Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 11, 2005
Closed Feb 19, 2006
Opened Dec 11, 2005
Closed Feb 19, 2006
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Running Time:
1hr. 55min.
(includes 1 intermission)
1hr. 55min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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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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Chita Rivera deserves standing ovations for the 55 years she's been dancing her heart out and her feet off on Broadway and elsewhere, for the long legs she's kicked over her head more times than a conductor can shake a baton at, for every roll of the fingers on both of her expressive hands. She deserves them for her Latina fire and ice, for the show-biz gypsy in her soul, for her very smoky, slightly nasal, entirely committed singing. She deserves them for her mambo in West Side Story, her breezy terping in Bye Bye Birdie, her jazz calisthenics in Chicago, her dark mystery in Kiss of the Spider Woman, and the oomph that she pumped into another dozen or more musicals that did or didn't make t[...]