Bette Midler On Falling In Love With The Theater:”I just fell in love with the theatre when I was 16. And I thought that if I had to have a career in the theatre the way to do it was to get a job on the Now York stage. I mean they don’t have much theatre in Chicago or Cleveland. See, I figured it was the only place to go so I came. I learned enough about the scene when I was in that show (Fiddler) to know it would be very difficult to make a life in the theatre, especially the way the theatre is these days” (Zoo World, October 25, 1973)