The EGOT honoured James Earl Jones was honoured on Monday with the Cort Theatre on Boradway now renamed the James Earl Jones Theater. As the 91-year-old actor calls time on voicing Darth Vader, his name – already immortalised across the galaxy – will live on above the 110-year-old theater.
Legendary stage and screen actor James Earl Jones received a rare honor Monday as a Broadway theater was renamed after him.
The push of a button illuminated a marquee that used to read “Cort Theatre.” Now, it’s the “James Earl Jones Theatre.”
Jones is very familiar with the 110-year-old theater that now bears him name, as he explained to CBS2’s Dana Tyler in 2005 while appearing in “On Golden Pond.”
“I’ll be in the same theater where I did my first stage play, which was ‘Sunrise in Campobello,'” he said.
The 91-year-old did not attend Monday’s ceremony but delivered a video message.
Monday’s dedication ceremony included performances from Broadway veterans Norm Lewis and Brian Stokes Mitchell, along with appearances by Mayor Eric Adams and actor Samuel L. Jackson, among other former co-stars and collaborators.