The 82-year-old half-Puerto Rican Broadway actress, dancer and singer and Tony Award winner, the first Hispanic woman and the first Latino American to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award, is starring in The Visit, one of the more daring musicals slated for Broadway’s spring season.
In the show, Rivera plays a billionairess who returns to the impoverished town she left in shame as a teenager, with a grotesque offer that her former neighbors prove unable to resist. Based on the 1956 play by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt, the musical with a book by Terrence McNally and co-starring Roger Rees, features one of the last scores created by the celebrated masters-of-darkness team of composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret) before Ebb’s death in 2004.
The Visit begins previews March 26 at the Lyceum Theatre and officially bows April 23.
Chita Rivera is this year’s Drama League darling… The 82-year-old half-Puerto Rican actress, dancer and singer, the first Hispanic woman and the first Latino American to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award, picked up the Distinguished Performance Award at the 2015 Drama League Awards for her role in The Visit.…
It’s a special Victory for Chita Rivera… The 84-year-old half-Puerto Rican actress, dancer and singer will be honored by the New York-based Victory Dance Project at its third anniversary celebration. Rivera, a Broadway legend, will be presented with the company’s Woman of Valor Award at the celebration at the Manhattan…
Chita Rivera is standing up and singing out… The 83-year-old half-Puerto Rican actress, dancer, singer and Broadway star will be spending inauguration day at a concert in New York City raising money for human-rights organizations. Rivera, the first Hispanic woman and the first Latino American to receive a Kennedy Center…
