Kiss of the Spider Woman
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Opened Mar 11, 2008
Closed Apr 20, 2008
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
This production stars Natascia Diaz (Aurora), Hunter Foster (Molina), and Will Chase (Valentin).
Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman weaves a distressing tale of persecution into a "dazzling" (Newsweek) theatrical web. Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer brings to life the "thrilling" (New York Times) tale of two men, a window dresser and a socialist rebel, forced to share a jail cell in Argentina. Imprisoned for their beliefs and lifestyles, each man comes to find comfort in the other's company as the line between reality and fantasy blurs.
Contains mature subject matter
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I hope we're all strong because if the rest of Signature Theatre's four month, multi-faceted Kander & Ebb Celebration is as pungent and emotionally captivating as the first entry, Kiss of the Spider Woman, we'll be completely wrung out by the time it's over. The 1993 Tony Award winner for Best Musical seems re-born here, fresh and intense under Eric Schaeffer's sharp direction.
Equally important, Hunter Foster provides heart as Molina, a conflicted, movie-obsessed prisoner, and Natascia Diaz provides heat as his muse, the exotic and cinematic Spider Woman/Aurora. The foul conditions and moral squalor of a dictator's prison, escapist fantasy, brutality, love, and betrayal are all ratchete[...]