VERSATILE ENTERTAINER ELECTRIFIED STAGE, SCREEN FOR NEARLY 70 YEARS

Performer cast as Anita in original production of ‘West Side Story’

BY ROBERT D. MCFADDEN
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Chita Rivera, the fire-and-ice dancer, singer and actress who leapt to stardom in the original Broadway production of “West Side Story” and dazzled audiences for nearly seven decades as a Puerto Rican lodestar of the American musical theater, died on...

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