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This web site is dedicated to the legendary Chita Rivera, goddess of Broadway!

Special Podcasts: Love and Love Alone: A Conversation with Chita Rivera and her long-time friend Richard Seff, recorded by Joel Markowitz. As wistful and winning as the best Kander and Ebb songs themselves, this two part look at Chita Rivera and The Visit is all about the love she and Richard Seff hold for the theatre world, for each other and especially for Mssrs. Kander and Ebb.

chita cabaret
Photo: Joan Marcus

Chita was on hand for the ribbon cutting of the Maravel Arts Center, the latest project of Rosie's Broadway Kids, a not-for-profit organization founded by Rosie O'Donnell in 2003 to provide musical theater training to New York City public school children, free of charge. For video of the January 26, 2009 event see Maravel Arts Center.

Chita and Lola

Chita and her sister Lola arrive in London, August 5, 1964. The caption to the UPI photo explains, "The sisters who flew in from a week-end in Paris, are staying with British musical comedy actress Anne Rogers, with whom recently, Chita co-starred in a Broadway production of "Zenda," the musical version of "The Prisoner of Zenda," with Alfred Drake. See "Productions" for other great photos of Chita.


Chita and The Dancer's Life company
"Dancing on the Kitchen Table."

Photo by Craig Schwartz


Chita and the men of The Dancer's Life company perform "Where You Are" from Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Photo by Craig Schwartz


The billboard for Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life in Times Square
Photo: Armando Modesto Del Rivero



 



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