Joanna Eberhart (Kidman) y su marido (Broderick), buscando una vida perfecta, se mudan al acomodado barrio de Stepford (Connecticut). A Joanna le intriga tanto que todas las esposas sean tan complacientes con sus maridos que, con la ayuda de una vecina bastante anticonvencional (Bette Midler), empezará a hacer indagaciones.
Director-choreographer Susan Stroman and librettist John Weidman construct an evening of three dance plays. The first deals with a "swinger" couple and their servant, whose sexual games suddenly change; the second finds an unhappy 1950s wife imagining herself the belle of a restaurant she attends with her abusive husband; and the final piece allows a suicidal executive to find life again chasing after a mysterious girl in a dance bar.
El matrimonio formado por Steffi y Bob es el paradigma de la familia burguesa de Nueva YorK: son ricos, liberales y socialmente comprometidos. Steffi estuvo casada con Joe, un tipo sin suerte con las mujeres, con quien tiene una hija algo inestable. Bob tiene un hijo conservador, una hija que ha puesto en peligro su boda al enamorarse de un delincuente y otras dos hijas adolescentes que se pelean por chicos multimillonarios. Todos ellos pasean sus problemas por Nueva York, París, Venecia.
The Will Rogers Follies is a musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman. It focuses on the life and career of famed humorist and performer Will Rogers, using as a backdrop the Ziegfeld Follies, which he often headlined, and describes every episode in his life in the form of a big production number. The Rogers character also performs rope tricks in between scenes. The revue contains snippets of Rogers' famous homespun style of wisdom and common sense and tries to convey the personality of this quintessentially American figure whose most famous quote was "I never met a man I didn't like."
