Chita Rivera catapulted to fame playing Anita in the 1957 musical “West Side Story” on Broadway.
“Those sorts of things can be a perk of acting,” she writes.Rivera sometimes did get carried away, although never with Van Dyke . Anita,’” Chita Rivera tells people if they make the mistake of saying they loved her in the movie version of “West Side Story.”Fortunately, the wildly entertaining “Chita” — which she wrote with Patrick Pacheco — does not scrimp on the love affairs , the struggles or the celebrity anecdotes .
Her beloved father, a Puerto Rican jazz musician who played saxophone and clarinet, died when Rivera was just 7. A few months later, she was living with relatives in the Bronx, taking classes at Balanchine’s famed school.When an instructor pushed her under a piano, she stood up, dusted herself off, and laughed in his face; he never didChita Rivera poses for photos with actress Karen Olivo, who played Anita in the 2009 Broadway show.Rivera appeared alongside Liza Minnelli in “The Rink,” at the height of Minnelli’s drug problems.
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