Debra Goldman's Consumer Republic

It doesn’t take long for Menopause the Musical, a revue that opened off-Broadway in New York last week, to get to the point. No sooner do its four main characters—all middle-aged women—meet in the underwear department at Bloomingdale’s than they are talking trash about The Change. “You mean the silent passage?” one asks, to which her sister replies, “It isn’t the silent passage anymore.”