Jennifer Lopez to Star in KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN Film- Page 15

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 3/12/25 at 8:29am

Day after that comes across as very Les Mis. Don’t get me wrong I really like it, but I can see why it was cut 

[FANtomFollies]

Posted: 3/12/25 at 9:09am

binau said: "How thin/poppy/autotuned does Jennifer Lopez sound in the songs? I don’t think I could go any thinner than Vanessa Williams without being a little disappointed. Doesn’t have to be Chita though clearly.

Does anyone think that Nicole S would actually be amazing in a revival? She can go the full spectrum of dark, quiet, eerie and powerful belt. Plus she has the stage presence. The kind of names thrown around previously (Audra, DeBose) haven’t quite felt right."

100%. I would kill for a Jamie Lloyd production of Spider woman starring Nicole. 

[vfd88]

Posted: 3/12/25 at 10:25am

iluvtheatertrash said: "No “Day After That” is very disappointing."

I saw it at Sundance and I was most disappointed by this cut. It’s replaced with a monologue where Valentin describes the political rally from the song but Diego Luna (as with the rest of his performance) underplays it in a way that’s pretty uninspiring. 

[nealb1]

Posted: 3/12/25 at 12:44pm

Really looking forward to seeing this.  

As we all know, once film rights are bought and sold, all bets are off.  Unless it's in the terms of the contract that all the songs have to remain, no changes can be made, etc, then it's complete open season for changes.  "Cabaret" is the perfect example.  

[Listener]

Posted: 3/14/25 at 1:37am

I'm curious what you mean by this, regarding the Cabaret movie. I don't know the full history there. Were songs and sequences cut after it was all shot because of studio preferences...?

[FolliesCabaret]

Posted: 3/14/25 at 2:40am

nealb1 said: "Really looking forward to seeing this.

As we all know, once film rights are bought and sold, all bets are off. Unless it's in the terms of the contract that all the songs have to remain, no changes can be made, etc, then it's complete open season for changes. "Cabaret" is the perfect example."

I think that's more of a Bob Fosse example and less of a Cabaret example.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/14/25 at 4:07pm

Listener said: "I'm curious what you mean by this, regarding the Cabaret movie. I don't know the full history there. Were songs and sequences cut after it was all shot because of studio preferences...?"

Bob Fosse's 1972 film adaptation of CABARET, just like the film adaptation of WICKED did with Gregory Maguire's original novel and Broadway production, used both the original source books by Christopher Isherwood and the 1966 Broadway production. Bob Fosse's concept was to keep CABARET in a realistic setting therefore chose to keep all the musical numbers (aside from the outdoor "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" number) performed strictly inside the Kit Kat Klub. All the book songs were cut from the written script including the characters that sang them, even though they are seen briefly and instrumental versions of cut songs underscore scenes. What you see in the film is exactly what was filmed.  John Kander and Fred Ebb wanted new songs in the film which is why several "performance" songs from the original Broadway production were replaced with new songs ("Mein Herr", "Money, Money, Money", and their recycled "Maybe This Time").  The multi-Oscar winning film released theatrically in 1972 is exactly what was greenlit and filmed.  

[kdogg36]

Posted: 3/14/25 at 5:16pm

I interpreted nealb1's comment to mean that filmmakers are free to make changes to the original material once the deal is made (barring any contractual stipulations to the contrary), and that Kiss of the Spider Woman resembles Cabaret in the sense that the director chose to exclude a large number of nondiegetic songs. I don't think they meant to imply that things got cut after the film was shot.