Ilana Keller

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Here's your shot to go back to school with Chita Rivera.

The Broadway legend is taking part in a conversation about her career as part of director John Doyle's Princeton University course "Luminaries of the American Musical Theater."

The session will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12 at the school's James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, 185 Nassau St., Princeton. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required.

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Rivera is a record 10-time Tony Award nominee, with two Leading Actress wins. She most recently was seen on Broadway in "The Visit," which was directed by Doyle. First recognized for her portrayal of Anita in the original Broadway production of "West Side Story," she also starred in the Broadway revival of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," the Broadway and touring productions of "The Dancer's Life," which celebrated her theatrical career, and the revival of the Broadway musical "Nine," as well as "Bye Bye Birdie," "The Rink," "Chicago," "Jerry's Girls," "Kiss of the Spider Woman," and the original Broadway casts of "Guys and Dolls," "Can-Can," "Seventh Heaven" and "Mr. Wonderful." She was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2009, and was the first Hispanic woman selected as a Kennedy Center Honoree, in 2002.

Rivera will discuss her work with Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, John Kander and Fred Ebb, and other musical theater luminaries during Monday's session.

Doyle’s course focuses on seven icons of American musical theater in the past 60 years, according to a news release — Michael Bennett, Fosse, Kander and Ebb, Harold Prince, Robbins and Stephen Sondheim. Students are studying the scripts and performances of musicals, presenting new production ideas and engaging in lectures by professional musical theater figures.

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Other guests have included Ted Chapin, president of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, Tony-nominated choreographer and director Graciela Daniele, Tony Award-winner Donna McKechnie, who originated the role of Cassie in "A Chorus Line," EGOT-winning orchestrator and composer Jonathan Tunick and four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally.

Doyle is a Tony Award-winning director recognized for his work on the Broadway revivals of "Sweeney Todd" and "Company," and this past year received a Drama Desk Award as best director of a musical for his revival of "The Color Purple," for which he also was Tony-nominated. He has taught in Princeton’s Program in Theater and the Princeton Atelier for the past three years, and is the artistic director of Class Stage Company in New York City.

Visit luminaries-chita-rivera.eventbrite.com for reservations.

For more information on the Program in Music Theater and other events offered by the Lewis Center for the Arts, visit arts.princeton.edu.

Ilana Keller: 732-643-4260; ikeller@gannettnj.com