Kiss of the Spider Woman is a musical with music by John Kander and Fred Ebb, book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the Manuel Puig novel El Beso de la Mujer Araña. The musical had runs in the West End (1992) and Broadway (1993) and won the 1993 Tony Award for Best Musical.
The show opened in New York to mixed reviews. Despite a pan by Frank Rich, the musical ran for 904 performances.
Luis Alberto Molina, a gay window dresser, is in a prison i...
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Kiss of the Spider Woman is a musical with music by John Kander and Fred Ebb, book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the Manuel Puig novel El Beso de la Mujer Araña. The musical had runs in the West End (1992) and Broadway (1993) and won the 1993 Tony Award for Best Musical.
The show opened in New York to mixed reviews. Despite a pan by Frank Rich, the musical ran for 904 performances.
Luis Alberto Molina, a gay window dresser, is in a prison in a Latin American country, serving his third year of an eight-year-sentence for corrupting a minor. He lives in a fantasy world to flee the prison life, the torture, fear and humiliation. His fantasies turn mostly around movies, particularly around a vampy diva, Aurora. He loves her in all roles, but one scares him: This role is the spider woman, who kills with her kiss.
One day, a new man is brought in his cell: Valentin Arregui Paz, a Marxist revolutionary, already in a bad state of health after torture. Molina cares for him and tells him...
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