The three-time Tony Award honoree is working on a book with journalist Patrick Pacheco.
Three-time Tony honoree Chita Rivera is writing a memoir, with journalist Patrick Pacheco as co-author. The upcoming book, which is reported by the New York Times to be scheduled for a 2023 release from publisher HarperOne, will cover the West Side Story and Chicago star’s early life and long Broadway career.
The project is not Rivera and Pacheco’s first collaboration; Pacheco was credited with “biographical research” on Rivera’s 2005 autobiographical solo show Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life.
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With a more than 60–year career on Broadway, Rivera is perhaps best known for creating the roles of Anita in West Side Story, Rose in Bye Bye Birdie, Velma in Chicago, and Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman, winning Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical Tony Awards for Spider Woman and The Rink. She was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 2018, recognizing a career that also includes performances in Nine, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and, most recently, The Visit. Rivera is closely associated with the writing team of John Kander and Fred Ebb, having starred in their musicals Chicago, The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and The Visit, but the memoir will also cover working with such theatrical luminaries as Stephen Sondheim, Bob Fosse, Dick Van Dyke, Arthur Laurents, Gwen Verdon, Leonard Bernstein, Liza Minnelli, and Hal Prince, among others.
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Dick Van Dyke and Chita Rivera in Bye Bye Birdie
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Chita Rivera and Dick Van Dyke in Bye Bye Birdie
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Chita Rivera and cast in Bajour
Chita Rivera in Bajour
Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera in Chicago.
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Chita Rivera and Gwen Verdon in Chicago
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Chita Rivera and Donald O’Connor in Bring Back Birdie
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Chita Rivera and cast in Bring Back Birdie
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Jason Alexander, Scott Holmes, Mel Johnson, Jr., Chita Rivera, Ronn Carrol, Scott Ellis and Frank Mastrocola
Chita Rivera in The Rink
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Chita Rivera, Leslie Uggams, and Dorothy Loudon in Jerry’s Girls
Chita Rivera and cast in Jerry’s Girls
Chita Rivera, Brent Carver and Anthony Crivello in Kiss of the Spider Woman
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Chita Rivera in Kiss of the Spider Woman
Antonio Banderas and Chita Rivera in Nine
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Chita River in Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life
Richard Montoya, Chita Rivera, and Edgard Gallardo in Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life
Eric Sciotto, Shannon Lewis, Kyle Coffman, Nicholas Barasch, Will Chase, and Chita Rivera in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Chita Rivera with the cast of The Visit.
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