Watching “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” one thought kept crossing my mind – why has it taken this long for someone to put Jennifer Lopez in a musical?

Thankfully, director Bill Condon has righted this travesty. In “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” based on the 1993 stage musical, which is in turn based on Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel, Lopez plays the diva multiple times over. She is a movie star named Ingrid Luna – a vampy, musical siren a la Rita Hayworth or Marilyn Monroe. Half of “Kiss of the Spider Woman” follows the story of one of Ingrid’s most famous films, taking place within a Technicolor dream world of Vincente Minnelli.

But there’s another side to that colorful coin. The other half of the movie takes place within an Argentinian prison cell where a Marxist political prisoner named Valentín

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