Chita Rivera: The Dance's Life Cancels Sunday Matinee Due to Snow

By: Feb. 12, 2006
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Telecharge.com has posted an alert that today's matinee performance of Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life has been cancelled today due to the snow. For information on exchanging tickets, visit www.telecharge.com.

The Dancer's Life, which is currently playing at the Schoenfeld Theatre, features a book penned by four-time Tony Award-winner Terrence McNally (who did the same for The Rink in 1984), and boasts direction and choreography by Graciele Daniele (Annie Get Your Gun, Ragtime, Once on This Island). The show is billed as a "tour through famous numbers in the American musical theatre," with Rivera dipping and gliding through dances she's performed in some of her greatest triumphs. To two new songs by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Dessa Rose), as well as musical theatre classics, Rivera (sometimes with the ensemble) performs numbers choreographed by Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Gower Champion, Michael Kidd and others, among them the "Shriner's Ballet" from Bye, Bye Birdie, "Dance at the Gym" and "America" from West Side Story, "All That Jazz" from Chicago and the title song from Kiss of the Spiderwoman.

Rivera has been a consistent and dynamic presence on Broadway for over half a century. She most recently starred in the New York-bound Kander and Ebb musical The Visit at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Rivera is a two-time Tony Award winner for The Rink and Kiss of the Spiderwoman, and also received nods for her performances in Nine (her most recent Broadway appearance), Jerry's Girls, Merlin, Bring Back Birdie, the original production of Chicago and Bye Bye, Birdie. Rivera originated the role of Anita in West Side Story, and has also been seen on Broadway in Can-Can, Mr. Wonderful, Shinbone Alley and Bajour, as well as in touring productions of Pippin and Sweet Charity. Rivera is a 2002 Kennedy Center Honoree.

 For more information, visit www.thedancerslife.com.
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