Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Female Dancer in a Broadway Show
The Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Female Dancer in a Broadway Show was an annual award presented to a female dancer for their work on a Broadway production. The award was included when the awards began in 1982, as the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards.
The award was separated from Off-Broadway productions, which received its own category, in 2017, when the awards were renamed in honor of Chita Rivera. The award was replaced by the gender-neutral Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Dancers in a Broadway Show in 2023.
Winners and nominees
1980s
Year |
Recipient |
Production |
Ref. |
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1982 |
Ann Miller |
Sugar Babies |
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1983 |
Natalia Makarova |
On Your Toes |
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1984 |
No award given. |
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1985 |
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1986 |
Debbie Allen |
Sweet Charity |
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1987 |
No award given. |
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1988 |
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1989 |
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1990s
Year |
Recipient |
Production |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
1990 |
No award given. |
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1991 |
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1992 |
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1993 |
Chita Rivera |
Kiss of the Spider Woman |
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1994 |
Margaret Illmann |
The Red Shoes |
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1995 |
Charlotte d'Amboise |
Damn Yankees |
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1996 |
Donna McKechnie |
State Fair |
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1997 |
Bebe Neuwirth |
Chicago |
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Ann Reinking |
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1998 |
No award given. |
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1999 |
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2000s
Year |
Recipient |
Production |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
2000 |
Deborah Yates |
Contact |
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2001 |
Kate Levering |
42nd Street |
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2002 |
Sutton Foster |
Thoroughly Modern Millie |
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2003 |
Elizabeth Parkinson |
Movin' Out |
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2004 |
Donna Murphy |
Wonderful Town |
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2005 |
No award given. |
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2006 |
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2007 |
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2008 |
Karen Olivo |
In the Heights |
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2009 |
Pia Glenn |
You’re Welcome, America: A Final Night with George W. Bush |
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2010s
Year |
Recipient |
Production |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
2010 |
Nicole Chantal de Weever and the Female Ensemble |
Fela! |
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2011 |
Sutton Foster |
Anything Goes |
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2012 |
Lisa Nicole Wilkerson |
Porgy and Bess |
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Elena Roger |
Evita |
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Ashley Amber |
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Bahiyah Hibah |
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Jan Maxwell |
Follies |
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Krystal Joy Brown |
Leap of Faith |
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Patti Murin |
Lysistrata Jones |
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Kara Lindsay |
Disney's Newsies |
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Kelli O'Hara |
Nice Work If You Can Get It |
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2013 |
Charlotte d'Amboise |
Pippin |
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Taylor Louderman |
Bring It On |
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Laura Osnes |
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella |
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Patina Miller |
Pippin |
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Andrea Martin |
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Stephanie Pope |
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Lesli Margherita |
Matilda |
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2014 (tie) |
Karine Plantadit |
After Midnight |
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Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards |
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Heléne Yorke |
Bullets Over Broadway |
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Karen Ziemba |
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Krystal Joy Brown |
Big Fish |
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Gayle Rankin |
Cabaret |
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Monique Smith |
After Midnight |
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2015 |
Leanne Cope |
An American in Paris |
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Annaleigh Ashford |
You Can't Take It With You |
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Jill Paice |
An American in Paris |
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Megan Fairchild |
On The Town |
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Erin Davie |
Side Show |
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Emily Padgett |
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XiaoChuan Xie |
The King and I |
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Melanie Moore |
Finding Neverland |
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2016 |
Jane Krakowski |
She Loves Me |
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Mara Davi |
Dames at Sea |
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Eloise Kropp |
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Deanna Doyle |
Tuck Everlasting |
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Sandra Mae Frank |
Spring Awakening |
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Ana Villafañe |
On Your Feet! |
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Adrienne Warren |
Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed |
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2017 |
Megan Sikora |
Holiday Inn |
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Andrea Dotto |
Bandstand |
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Jaime Verazin |
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Lora Lee Gayer |
Holiday Inn |
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Eloise Kropp |
Cats |
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Georgina Pazcoguin |
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Christine Cornish Smith |
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Emma Pfaeffle |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
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2018 |
Ariana DeBose |
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical |
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Yesenia Ayala |
Carousel |
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Skye Mattox |
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Brittany Pollack |
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Hailey Kilgore |
Once on This Island |
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Katrina Lenk |
The Band's Visit |
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Ashley Park |
Mean Girls |
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2019 (tie) |
Ashley Blair Fitzgerald |
The Cher Show |
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Gabrielle Hamilton |
Oklahoma! |
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Amber Gray |
Hadestown |
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Leslie Kritzer |
Beetlejuice |
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Angie Schworer |
The Prom |
2020s
Year |
Recipient |
Production |
Ref. |
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2020 |
No awards ceremony held due to COVID-19 pandemic. |
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2021 |
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2022 |
Tendayi Kuumba |
for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf |
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Sutton Foster |
The Music Man |
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Robyn Hurder |
Moulin Rouge! |
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Heather Lang |
Jagged Little Pill |
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Adrienne Warren |
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical |
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