KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN – Review by Susan Granger
Winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman, based on Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel, delves into the complex relationship between two prisoners incarcerated in a cellblock in Buenos Aires, Argentina, circa 1983. Adaptors Eli Roth & Joe Crombie with director Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, Gods and Monsters) have discarded much of the deliberate calculation between the two disparate inmates in favor of sentimentality – skewing the focus on sultry, slinky Jennifer Lopez who vamps it up in full ‘diva’ mode in exuberant, elaborately staged musical numbers.
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