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From 1957 to 1966, Mordente was married to Chita Rivera. [9] Their daughter is actress Lisa Mordente, who received a best actress Tony nomination in 1982 for the musical Marlowe. Mordente and Rivera divorced but remained on good terms. [10] [9] [11] Mordente married Jean G. Fraser in 1978. They were parents to screenwriter Adriana Mordente. [12]
Rivera's performance was so important for the success of the show that the London production of West Side Story was postponed until she gave birth to the couple's daughter Lisa in 1958. Despite the divorce, Rivera and Mordente remained on good terms. [33] Rivera was a Roman Catholic. [34]
Chita Rivera, the dynamic dancer, singer and actor who garnered 10 Tony nominations, winning twice, in a long Broadway career that forged a path for Latina artists and shrugged off a near-fatal ...
Broadway legend Chita Rivera has died at age 91. “It is with immense personal sorrow that I announce the death of the beloved Broadway icon Chita Rivera,” her friend Merle Frimark shared in a ...
The three-time Tony Award winner, whose birth name was Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, was born in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 23, 1933. Rivera's father died when she was 7 years old and her ...
Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life was conceived by Chita Rivera in 2003, while she appeared in the musical Nine on Broadway.Since Rivera's next project, the Public Theater production of The Visit, had been canceled, Rivera approached that show's book writer, Terrence McNally, with the idea of a musical based upon her life.
Broadway legend Chita Rivera died on January 30 at age 91 and musical theater star Lin-Manuel Miranda paid tribute to her with an emotional Instagram.
After You, Who?" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for his 1932 musical Gay Divorce, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire. Astaire played the character Guy, and opened the musical with "After You, Who?" [1] Astaire reprised the song later in Act 1, before the introduction of "Night and Day". [1]