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Broadway Cheers for Cheating

Audiences are going wild for Promises, Promises, a jolly musical about married executives having affairs with their secretaries. Janice Kaplan on why infidelity is back on Broadway—and what it says about America.

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Americans’ ambivalent attitudes about sex are on display in the musical Promises, Promises—a cheery songfest about married men screwing their secretaries. It’s a premise that should offend just about everyone; instead, preview crowds on Broadway have been laughing and whooping, and giving the stars a standing ovation.

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