Perhaps the most sexist production of the 60's ...
We saw it in Play-form last night. Songs like, "Everybody needs a maid" ... "To Jiggle" ... "To Giggle" ... "To Wiggle" .... were truly horrific, although they elicited a lot of laughs, due to the effeminate acting that went with the song.
All the women's roles were visual (showing off their sexuality) and superficial. No woman in this play had more than 15 lines!
It was well produced and there were some funny lines, but the sexism was constant (I'm a 53-yr old male and it made me uncomfortable). When the men weren't talking about the younger women they were ape'ing all women.
How about this humorous sub-plot trajectory? My lord how awful it was to be married for 30 years to an older woman, how can i get rid of her! How many times have I seen that before? Oh, only about ... 50,000 !!
The audience did laugh a fair amount, mostly to the sondheim numbers, but I assume it's because it was an audience made up mostly of people in the late 50's, 60's, and 70's, from a more sexist era. This piece of theater is something from the 60's that definitely should be forgotten.