At 90, Broadway legend Chita Rivera recalls a life working with Fosse, Sondheim, Bernstein

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At 90, Broadway legend Chita Rivera recalls a life working with Fosse, Sondheim, Bernstein
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Why, you might wonder, did Rivera wait until she was 90 this year to publish a memoir of this incredible life she’s led?

We had our first taste of how different and how stupendous this show was going to be when we had the first run-throughs of the show in front of people who are in the business. That brought us up to, ‘Oh my God, this is really something.’

Q; You write that you’ve always considered yourself a dancer at heart, regardless of your singing and acting in musicals and dramas.I think you’re grateful for the first thing that you learn. And that first was being a dancer. Not saying a word, just telling the story with your body. Then, if you’re fortunate enough, which I was, you open your mouth. You get a show and you open your mouth and you find out you can sing or you can speak.

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