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re: WOW...have you seen her in the show!!!!

Posted by:	BruceinIthaca 12:40 am EDT 08/11/14
In reply to:	WOW...have you seen her in the show!!!! - actor103 12:06 am EDT 08/09/14

I've only seen her in a handful of shows. I'd say she always delivers and that when she is onstage she is fully present and simply has a magical pull--even when not ideally cast, as in "Drood" (and I still would rather have seen her than any number of actresses better suited for the role--it was mainly the accent). But the first time I saw her onstage was a Sunday matinee of "Jerry's Girls" (the last performance before she had her accident back in the mid-80s): even though the revue wasn't the most innovative production in the world, and even when flanked by Dorothy Loudon's raucus comedy and heart-breaking torch-singing and Leslie Uggams' songbird voice, Rivera grabbed the stage and enchanted us all when she stepped on all in purple, IIRC, with "Wherever He Ain't." She didn't hog the stage--she never seemed to be trying to steal focus--she just was totally there and totally fabulous. I saw her "Spider Woman," "Nine," "The Dancer's Life," and "Drood," and would, contrary to Lloyd Richards, sign-up gladly to see her in "The Hairy Ape"! Someone called her a chorus girl who made good. She did better than "make good." And I've never heard a person say a bad word about her in real life. Keep going, Chita! I may drive to Williamstown this week.

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