Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life
Opening Night: December 11, 2005
Closing: February 19, 2006
Theater: 37 Arts Theatre
Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life takes a look at the creation of some of the greatest musicals in theater history, all of which featured Rivera, including West Side Story, Chicago, and Kiss of the Spider Woman. Rivera is the winner of two Tony Awards (for Kiss and The Rink), as well as six additional nominations. In 2002, she received the coveted Kennedy Center Honor. The production features direction and choreography by Graciela Daniele, a book by four-time Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, and new songs by Tony winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
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December 12, 2005
When Chita Rivera invites you to come on, babe, and help her paint the town, no one with a pulse is going to feel like refusing. Ms. Rivera was the first Velma Kelly, the homicidal hedonist from the Kander-Ebb musical "Chicago" in its first Broadway incarnation in 1975. And when she delivers that show’s exultantly jaded theme song, "All That Jazz," at the end of her autobiographical show, "Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life," Ms. Rivera makes it quite clear, thank you, that she still owns the part.
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