![]() ![]() To this day, the musical remains the best-known version of Puig’s novel, even though he had almost no input and died (in 1990) when the musical was still in its earliest workshop stage. The musical, despite a rocky start, eventually won four Tony awards, including Best Musical. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Best Actor award for William Hurt (as Molina). ![]() Yet it has had what one commentator (Isaac Butler, writing in The New Yorker in December 2022) has called “a remarkable afterlife.” Puig himself adapted the novel as a play in 1983 that play in turn inspired a film version in 1985, with a screenplay by Leonard Schrader and directed by Hector Babenco and finally, the novel was reimagined yet again as a Broadway musical in 1993, with music and lyrics by Kander and Ebb and the book by noted playwright Terrence McNally.Īll three of these later incarnations received considerable critical acclaim. Manuel Puig’s novel Kiss of the Spider Woman was a critical failure when it was first published in 1976. Miranda Johnson-Haddad, Resident Dramaturg at A Noise Within ![]()
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