Side Story (1957), Velma Kelly in Chicago (1975), and the title role in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993). She was a ten-time Tony Award nominee, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical twice for her roles in The Rink (1984) and Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993).[3] She was Tony-nominated for her roles in Bye Bye Birdie (1961), Chicago (1975), Bring Back Birdie (1981), Merlin (1983), Jerry's Girls (1986), Nine (2003), Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life (2005), and The Visit (2015).
Rivera acted in the film Sweet Charity (1969) and appeared in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), and Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021). She played Connie Richardson in the CBS sitcom The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1973–1974). She also appeared on television in The Judy Garland Show (1963), The Carol Burnett Show (1971), and Will & Grace (2005). Her autobiography, Chita: A Memoir, was published in 2023.[4]
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^Morris, Bob (April 17, 2023). "Chita Rivera on Love, Showbiz and All That Jazz". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
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The ChitaRivera Awards for Dance and Choreography (previously titled the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards) celebrate outstanding dance and choreography in...
Bye Birdie "the peak of the season" and especially liked ChitaRivera as Rosie: "ChitaRivera ... is triumphant as dancer, comic, and warbler." In the...
Elaine Stritch Follies – Dorothy Collins and Alexis Smith Chicago – ChitaRivera and Gwen Verdon Annie – Dorothy Loudon and Andrea McArdle Dreamgirls...
version of West Side Story, during which time he met his future wife ChitaRivera, who played Anita in the original Broadway cast. In the stage version...
for a ChitaRivera Awards for Dance and Choreography in 2017, for outstanding dancing in a Broadway show and eventually winning a ChitaRivera Award for...
(With Another Name)". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved May 23, 2023. "2022 ChitaRivera Award Nominations". Newyorktheater. May 17, 2022. Cristi, A.A. (June...
role of Tony, but the actor soon died. Sondheim found Larry Kert and ChitaRivera, who created the roles of Tony and Anita, respectively. Getting the work...
Archived from the original on May 18, 2019. Retrieved May 19, 2019. "ChitaRivera Awards, Cher and Film Choreography". thefilmexperience.net. Archived...
role was as Anton Schell in the musical version of The Visit, opposite ChitaRivera, which opened on Broadway on 23 April 2015 and closed on 14 June 2015...
the era. Women who have portrayed Velma on the Broadway stage include: ChitaRivera, Caroline O'Connor, Bebe Neuwirth, Jasmine Guy, Reva Rice, Pia Douwes...
50th Anniversary Gala of Fiddler on the Roof, with Sheldon Harnick, ChitaRivera and Chaim Topol. In summer of 2016, Harris sang at the Museum of Jewish...
January 15, 2022. Rosky, Nicole (May 20, 2018). "Who Won Big at the 2018 ChitaRivera Awards? - Full List of Winners!". BroadwayWorld. Archived from the original...
choreographer and television director Tony Mordente and actress/dancer ChitaRivera (her birth postponed her mother's opening in the West End production...
The team also became associated with two actresses, Liza Minnelli and ChitaRivera, for whom they wrote a considerable amount of material for the stage...
Retrieved February 10, 2024. Wagmeister, Elizabeth (January 30, 2024). "ChitaRivera, Tony Award Winning Actress and Singer, Dead at 91". CNN. Retrieved January...
and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and ChitaRivera. He worked during the early 1950s bronzing baby shoes, as a trucker's...
Robert (5 May 2015). "71st Annual Theatre World Award Announced Today – ChitaRivera Earns Lifetime Achievement Honor". Playbill. Retrieved 10 June 2015....
from April 14, 1960, to October 7, 1961. Van Dyke starred alongside ChitaRivera, Barbara Doherty, and Paul Lynde. The production received mixed reviews...
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"Chita Rivera" performs America and All That Jazz from 1982 on YouTube