News Flash: Stephen Sondheim To Have Broadway Theater Named For Him

MANHATTAN — Stephen Sondheim, one of musical theater's most renowned composers and lyricists, is getting a Broadway theater named after him.Henry Miller's Theatre, on West 43rd Street between Broadway and Avenue of the Americas, will now be known as the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.The announcement of the change was made during a performance Monday night of "Sondheim on Sondheim" at Studio 54.

The renaming also coincided with Sondheim's 80th birthday.Both Studio 54 and Henry Miller’s Theater are owned by the Roundabout Theater Company, where Sondheim's works including “Assassins” and “Pacific Overtures” had been staged, the New York Times reported.The paper said that a group of Sondheim devotees made a contribution to the Roundabout that led to the renaming. A figure was not disclosed.Sondheim's career has spanned more than 50 years, and he is best known for writing the lyrics to "West Side Story" and the musical adaptation of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."