Tales of San Francisco

The San Francisco Chronicle's fictional serial "Tales of the City" about social life in the city spawned a series of popular novels, a television show, and now a new stage musical based on the first two novels. "Tales of the City" opened at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater and runs through July 24. Jeff Spurgeon finds out why the material is so appealing in any form from Charles Isherwood of the New York Times.