Kiss of the Spider Woman
Shows · Kiss of the Spider Woman
In a Latin American prison cell, Molina, a gay window dresser jailed on a morals charge, shares a cell with Valentin, a political revolutionary. To survive the brutality of prison life, Molina escapes into fantasies about Aurora, the glamorous Spider Woman of B-movies, and gradually forms an unlikely bond with his cellmate as the prison warden tries to use Molina to extract information about Valentin's fellow revolut…
- Opened
- 1993
- Performances
- 904
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 1993.
Productions3 on Broadway
| 1992 | Transfer Theatre unknown. · predates this show | |
| 1993 | Broadhurst Theatre Original. · Harold Prince | 904 performances · 7 Tony wins |
| 1993 | Transfer Theatre unknown. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 4 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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51 passages naming Kiss of the Spider Woman, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
John Kander and Fred Ebb’s The Kiss of the Spider Woman (5/3/93; 906 performances). Terrance McNally contributed the book based on Manuel Puig’s novel. Chita Rivera, Brent Carver, and Anthony Crivello shone under Harold Prince’s exemplary direction. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p104
Prince’s next musical appeared destined to be a complete failure. Kiss of the Spider Woman premiered about an hour from New York City at the City University of New York’s Purchase campus. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p445
Lone with Dreamgirls, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Tommy Tune’s other visual extravaganza, Nine, Grand Hotel was one of the truly towering directorial achievements of the last twenty-five years. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p144
Kiss of the Spider Woman played in los Angeles for a year before moving to Broadway. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p230
Kiss of the Spider Woman, starring Chita Rivera in the title role and staged by Hal Prince, premieres at the Broadhurst Theater and runs for 904 performances. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p32
Shows that either have major characters who are homosexual or in which homosexuality is a significant feature of the plot include Hair (1968), Your Own Thing (1968), A Chorus Line (1975), La Cage aux Folles (1983), Falsettos (1992), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993), Victor/Victoria (1995), Rent (1996), The Producers (20… book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p193
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