KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN to arrive on Bway in the Fall - NOT THE MUSICAL

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KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN to arrive on Bway in the Fall - NOT THE MUSICAL

Posted: 5/1/08 at 8:37am

Manual Puig's 1983 play, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, based on his 1976 book, and the basis for Kander and Ebb's musical adaptation, will arrive on Broadway in the fall.

The 2-character play (translated by Allan Baker and directed by Peter DuBois) will be making it's NY debut, following 2 successful stagings in London.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117984875.html?categoryid=15&cs=1

Updated On: 5/1/08 at 08:37 AM

re: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN to arrive on Broadway in the Fall

Posted: 5/1/08 at 9:22am

Are you kidding me?

The play?

I got so excited.

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re: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN to arrive on Broadway in the Fall

Posted: 5/1/08 at 9:23am

The play itself hasn't been in NY before??

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re: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN to arrive on Broadway in the Fall

Posted: 5/1/08 at 9:42am

UGH!

I got so excited too.

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 9:44am

UGH!

I got so excited too.

Yeah, same here.

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re: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN to arrive on Broadway in the Fall

Posted: 5/1/08 at 9:44am

EW! Straight plays? How vile!

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re: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN to arrive on Broadway in the Fall

Posted: 5/1/08 at 9:47am

Dang! I got all a-twitter thinking that the Signature production was gonna get the transfer it deserved!

The play isn't bad though...I used it for a paper in a comparative lit class back in college. Oh well...

re: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN to arrive on Broadway in the Fall

Posted: 5/1/08 at 9:51am

I've never read the play, but am curious to hear more about it and the casting.

I loved both the movie and musical...I'd see a straight play version.

re: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN to arrive on Broadway in the Fall

Posted: 5/1/08 at 9:54am

I am definitely curious about the casting too...I would probably guess that they are going to go with some big names.

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 9:54am

Oh, no, not that damn SPIDER WOMAN thing again. Can we just let that damn story die already?

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:15am

The play?

I want the DC Revival!

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#12

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:15am

I thought the production from the Signature as well.

Oh well, still happy the play is coming.

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#13

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:17am

This is April Fools day all over again. Yankee, change your title, although I know you're up there in New York laughing your f*cking ass off at this, your most cruel post-joke.

But this is kind of exciting. It's nice to see new productions of older adaptations.

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:20am

I've never seen the play live, but have read the book and the play, seen the movie, and actually directed a production of the musical.

I actually had a fantasy when I directed it of ALSO doing the play with the same lead actors.

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:22am

It needs to be made as a movie musical. Then the story would join MAME as something that has been made into a

BOOK
PLAY
FILM
MUSICAL
AND
MUSICAL FILM.

#16

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:00am

So...shall we talk casting? I would like to see a Latino cast do this.

Interesting trivia: Burt Lancaster tried for years to make this into a movie. He wanted to play Molina.

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:16am

Burt Lancaster would have been... a geriatric Molina.
Interesting factoid.

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:24am

Freddy Rodriguez and Guillermo Diaz?

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:52am

What a pity they'll be using the Baker translation. It's painfully dry and sounds very British-- in one scene, Valentin says, "That's romantic eyewash. You're daft." Yeah, real macho Argentinian. If they're going to spend the bucks on a new production, I wish they'd get a fresh new translation. Maybe Feingold's? I hear that one is much grittier...

As for casting, I've wanted to see Denis O'Hare and Raul Esparza do this show for years. (Tho' Raul will probably be old enough to play Molina soon enough.)

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 12:03pm

Oh, yes, and as for Burt Lancaster-- there's an early draft of the screenplay available online somewhere that was written when Lancaster was slated to play Molina (and Richard Gere as Valentin!). It's very different from the final screenplay, and re-imagines Molina as an ex-pat 59-year-old American. Rather strange.

"I hate musicals... People don't sing in real life."
"Well, maybe they should."
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Posted: 5/1/08 at 12:28pm

i literally choked on my coffee I got so excited. I'm still glad the play is coming, but part of me wonders if this will make it harder to get the musical back on Broadway in the near future

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 1:49pm

I read this on playbill.com and gasped when I read the KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN part...then I read non-musical

How many characters are in this play? Does anyone know by any chance?
Raul Esparza is more appropriate for Valentin than for Molina, I think. But I don't wanna see any musical theater actor in this play...all the time I'll be thinking that they could start singing "The Day After That," "Dressing Them Up," "Anything for Him" or some other wonderful Kander/Ebb tune.

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 2:05pm

Heh-- too true! But they would be terrific, wouldn't they?
I keep thinking Neil Patrick Harris would make an ideal Molina , either in the musical or play...

"I hate musicals... People don't sing in real life."
"Well, maybe they should."
--Kiss of the Spider Woman (cut line)

#24

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 2:30pm

Only two characters in the play - Valentin and Molina. Some voice overs too, if I recall correctly, but only two actors.

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Posted: 5/1/08 at 2:53pm

Hmm... if only for tradition's sake... Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick?

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"Well, maybe they should."
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