- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (60 min.) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Performer Chita Rivera discusses her life and career with theater journalist Richard Ridge. She begins with her childhood introduction to dance, her training, and her early experiences touring in various musical shows. She also speaks of a number of colleagues such as Gwen Verdon, Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome Robbins, and reminisces about some of the many shows in which she has performed.
- Alternative Title
- Chita Rivera in conversation with Richie Ridge
- Subject
- Rivera, Chita > Interviews
- Rivera, Chita > Friends and associates
- Verdon, Gwen > Friends and associates
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 > Friends and associates
- Robbins, Jerome > Friends and associates
- Strouse, Charles
- Kander, John
- Sweet Charity (Motion picture)
- Chita Rivera: the dancer's life
- Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Note
- This interview can be accessed via physical media (DVD) in the screening room of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive: call number NCOW 422.
- Access (note)
- Restricted to qualified researchers.
- Performer (note)
- Introductory remarks: Lisa Rothe, Jacqueline Davis, and Ludovica Villar-Hauser.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., May 7, 2018.
- Source (note)
- Call Number
- NCOW 422
- OCLC
- 1312756727
- Title
Interview with Chita Rivera / conducted by Richie Ridge ; May 7, 2018 ; Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y. ; [presented by] The League of Professional Theatre Women ; [video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
- Production
New York: Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, [2018]
- Copyright Date
©2018
- Type of Content
spoken word
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
video
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Access
Restricted to qualified researchers.
- Cast
Introductory remarks: Lisa Rothe, Jacqueline Davis, and Ludovica Villar-Hauser.
- Event
Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., May 7, 2018.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Rivera, Chita, interviewee.
Ridge, Richie, interviewer.
Rothe, Lisa, speaker.
Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946- speaker.
Villar-Hauser, Ludovica, speaker.
Hoffman, Patrick.
League of Professional Theatre Women.
Character Generators/Video.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
- Other Form:
digital transfer of (videodisc): 1 videodisc ; 4 3/4 in. (OCoLC) 1079065565 Interview with Chita Rivera. New York:2018
- Research Call Number
NCOW 422