Henry Miller’s Theatre is being renamed after Stephen Sondheim in honor of the great songwriter’s eightieth birthday. I’m all for that, but the hoopla surrounding the announcement of the coming dedication of the Stephen Sondheim Theatre inspired me to ask two questions: (1) Which other Broadway theaters are named after real-life people? (2) Who else deserves to be similarly honored?
I spent a couple of hours this week doing my homework, and the result is my “Sightings” column for Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, in which I offer a few suggestions for renaming various piles of brick and plaster on the Great White Way. If you’d like to know who’s on my little list, pick up a copy of tomorrow’s Journal and see what I have to say.
UPDATE: Read the whole thing here.
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