Two women in pink tops pose playfully against a bright yellow geometric background, with the text 'I Love Bette Midler' at the top.

Sue Mengers was way tougher than I am. You go through your life, you’re a certain age, a lot of things have happened to me, but I needed to put those aside and let the audience affect me in a simple way…

[her reaction of Broadway audiences] “I learned to accept the audience’s happiness for me, which is one of the hardest…