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The Queen's Theatre in the West End is to be renamed after Stephen Sondheim to mark the composer and lyricist's 90th birthday.
The Academy Award-winner will become the first living artist to have a theatre named in his honour both in the West End and on Broadway.
The rebrand will come after a major restoration of the theatre's auditorium and backstage is completed, including renovation of wartime bomb damage.
The theatre will close on 13 July and reopen on 18 December, with its owners hoping to return the space to its pre-war splendour.
Speakign about the honour Sondheim said: "I am chuffed, as you say in British English, to a degree I wouldn't have imagined. Or as we say in American English, it's awesome."
The newly named Sondheim Theatre will remain the home of Les Miserables as it enters its 35th year.
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