Tony-winning Broadway Chita Rivera useless at 91

Chita Rivera has died on the age of 91. 

The Tony-winning actress had an extended record of Broadway credit to her identify spanning over seven many years, and was a recipient of the distinguished Kennedy Center Honor.

There is at the moment no reason for dying right now, however her pal Merle Frimark confirmed the unhappy information of her passing in an announcement on Tuesday. 

‘It is with immense private sorrow that I announce the dying of the beloved Broadway icon Chita Rivera. My expensive pal of over 40 years was 91,’ Frimark mentioned. 

Born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero Anderson – the American star was professionally generally known as Chita Rivera, who originated roles in Broadway musicals together with Anita in West Side Story, Velma Kelly in Chicago, and the title position in Kiss of the Spider Woman. 

Chita Rivera useless at 91: Tony-winning Broadway icon well-known for roles in West Side Story and Guys and Dolls passes away (Pictured above in 2022) 

Thanks to her involvement in such iconic musicals, Rivera ended up with an unimaginable ten Tony Award nominees to her identify, successful three, together with one for Lifetime Achievement. 

In August 2009, she beame the primary Latina and the primary Latino American to obtain a Kennedy Center Honor and obtained a Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama. 

Rivera’s profession started by change in 1951, when she reportedly accompanied a pal to the audition for the touring firm of Call Me Madam starring Elaine Stritch, however ended up touchdown the position herself. 

Cleary written within the stars, Rivera then appeared to effortlessly glide by way of plenty of different Broadway productions – together with Guys and Dolls, Can-Can, Mr. Wonderful starring Sammy Davis, Jr., and Seventh Heaven. 

Chita Rivera is pictured simply final May on the BroadwayWorld.com twentieth Birthday Concert & Celebration at Sony Hall in New York City

Rivera is pictured alongside Shirley MacLaine and Liza Minnelli in 1984

But she reached true Broadways star standing when she was forged as Anita in West Side Story – the basic musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. 

Outside of theatre, Rivera apppeared on The Ed Sullivan Show a number of instances, and was a visitor on The Judy Garland Show. 

Rivera starred notably in Sweet Charity directed by Bob Fosse, taking part in the position of Nickie within the film model with Shirley MacLaine in 1969.