I admit it: “Kiss of the Spider Woman” is one of my all-time favorite musicals. I’ve anticipated the big Kander and Ebb “Celebration” at Signature Theatre for months now, and Eric Schaeffer’s sexy, slithery revival does not disappoint.

Packed with equal parts estrogen and testosterone, Schaeffer’s “Kiss” punctures the myth that a decent reproduction can’t be made of Hal Prince’s original, ingenious take. It was 1994 when I first watched Chita Rivera dazzle an incarcerated mob from the hellish pits of despair to the heights of ecstasy, and I instantly fell head over heels, hopelessly in love with Kander and Ebb’s delectably jazzy score of Latin-inspired melodies —not to mention being starstruck with the legend herself.