Billy Crystal Sets Opening Date, Venue For Broadway Solo Show ‘860’

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Billy Crystal’s caller one-man show 860, directed by Scott Ellis (Fallen Angels, Art), will statesman a constricted 14-week Broadway engagement astatine nan Imperial Theatre connected Thursday, October 1, officially unfastened connected Wednesday, October 21, and tally done Sunday, January 3, 2027.

The complete imaginative squad for nan antecedently announced accumulation will beryllium announced successful nan coming weeks.

Producers Janice Crystal, James L. Nederlander, Larry Magid, and Face Productions made nan date-and-venue announcement today.

The 860 synopsis: “In nan aftermath of nan Palisades fires which took his home, Billy reflects connected his family and his profession – nan memories and moments that mattered nan most, and really nan powerfulness of laughter tin flooded nan astir difficult of times.” The title refers to nan thoroughfare number of Crystal’s location that was destroyed successful nan fire.

Crystal, who appeared connected nan June 7 Tony Awards telecast to coming nan Best Play Revival Award to Death of a Salesman, made his Broadway debut successful 2004 pinch nan original accumulation of his one-man show 700 Sundays, for which he won a Tony Award. The Broadway accumulation was taped successful beforehand of a unrecorded assemblage for an HBO typical that aired successful April of 2014, and successful 2022, Crystal returned to Broadway pinch Mr. Saturday Night, a philharmonic adjustment of his 1992 movie of nan aforesaid name.

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