Broadway legend Chita Rivera visits UMKC campus

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Uploaded by on Feb 11, 2009

Tony Award-winning Broadway singer, dancer and actress Chita Rivera spoke to University of Missouri-Kansas City students and faculty at the Performing Arts Center in September of 2008. As part of a fundraiser for the Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Rivera also performed pieces from her signature Broadway shows that evening at Spencer Theatre.

In 1950, Rivera started out as a dancer in the Broadway debut of Guys and Dolls. She has toured internationally in Can-Can with the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, and she played the starring role of Anita in the 1957 Broadway premiere of West Side Story. In 1960, she starred in Bye Bye Birdie as Rose Alvarez, the girlfriend and secretary of Albert Peterson, played by Dick Van Dyke.

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