Some like it hot: San Francisco.(Front and center)(Brief Article)

SEX SELLS, SO IT CAN'T HURT THE viability of the Magic Theatre's 2003-04 season--the first under new artistic director Chris Smith--to kick off with Julie Marie Myatt's new play The Sex Habits of American Women, which starts Oct. 7. But lewdness-seekers take note: The titillating title refers not to especially prurient content, but to the 1950s sex manual that inspired the piece.

When she found Dr. Fritz Wittel's tract in a used bookstore five years ago, Myatt knew she wanted to create a work around it. With pompous sentences like "We shall now proceed to summarize and ...

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