Catherine Zeta-Jones and Kristin Chenoweth own paid tribute to Chita Rivera.
After the Broadway icon handed away on Tuesday outdated-fashioned 91, fellow performers at the side of the Chicago actress and Plod superstar posted tributes to her online.
“From dreaming of being you as a tiny bit girl, then assembly you and then being deeply linked to you by taking part in the one and finest Velma Kelly in Chicago. There would possibly well perhaps no longer ever, ever, be anybody similar to you Chita, ever,” Zeta-Jones captioned a series of Rivera’s throwback photographs on Instagram. “Shadowy the lights on Broadway! Or, would possibly well well furthermore I counsel, we factual pull the dart. I fancy you Chita, sleep tight my Queen.”
Rivera originated the position of Velma Kelly in the Broadway manufacturing of Chicago in 1975 and Zeta-Jones conducted the character in the 2002 movie adaptation.
Over on X, formerly identified as Twitter, theatre superstar Kristin added, “Chita, there used to be finest you. Then everyone else. I looked up to you and constantly will savor you as a skill and mostly as a person! A kick butt girl you had been. Your complete relaxation of us factual wanna be you. RIP CHITA.”
Rita Wilson, who conducted Roxie Hart in a 2006 revival of Chicago, also paid tribute to the gradual Rivera.
“A correct epic. A educated. An artist. Kind,” Wilson wrote on Instagram. “On the anniversary of Chicago the Musical we shared a dressing room at a resort nearby. She made me feel as if I belonged in that dwelling with her, and on stage in Chicago.”
She persisted, “Her fancy of her art used to be so dispute. She had so worthy gratitude for being in a place to close the ‘job’ she liked and used to be supposed to close.”
Rivera’s death used to be launched by her daughter Lisa Mordente. She handed away after “a quick illness”.
