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A Broadway theatre at West 43rd Street in New York City, The Henry Miller's Theatre, was renamed The Stephen Sondheim Theatre on September 15, 2010, in honor of his 80th birthday.

In attendance were Nathan Lane, Patti LuPone, and John Weidman.

Sondheim said of the naming, " I'm deeply embarrassed.

Thrilled, but deeply embarrassed.

I've always hated my last name.

It just doesn't sing.

I mean, it's not Belasco.

And it's not Rodgers and it's not Simon.

And it's not Wilson.

It just doesn't sing.

It sings better than Schoenfeld and Jacobs.

But it just doesn't sing.

" Lane said of the day, " We love our corporate sponsors and we love their money, but there's something sacred about naming a theatre, and there's something about this that is right and just.