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Broadway Star Chita Rivera Presides Over Gay Wedding Backstage At “The Visit”

[caption id="attachment_201216" align="alignnone" width="600"]tn-500_img_7304 Producer Tom Kirdahy officiated the ceremony.[/caption]

You been waiting 33 years to tie the knot. You love Broadway. You’ve seen Chita Rivera grace the stage countless times. What better place to finally get married than backstage at The Visit, her latest Tony-nominated show?

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Longtime partners Javier Bustillos and Anthony Chase have seen Chita Rivera in every show she's appeared in, and every incarnation of The Visit. So it made perfect sense that the two exchanged rings, vows, and a kiss backstage at the Lyceum Theatre, where Chita Rivera served as witness alongside Visit playwright, Terrence McNally.

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For their honeymoon, Bustillos and Chase attended that evening’s performance of Visit, Kander and Ebb's tale about the richest woman in the world (Rivera) getting revenge on the town that did her wrong.

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Now that’s a wedding with razzle dazzle!

h/t: Broadway World, Photos: Jessica Fallon Gordon

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