Chita Rivera, Tony-Winning Broadway Star, Dead at 91

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4. What a loss!

I saw her in 'Merlin' (also in the cast were Doug Henning, Nathan Lane, and Christian Slater) in the 80's. She played the evil Queen, brilliantly. The show itself wasn't one of the best I'd seen, but she was a definite high point.

That was way back when the average person could actually still afford a ticket to a Broadway musical.

(I had previously seen Doug Henning in Maryland. Got some tickets at a decent price. They were Row AA, which I assumed was way toward the back. Turned out that AA was the first row where they had removed the orchestra, so I was right against the stage. It would have been much better to be further back, since I cold see every wire and even into the wings at times when his crew were making the magic happen.)