This week we chat with Matt Young about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the movie-obsessed, Kander and Ebb written, Chita Rivera vehicle - Kiss of the Spider Woman!
In his review of the Broadway production for The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that the musical "does not meet all the high goals it borrows from Manuel Puig's novel. When it falls short, it pushes into pretentious overdrive (a "Morphine Tango", if you please) and turns the serious business of police-state torture into show-biz kitsch every bit as vacuous as the B-movie cliches parodied in its celluloid fantasies. Yet the production does succeed not only in giving Ms. Rivera a glittering spotlight but also in using the elaborate machinery of a big Broadway musical to tell the story of an uncloseted, unhomogenized, unexceptional gay man who arrives at his own heroic definition of masculinity."
- FURTHER READING -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_of_the_Spider_Woman_(musical)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_of_the_Spider_Woman_(play)
https://stageagent.com/shows/musical/2375/kiss-of-the-spiderwoman
https://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/kissofthespiderwoman/synopsis.htm
http://www.playbill.com/production/kiss-of-the-spider-woman-broadhurst-theatre-vault-0000002005
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