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Show business loves two kinds of news: the gritty comeback and the sparkling debut. One sentimentalizes the past; the other sentimentalizes the future. Both burnish the legend of individuality in a largely collaborative medium. By this yardstick, Broadway ought to cheer sevenfold the last and best musical of the season, Kiss of the Spider Woman. Its U.S. debut next week will turn the clock back to high noon for four long-absent old hands aged about 60 and herald the dawn of three substantial younger talents...
...Crivello acts with bluff intensity and sings with beauty and power. The men's cramped quarters and surrounding tiers of cagelike squalor become a park, a movie palace, a Russian alley, even a vast, symbolic spiderweb through inspired film projections by set designer Jerome Sirlin, making a dazzling Broadway debut after a career in the avant- garde and in opera...
...instincts prevailed. Reviewers came, saw and slaughtered, halting Kiss and killing its sponsor, a fledgling agency set up to nurture musicals. Prince now says, "Irony of ironies, the fiasco may have helped. The show's political consciousness is much better suited to this moment." But to achieve a sparkling debut, Kiss has already had to sustain its own epic comeback...
...signed for the debut of a revised Kiss in Toronto last summer and for the London run in the fall but would not commit to Broadway until she was given more to do, notably a film-fantasy scene set during the Bolshevik Revolution. Before that was written, Rivera found her role a sort of < decorative overlay, a symbol without a persona. It demanded a lot of her as a singer but not as a dancer or an actress. "I wanted to be a part of the story," she says. "Even now, I can't remember a show where I spent...
...Poonsters were ejected from the debut party late last night after distributing copies of the parody. The party, at which several Boston bands performed, was televised in part...