text:  She had worked in the theater for almost 60 years. She used to talk about the late 70s, the time period of which the same thing was being said. New York was told to drop dead. The Bronx was burning. Crime was up. The theaters were being torn down. That was a way worse time than what we're talking about now. And yet at the same time, what came out of that afterwards was in the 80s,