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During the curtain call of a gala performance of "Sondheim On Sondheim," a new show by the Roundabout Theatre Company, it was announced that Henry Miller's Theatre on West 43rd Street will be renamed the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in July.

"Nobody knew, including Stephen Sondheim, that the theater was going to be named after him," said Roundabout Theatre artistic director Todd Haimes. "We managed, for once in this world, we kept it a secret. And I think he was really, really surprised, as was everybody in the audience."

"It's extraordinarily moving. And if you've known him for any length of time, it's still revelatory and wonderful," said actress Joanna Gleason. "Then you hear songs that you haven't heard in a while and you go, 'That's my favorite, no, no, That's my favorite.' You just can't get enough."

With a theater bearing his name, Sondheim will join a club that also includes stage legends Neil Simon, Eugene O'Neill, George Gershwin, Helen Hayes and August Wilson, as well as caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.

Sondheim is considered one of the most important composers and lyricists in modern Broadway history.