{"id":2082614,"date":"2025-10-10T20:59:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2082614"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:59:39","slug":"bill-condon-on-the-art-of-adapting-the-movie-musical-from-chicago-to-kiss-of-the-spider-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bill-condon-on-the-art-of-adapting-the-movie-musical-from-chicago-to-kiss-of-the-spider-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Condon on the Art of Adapting the Movie Musical, From \u2018Chicago\u2019 to \u2018Kiss of the Spider Woman\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bill Condon<\/a> knows how to bring a musical to the big screen.<\/p>\n

His screenplay for the 2002 Oscar-winning \u201cChicago\u201d helped reinvigorate the genre after a long fallow period. He then stepped behind the camera to write and direct 2006\u2019s \u201cDreamgirls<\/a>,\u201d a movie that won Jennifer Hudson<\/a> an Academy Award for her debut feature role. In 2017, he pulled double-duty, directing the live-action \u201cBeauty and the Beauty\u201d and sharing writing credit on \u201cThe Greatest Showman<\/a>,\u201d both massive hits. And today, he sees the release of his latest movie musical, \u201cKiss of the Spider Woman<\/a>,\u201d featuring Jennifer Lopez<\/a>, Diego Luna<\/a> and newcomer Tonatiuh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The secret to a good musical adaptation? Condon<\/a> has a seemingly simple answer. \u201cThe crucial question you have to ask when you are revisiting something is: is it necessary?\u201d he admits. \u201cWhy do it?\u201d<\/p>\n

In the case of this new \u201cSpider Woman,\u201d there were several factors. Condon had read the 1976 Manuel Puig<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Condon knows how to bring a musical to the big screen. His screenplay for the 2002 Oscar-winning \u201cChicago\u201d helped reinvigorate the genre after a long fallow period. He then stepped behind the camera to write and direct 2006\u2019s \u201cDreamgirls,\u201d a movie that won Jennifer Hudson an Academy Award for her debut feature role. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2082615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2082614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bill-Condon-on-the-Art-of-Adapting-the-Movie-Musical.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082616,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082614\/revisions\/2082616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2082615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}