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...show's casting is even grander than its ambitions. Chita Rivera (Anna) is about as small-time as Radio City Music Hall. Packing 30 years of Broadway savvy into the frame of a vivacious teenager, the 51-year-old entertainer could by now sell a song to the deaf; she commands the audience like a lion tamer with a whip snap in her walk; and, by the forces of magnetism and sheer will, she eats co-stars for breakfast. Thus it is partly noblesse oblige and partly the instinct for survival that keeps Liza Minnelli (Angel), the bigger...
...that country on a tour before my son was born, so he was a kind of hostage. But there is a moment in every person's life where you have to do what you have to do." Done, then, but not undone. When D'Rivera arrived on American shores in October 1980 with the considerable help and support of CBS Records President and inveterate Jazz Fanatic Bruce Lundvall, he found what he calls "a culture of quality. This country is not at all perfect. But still, Americans don't know the country they have...
They also, as the newly arrived exile discovered, tend to a certain confusion about other lands. The tasty title track of his second album, Mariel, summons memories of the Cuban port from which the boat people sailed in 1980. D'Rivera, already fatigued with explaining this and with insisting that "all the Marielitos are not so bad," has taken recently to saying that the song is about the leading lady of Star...
Avant-gardists might applaud his lyrical technique and solid bebop chops while nurturing doubts about his innovative abilities. D'Rivera tends a little toward caution himself-"I like electronics," he says, "but I am very careful with it"-and, even when searching for fresh inspiration, tends to stay close to the roots...
...Rivera has set up housekeeping in Manhattan with Singer Brenda Feliciano...