Dinner with Rita Moreno

The Guadalupe presents Dinner with Rita – an evening with award-winning stage and screen actress Rita Moreno

Saturday, September 22, 2012

6 p.m.

Marriott Rivercenter

101 Bowie Street 78205

Tickets: $200; $150 (GCAC Members)

              $45 for performance only

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(San Antonio, Texas) The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in partnership with Capital One and Valero presents Dinner with Rita, on Saturday, September 22, 2012, 6 p.m. at the Marriott Rivercenter, 101 Bowie Street.  The gala dinner will feature the award-winning stage and screen actress Rita Moreno in “My Life with Words & Music,” an intimate glimpse of onstage and screen performances as it relates to both her Puerto Rican origins and efforts not to be merely typecast as an “exotic of whatever kind.” She belongs to an elite group of only eight living performers who have won entertainment’s grand slam of the industry's most prestigious awards: The Oscar, The Emmy, The Tony and The Grammy.

At just 80 years young, Moreno remains one of the busiest stars in show business. She is renowned for her role in the musical West Side Story (1961). She’s currently juggling performances of her own one-woman stage show, Life Without Make-up, with television appearances as Fran Drescher's mother in TVLand's Happily Divorced. In addition, Moreno is preparing to record a new album as a follow up to her self-titled CD and is currently at work penning her autobiography. 

Tickets for Dinner with Rita include dinner, musical performance and a private after party with the guest of honor. Tickets are $200 per person; $150 for GCAC members.  The Guadalupe has partnered with Valero to bring performance-only tickets at $45.  The musical performance begins at 8:30 p.m. For more information, call (210) 271-3151, ext 211; email meganb@guadalupeculturalarts.org or visit www.guadalupeculturalarts.org.

 ABOUT RITA MORENO:

Rita Moreno’s Oscar win came in 1962 as Latina spitfire “Anita” in the film version of West Side Story for which she also won The Golden Globe. The Tony was for her 1975 comedic triumph as Googie Gomez in Broadway's The Ritz.  The Grammy was for her 1972 performance on The Electric Company Album, based on the long-running children's television series. She won not one, but two Emmys – the first for a 1977 variety appearance on The Muppet Show and the following year for a dramatic turn on The Rockford Files.

In addition to film, stage, television and concert commitments, Moreno fills her spare time by lecturing to various organizations and university audiences on such varied topics as The Value of Diversity to our Culture, The Power of Language, Getting Older without Getting Old and A History of the Arts in Film TV & Theatre. She is also involved with a number of civic and charitable organizations and events.

Moreno has served on The National Endowment for the Arts and as a Commissioner for The President’s White House Fellowships. She has also served as a member of The President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.  At a White House ceremony in June 2004, Moreno was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. The medal is the highest honor bestowed upon a civilian and ranks only second to The Congressional Medal of Honor as the nation’s highest award. It is conferred on individuals for a lifetime of meritorious service. In 2007, Moreno was inducted into the California Hall of Fame by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2010, she was awarded The National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama as well as the Here I Stand Award for activism in the arts and the HOLA Lifetime Achievement Award.

ABOUT THE GUADALUPE:

The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center is a 501c(3) non-profit organization founded in 1980 to preserve, promote and develop the arts and culture of the Chicano/Latino/Native American peoples for all ages and backgrounds through public and educational programming in six disciplines: dance, literature, media arts, theater arts, visual arts and music. For more information, call (210) 271-3151 or visit www.guadalupeculturalarts.org.

 

 

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