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Kiss Of The Chita Rivera

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Another Broadway production that Puerto Rican Legend Chita Rivera was in was Kiss of the Spider Woman-The Musical (1993-1995). This seven time Tony Award winning musical was based off of Argentine novelist Manuel Puigs’ novel El Beso de la Mujer Araña . The novel was later turned into a film in 1984 and then staged into a musical in 1993. Rivera received a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Aurora in the musical on Broadway. Kiss of the Spider Woman-The Musical tells the story of two cellmates, Molina and Valentín, and their daily conversations in an Argentine prison as well as the intimate bond they form in the process. Of the three lead actors playing Latinos in the Original Broadway Production Rivera

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