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“Chita Rivera is eternal. I remember seeing her for the first time in Mr. Wonderful and exclaiming, ‘Oh my god, who IS that’?” (Rita Moreno)
Chita Rivera was one of those phenomenally talented people who make what they do look easy; that’s how good she was. The actress, dancer, and singer who rocketed to fame with her dazzling performance as Anita in Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” on Broadway in 1957, seems to have been born with the energy and charisma that were so distinctive of her.… read more.