Book NewsChita Rivera Memoir Released in Spanish August 29
The three-time Tony Award honoree penned the book in collaboration with journalist Patrick Pacheco.
By
Andrew Gans, Logan Culwell-Block
August 29, 2023
Three-time Tony honoree Chita Rivera's CHITA: A Memoir,
written with journalist Patrick Pacheco and released this past spring, arrives in Spanish August 29 via Harper Espanol under the title CHITA Memorias. An audio version in Spanish is also now available (only the English audio version features Rivera).
The tome covers the West Side Story and Chicago
star's early life and long Broadway career. The project is not Rivera
and Pacheco's first collaboration; Pacheco was credited with
"biographical research" on Rivera's 2005 autobiographical solo show, Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life.
With a more than 60–year career on Broadway, Rivera is perhaps best known for creating the roles of Anita in West Side Story, Rose in Bye Bye Birdie, Velma in Chicago, and Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman, winning Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical Tony Awards for Spider Woman and The Rink. She was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 2018, recognizing a career that also includes performances in Nine, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and, most recently, The Visit.
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