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Tickets On Sale For 'A Conversation With Rita Moreno' Next Month On University Of Denver Campus

(CBS4) - Rita Moreno is coming to the Newman Center at the University of Denver next month. The show will feature a candid conversation with the Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy-award winning actress.

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Rita Moreno walks the carpet at the 15th Annual WIF Oscar Party at Bar Lis in Hollywood, California, on March 25, 2022. (Photo by Lisa O'CONNOR / AFP) (Photo by LISA O'CONNOR/AFP via Getty Images)

"A Conversation with Rita Moreno" will be moderated by Aisha Ahmad-Post, the Executive Director of the Newman Center. It will take place Thursday, May 12th at 7:30pm in the June Swaner Gates Concert Hall. Audiences will get to enjoy a Q&A with the actress and will be able to enjoy clips from performances throughout her career.

Besides the show, Denver Film will also be honoring Rita Moreno with its Women+Film Inspiration Award. The luncheon is on Friday, May 13th at 11:45am at the Denver Art Museum. Besides Moreno, Carlotte Walls LaNier will also be honored. LaNier was the youngest member of a group of Black students, known as the Little Rock Nine, to enroll in the formerly all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 9: In front of a projected portrait of her younger self, entertainer Rita Moreno addresses a crowd as part of the National Portrait Gallery's Living Self-Portrait presentation at the National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday, July 9, 2014, in Washington, DC. Moreno, 82, belongs to an elite group of only eight living performers who have won the entertainment industry's grand slam: the Oscar, the Emmy, the Tony, and the Grammy. (Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Tickets to "A Conversation with Rita Moreno" start at $39 and are on sale now.

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