Rita Gardner was an American actress and singer who lived from October 23, 1934, to September 24, 2022. Before landing the lead place of Luisa throughout the genuine cast of The Fantasticks in 1960, Gardner made her stage debut Off-Broadway in Jerry Herman&rsquor’s musical revue Nightcap in 1958.
The Cradle Will Rock (1964), To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (1969), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1972), Steel Magnolias (1987), Wings (1993), and The Foreigner are amongst Gardner&rsquor’s many Off-Broadway credit score (2004).
Rita Gardner’s cause of death
Born in New York City, Rita Schier was the daughter of Nathan and Tillie Schier. She had an elder brother, Louis (or Lewis). Rita Gardner died of leukemia on September 24, 2022, in New York City, at the age of 87. In 2002, she appeared in her one-woman revue Try to Remember: A Look Back at Off-Broadway at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York City on Saturday evenings.
Rita Gardner husband
She married playwright Herb Gardner in 1957; the marriage ended in divorce in 1970. That same year, she remarried, Peter Cereghetti, who survived her.
Rita Gardner children
There is little information about Rita Gardner on the internet showing if she having children or not
Rita Gardner’s net worth
Rita Gardner had an estimated net worth of between $1 Million and $5 Million. Gardner made her Broadway debut in the short-lived musical A Family Affair in 1962 as Sally Nathan. She was featured in a brief 1963 revival of Pal Joey as Linda English and replaced Susan Watson soon after the opening of Ben Franklin in Paris in 1964
Rita Gardner funeral
Rita Gardner, an original cast member of the long-running Off-Broadway phenomenon The Fantasticks, died Saturday of leukemia at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. She was 87. funeral plans are yet to be made public. we will update up as soon as possible