Kiss of the Spider Woman
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 13, 2007
Closed Oct 6, 2007
Opened Sep 13, 2007
Closed Oct 6, 2007
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Running Time:
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Following its 2007 Drama Desk nomination for "Outstanding Revival of a Musical" (H.M.S. Pinafore), the Vortex Theater Company collaborates once again with Drama Desk nominee Gisela Cardenas ('Outstanding Director of a Play,' Agamemnon, 2006) to reinvent one of the most classic musicals of the last twenty years, Kander and Ebb's Kiss of the Spider Woman - The Musical. Based on the best-selling novel by Manuel Puig, this dark tale of torture and imprisonment has become a cult hit among musical theater fans since it opened in 1993 and won seven Tony Awards. By pairing this traditional musical with a creative team well-versed in experimental theater, the Vortex creates a unique theatrical event that joins political ideology with a cabaret aesthetic. The result is a provocative new staging of this testament to the power of imagination under the most extreme circumstances.
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It's not your father or mother's
Kiss of the Spider Woman, now being presented by the adventurous Vortex Theatre Company at the Sanford Meisner Theatre. But then again, this musical version of Manuel Puig's novella by John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Terrence McNally was never really your parents' musical either.
Yes, the show still has its big production numbers -- cinematic fantasies that bring to mind the golden age of Hollywood -- but at its center, the musical is the story of two men imprisoned and tortured in a South American jail. In director Gisela Cardenas' hard-hitting staging, audiences are never allowed to forget this fact. And while her vision for Kiss proves both bracing and provo[...]