Kiss of the Spiderwoman is the second Argentinian musical to have been on Broadway, just about 10 years after Evita closed. Though they both tell a story from the Argentinian perspective they could not be more different. Kiss of the Spiderwoman tells the story of a gay prisoner, Molina, who keeps his sanity by replaying movies of his favorite acatress, Aurora; particulary her role in Kiss of the Spiderwoman. He is then met with his cellmate, Valentin, who the prison guards want to get information out of. But since their torturous methods don’t seem to be working on him, they bribe Molina into having him get information from him instead. In the end, they end up falling in love and in a torturous scene we see them both beaten for information by the guards ultimately leading to Molina’s death. 

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The story lays out similar to that of Cabaret, we jump in and out of the story with theatrical commentary by an outside character. In this case we have Aurora, who, with the help of Molina’s storytelling, webs in and out of the story with extravagant numbers, climbing on jail cells and glorious costumes. “Aurora's gaudy, strutting numbers are a way out of hell, not into it; a tinseled lifeline to sanity, salvation for the damned” (Richards, NYT). The show ends in this world. We’re in a theater watching Molina and Aurora perform their final dance before he receives the kiss of death he’s been awaiting.