Not relevant to Broadway or theater at all, but I sent a birthday card to Queen Elizabeth II in April and got a personalized response from her Lady-in-Waiting, Dame Annabel Whitehead, today.
"Mostly, I loved the size of these people's emotions. Nobody has emotions this size anymore. Outsized emotions. Operatic emotions. Kushemski and Vanda are like Tristan and Isolde, they're Paolo and Francesca. Nobody's in total thrall like this anymore. Nobody's overcome by passion like this, or goes through this kind of rage." Thomas, Venus in Fur