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Catherine Zeta-Jones leads celebrity tributes to Chita Rivera alongside Kristin Chenoweth as she gushes of the late Broadway icon 'there will never, ever, be anyone like you'


Both Jones and Rivera played murderess Velma Kelly in Chicago. Jones played her in the 2003 film adaptation of the musical after Rivera originated the role on Broadway.

Rivera's career began by change in 1951, when she reportedly accompanied a friend to the audition for the touring company of Call Me Madam starring Elaine Stritch, but ended up landing the role herself. Last year, the Washington, DC-born triple threat did a whole book tour in promotion of her 320-page autobiography Chita: A Memoir - co-written by Patrick Pacheco - which HarperOne published on April 25 Last year, the Washington, DC-born triple threat did a whole book tour in promotion of her 320-page autobiography Chita: A Memoir - co-written by Patrick Pacheco - which HarperOne published on April 25.

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