The 1993 hit book The Bridges of Madison County is being made into a musical. For those of you who like music and stories about guys who sleep with other guys’ wives, this is your thing.
My initial draft of this post contained a faux track list of song titles I made up to go with the musical. The problem I found with satirizing adultery is that 1) things can quickly degenerate into raunchy innuendo and 2) instead of pointedly condemning the betrayal of one or more spouses, the humor may actually remove some of seriousness that I was getting at.
I don’t understand how a story about unfaithfulness qualifies as a romance. I doubt that those on the other side of relationships where their spouse cheated on them would see the romance in it.
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