Chita Rivera

On stage 23 productions, 60 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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In the literature8 passages

• First performance: 19 August 1957, Washington, D.C., National Theatre, cast incl. Carol Lawrence (Maria), Chita Rivera (Anita), Larry Kert (Tony), Ken Le Roy (Bernardo), Mickey Calin (Riff), Art Smith (Doc); Jerome Robbins (concept and dir.), Max Goberman (cond.)ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Studio cast (mainly): Ben Bagley’s Kurt Weill Revisited . Paula Lawrence (original cast), Arthur Siegel, Chita Rivera, Jo Sullivan. Painted Smiles PS 1375; reissued 1989 on Painted Smiles PSCD 108. Contents: “One Touch of Venus,” “How Much I Love You,” “Dr. Crippen,” “Very, Very, Very,” “Vive la différence” (cut), and “Love in a Mist” (cu…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Original cast (1957) : Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence, Chita Rivera, Max Goberman (conductor). Columbia OL 5230; reissued on Columbia S 32603. Missing: “Taunting.”ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Act One: “C’est la vie” (Robert Clary, Kurt Kasznar, Beatrice Arthur, Company); “Where Is That Someone for Me?” (Gloria DeHaven); “Camille, Collette, Fifi” (Chita Rivera, Patricia Hammerlee, Gerrianne Raphael); “Man with a Dream” (Ricardo Montalban, Company); “Remarkable Fellow” (Ricardo Montalban, Chita Rivera, Scott Merrill, Company); “…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act Two: “A Miss You Kiss” (Ricardo Montalban, Company); “Camille, Collette, Fifi” (Chita Rivera, Patricia Hammerlee, Gerrianne Raphael); “Chico’s Reverie” (“White and Gold Ballet”) (Company); “Love, Love, Love” (Gerrianne Raphael, Patricia Hammerlee, Chita Rivera, Jimmy White); “If It’s a Dream” (reprise) (Gloria DeHaven); “Love Sneaks U…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• But Frank Quinn in the Daily Mirror found the new musical “earthy, saucy, tuneful and flamboyant.” He noted that newcomer Chita Rivera was a “thrilling” dancer with a “flashy” and “bold” personality, and that she slinked “like a panther” and did a “howl of a routine” with a calypso-styled can-can. William Hawkins in the New York World-Tel…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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