Dates
January 23rd, 1934
What is Chiva Rivera's first birthday?
Her first named role in a musical (bonus points for the name of the musical)
What is Fifi from Seventh Heaven?
The former name of the Chita Rivera Awards for Dance and Choreography
What is the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards?
Just a free 100 points. I found this clip online and thought it was humorous.
The name of a restaurant she owned from 1988-1994
What is Chita's?
She starred in 4 documentaries this year
According to IMDB she has over 147 credits in various filmed media
What is 2012?
Her first role as a performer on film
What is General Motors 50th Anniversary Show in 1957?
The number of Tony's she has been nominated for
What is 12?
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Lifetime Achievement in Theater
https://youtu.be/QR7wFoTNVOw?t=18
What show is this from? Technically two but I'll decide with a coin flip which answer I'm looking for
If you name both you get double points
What is the The Ed Sullivan Show or What is Bye Bye Birdie?
The Ed Sullivan Show is where this clip is from
The show the number is from is Bye Bye Birdie
What was the tour she joined after breaking her left leg in a car accident which left her leg broken in twelve places requiring eighteen screws and two braces to mend
What is Can-Can?
This event happened on December 1, 1957
What is the day she married fellow West Side Story dancer Tony Mordente?
Her role in Disney Channel's Johnny and the Sprites
What is Queen of All Magical Beings?
The number of nominations and wins in various awards (Hint the numbers are different)
11 nominations (3 Drama Desk and 8 Tony awards)
9 wins (2 Drama Desk awards, 3 Tony awards, 1 Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1 Drama League Award, 1 Theatre World Award and 1 Doctor of Fine Arts from UF )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgtH7KXTW4Q
This is the part that I could not stop laughing at for 10 minutes when I found this clip at 3 in the morning
What is HI I'M LELAND!?
She was the first ever Hispanic woman and Latina American woman to receive this award
What is the Kennedy Center Honor?
She received it the same year as James Earl Jones, James Levine, Paul Simon and Elizabeth Taylor
She suffered a broken leg and people thought she would never walk again
What is 1986?
The number of Tony Awards she has presented or hosted
What is 6?
The 39th, 40th, 58th, 59th, and 60th as participating artist and 53rd as presenter/host
Tied with Julie Harris for this award
What is the most individual Tony Award nominations?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DlCbVELkS8
The name of the show this is from
What is the Judy Garland Show
She is this religion
What is Roman Catholic?
This auditioned for this musical in 1951
What is Call Me Madam?
This is her first major role. She and her friend went to the audition with no serious intention of getting cast and lo and behold here we are now
The role I most enjoy her in
What is Velma Kelly?
This has nothing to do with awards but this is worthy of a 500 point question
The number of roles that Chita Rivera considers to be her highlights
What is 33?
https://youtu.be/ApULu9f4vaU?t=403
The name of the presenter
Who is Brain Stokes Mitchell?
Both Chita and Brian worked together on Kiss of the Spider Woman
Her performance was so important to this production that the show was postponed until she gave birth
What is the London production of West Side Story?