By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

" 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. What I've found out and what I believed is that everybody is talented. The Stephen Sondheim Society's Student Performer of the Year Competition
An annual event the competition gives 12 young musical theatre students from top UK drama schools and universities the opportunity to compete for a prize of £1000.

He is the winner of an Academy Award eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer)including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre eight Grammy Awards a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award. haɪm/; born March 22 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for his contributions to musical theatre. Cameron Mackintosh has described Sondheim as "possibly the greatest lyricist ever.