NewsChita Rivera Is Back for Revenge in Spell-Binding New Visit TV Spot (Video)Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Chita Rivera is back with a vengeance in the new Kander and Ebb musical The Visit. A dazzling new TV spot has just been released for the dark, romantic musical that opens on Broadway April 23.
By
Adam Hetrick
April 21, 2015
Based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1956 play, The Visit has a score by Tony Award-winning Cabaret, Chicago and Kiss of the Spider Woman collaborators John Kander (music) and the late Fred Ebb (lyrics). The musical features a book by Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Master Class, It's Only a Play).
Tony Award-winning director John Doyle (Sweeney Todd, Company) directs. The Visit features choreography by Tony Award nominee Graciela Daniele.
Here's how it's billed: "In her juiciest role yet, Chita Rivera is Claire Zachannassian, the world's wealthiest woman, who returns home to Anton Schell (Roger Rees) who captured her heart then shattered her dreams. What she does next shocks the town and makes for the most thrilling and intriguing musical in years... This tale of romance, seduction and betrayal proves that revenge is the best revenge."
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.