"Saturday night August 19th, Chita Rivera was performing onstage at the Ice Palace at Cherry Grove in a revue celebrating her 70 years onstage. Evidently, she was performing all her famous numbers - some more than once. Then there have been reports that she suffered a fall onstage.
While performing "The Hot Honey Rag" from Chicago she supposedly fell into the drum kit all the way down. I think maybe she fell off the front of the stage and into the pit???
The musicians lifted her up and initially Chita said "Let's finish the number" like the old trouper she is...
But then Chita went into shock and had to be lifted off the stage. "
Doesn't anybody attribute anything anymore? This report was lifted word for word from an All That Chat post, which in turn was obviously paraphrased from a post on Datalounge before the ATC post.
That said, while I do believe the event happened, especially given SonofRobbie's report, I haven't seen it referred to anywhere else. Rivera does not seem to have acknowledged it, even though her daughter was present (and possibly dancing with her, according to both untruncated posts).
I imagine she was embarrassed by the accident, and she will probably scale back any future performances.
I'm with ACL2006. She's had a long and successful career. I'd hate for her to be injured doing a strenuous and overly long revue.
Her body, her choice, of course.
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