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“”You can’t act with someone you idolize,” Chita Rivera states in Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life when she recalls her first reaction to costarring with Gwen Verdon in Chicago. Edgard Gallardo knows exactly how she felt. He, after all, is the one who partners with Chita for the Dancer’s Life excerpt from West Side Story.
Yes, in “Dance at the Gym,” he’s playing Bernardo to the original Anita. He’s mamboing with Chita Rivera, the first Hispanic to receive the Kennedy Center Honors and a beloved celebrity in his native Puerto Rico. To assuage his nerves and excitement, he had to convince himself “to treat her like any other partner.” Gallardo says that when he first started doing the role””and the lift that goes with it”””all I’m thinking is: “Here is the well-being of the whole show sitting on my right shoulder.’” Talk about carrying a show!…”
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