Broadway legend Chita Rivera dances through her life in a new memoir

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An admirer once said Chita Rivera had "the fastest feet on Broadway."

At age 90, she's a legendary dancer and proved it in the big musicals of her day — Bye Bye Birdie, Can Can, Chicago, and the biggest — West Side Story. Her talent as a dancer was almost as big as her birth name, which she shared with NPR in an interview: "Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero. Now, the rest of it is Montestuco Florentino Carnemacaral del Fuente."

Her new, eponymous memoir Chita — written with Patrick Pacheco — dances through the patterns of her brilliant career.