• Jennifer Lopez proves herself a musical theater star in Kiss of the Spider Girl, now in theaters.
• However does she wish to take her triple risk expertise to Broadway?
• Lopez weighs in on why the New York stage is a dream and why she's nervous she couldn't pull it off.

Jennifer Lopez has ensnared audiences in her net, starring in Kiss of the Spider Girl.

However is the multi-hyphenate star able to take her musical theater chops to Broadway?

"I've at all times considered it," the star admits to Leisure Weekly. "I've at all times had a fantasy of doing Broadway, however my life has at all times been the music and the films, so there's by no means been a time."

Now Lopez has confirmed herself prepared to overcome an old school musical, doing triple responsibility within the new big-screen adaptation of Kiss of the Spider Girl as basic Hollywood film star Ingrid Luna and the characters Luna performs, trend magnate Aurora and the lethal Spider Girl.

The movie, written and directed by Invoice Condon, offers Lopez a possibility to indicate off her interior theater child in unprecedented trend, dancing in lengthy takes by way of musical numbers and singing her face off.

"It could be a pleasant factor to decelerate and simply do one factor for a time frame," Lopez says of the prospect of starring in a Broadway present. "However it's an even bigger dedication. And I don't know if I might do eight exhibits per week."

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Lopez, who has toured the world as a world famous person and music artist, is probably going promoting herself brief. Certainly, she initially grew up with a dream of starring in musicals on stage and display screen — and that’s what she educated to do.

"These have been the types that I realized once I was a little or no woman," Lopez says of the number of dance within the movie. "I realized jazz, I realized ballet. I realized a Broadway model of dancing. Then, once I was a young person, I began doing hip-hop and avenue dances as a result of I grew up within the Bronx. After I began doing my very own music, I stayed in that model. So, individuals noticed me extra in that model for a very long time."

"However," she continues, "Spider Girl was like coming again to one thing that I had at all times completed. It took time, however I used to be so excited. I had that vocabulary in my physique already. So, it was dusting it off of the shelf and making it shiny and new once more."

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One factor Lopez needed to actually work at was having the ability to shoot a complete musical quantity with out cuts. "Invoice instructed me, 'I wished you to do that as a result of I do know that you would be able to carry out a quantity from starting to finish, and I received't should edit it,'" Lopez recollects. "And I used to be like, 'However we will do protection?' He was like, 'I actually don't wish to do it. I need you to have the ability to do it from high to backside.'"

Lopez met Condon's expectations if the ultimate movie is any indication. Spider Girl is her first main film musical, although she's been theater adjoining, enjoying Tejano famous person Selena early in her profession and dancing and singing in private tasks like This Is Me…Now.

Most notably, Lopez was as soon as connected to a possible stay TV manufacturing of Bye Bye Birdie, during which she was slated to play Rosie. It's nonetheless on her want checklist. "I’d die to do Bye Bye Birdie," she gushes. "It went away. That was going to be extra of a film, however it could be good to revive that on Broadway, too."

In the end, it's all about timing. "These exhibits like Kiss of the Spider Girl, they arrive as much as the floor after they must be seen," Lopez displays. "On the proper time with the precise individuals and the precise individual, who is aware of? We'll see what involves fruition when that point comes. However I do assume Broadway is in my future."

Kiss of the Spider Girl, additionally starring Tonatiuh and Diego Luna, is in theaters now.

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