Diva/Mensch pair for Aug 5, 2026

The 1982 Tony for Best Play went to The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a two-part, eight-and-a-half hour adaptation of the Dickens novel. Major Diva attitude just deciding to bring it to the stage.

Another nominee that year was Crimes of the Heart, a charming little comic drama about three sisters in the South, total Mensch territory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TlrFxaQlyw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dycVuqZOIg