For this role he received his very first Drama Desk Award nomination. Over the next four decades he would continue working in NY theatre, both on and off Broadway, amassing an impressive 23 Broadway credits and establishing relationships with The Roundabout Theater, Second Stage Theater, Lincoln Center Theater and The Manhattan Theater Club, most memorably in the plays of the late great Terrence McNally. In 1996 he won his first Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for the hit revival of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum directed by frequent collaborator Jerry Zaks, who had cast him as Nathan Detroit in his much loved 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls which gave Lane his first Tony Award nomination and made him a star. In 1997 Mel Brooks had told him he was the only actor in the world who could play Max Bialystock in the musical version of his beloved cult film, The Producers, and in 2001 Lane played Max and won his second Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Olivier Award in London. He won his third Tony Award for his electric performance as Roy Cohn in the 2018 revival of Tony Kushner's masterpiece Angels in America.
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