I had just moved my daughter, my animals, everything from California and put her into Professional Children's school. So my hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days since we could not have rehearsals because of Bobby's health.
Finally, we're called back into rehearsal, and the producers tell us that they are going to have to end this, but fortunately everybody stuck together and when he was better, we continued.
The show did go on, but came very close to not going on at all.
- CHITA RIVERA on Talkin Broadway Interview with John Garcia
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"... well, the most amazing story was the first day of rehearsal. We had the read-through, and then we break for lunch. We come back and there's Gwen [Verdon] practicing her knitting, she might have been chewing gum, I'm not sure (laughs). So she's there knitting and we come in, then all of a sudden the mood changed because they (the producers) came flying in and took her out and I went, "Something's wrong". And sure enough, Bobby [Fosse, Director & Choreographer of Chicago, as well as Verdon's ex-husband] had just had his heart attack.
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