Before we can even mentally ask the question, Chita Rivera answers it in song, launching her cabaret act at the Colony Hotel’s Royal Room with the Kern-Hammerstein standard, I Won’t Dance. Oh, it’s not that the 79-year-old musical theater legend who hoofed her way through such Broadway original casts as West Side Story, Chicago and Kiss of the Spider Woman cannot dance … [Read more...]
A very Tony day with Chita and Faith
For fans of Tony Award-winning musical theater stars, Palm Beach County was a great place to be Tuesday. At 2 p.m., at the Kravis Center, I caught the tireless Chita Rivera and her one-woman concert, My Broadway. That evening, still on a high from her performance, I headed to the Colony Hotel’s Royal Room and saw Faith Prince’s tour de force cabaret act, which she is recording … [Read more...]