Chita Rivera, 85, is agelessly beautiful in scarlet lace on Tony Awards red carpet
She is one of two recipients of this year's Lifetime Achievement Award.
But Chita Rivera looked nowhere close to her 85 years when she arrived at Radio City Music Hall for the Tony Awards this Sunday.
The legendary hoofer, who became a Broadway star as Anita in the 1957 original Broadway cast of West Side Story, sheathed herself in a scarlet wrap.
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Radiant: Chita Rivera looked nowhere close to her 85 years when she arrived at Radio City Music Hall for the Tony Awards this Sunday
Her full-sleeved number was wrapped around a floor-length crimson gown that went off-the-shoulder at one end, emphasizing her still toned dancer's figure.
Chita, who was nominated for her first competitive Tony in 1961 and her latest in 2015, caked her face in makeup including a slick of dark lipstick.
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She matched her outfit to her red fingernails, shoes and purse, beaming as she posed with her right hand placed at her waist.
Both of her Tony wins - for The Rink in 1984 and Kiss Of The Spider-Woman in 1993 - came to her via her work with the legendary songwriting team Kander and Ebb.
Hello, gorgeous: The legendary hoofer, who became a Broadway star as Anita in the 1957 original Broadway cast of West Side Story, sheathed herself in a scarlet wrap
Fred Ebb and John Kander also wrote the score to Chicago, in which Chita originated the role of Velma Kelly and was nominated for another Tony in 1976.
The dance icon, who has had a hip and a knee replaced and has 16 screws in one of her legs, has 10 competitive Tony nods to her name - the record for a performer.
At Sunday evening's Tony Awards, she will receive the lifetime achievement award alongside Phantom Of The Opera composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Like that other great warhorse of Broadway, Ethel Merman, Chita famously lost out on some of her most plum roles when the shows were sold to the movies.
Anita in West Side Story went to Oscar-winning Rita Moreno, while Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie went to Janet Leigh, who did not add insult to injury with even an Oscar nod.
Inasmuch as the Chicago movie came out in 2002, more than 20 years after the show first opened, Chita was never going to reprise the role of Velma, which wound up in the Oscar-winning hands of Catherine Zeta-Jones.
