In honor of Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday next March, London’s Queen’s Theatre will be renamed Sondheim Theatre after the influential American composer and lyricist. This will make Sondheim the only living artist to have a theatre named for him both in the West End and on Broadway.
Theater owner Cameron Mackintosh today announced that the West End theater, which has been home to the world’s longest running musical Les Misérables since 2004, will close July 13 for four months of renovations and a complete restoration of the auditorium and backstage. It will reopen in December as the newly named Sondheim Theatre and will continue as the home of Les Mis as it enters its 35th year.
Sondheim said he had loved British theatre since he saw his first play in London in 1958 and is honored by Mackintosh’s gesture. “I am chuffed, as you say in British English,...
Theater owner Cameron Mackintosh today announced that the West End theater, which has been home to the world’s longest running musical Les Misérables since 2004, will close July 13 for four months of renovations and a complete restoration of the auditorium and backstage. It will reopen in December as the newly named Sondheim Theatre and will continue as the home of Les Mis as it enters its 35th year.
Sondheim said he had loved British theatre since he saw his first play in London in 1958 and is honored by Mackintosh’s gesture. “I am chuffed, as you say in British English,...
- 7/5/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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