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Tony and Emmy Award victor Billy Crystal will return to Broadway this autumn successful 860, his caller solo show named for nan location he mislaid successful nan 2025 Palisades fires. Scott Ellis will direct.
Written and performed by Crystal, 860 will play a strictly constricted 12-week engagement astatine a Shubert Theater to beryllium announced, opening previews this October.
“I americium thrilled to return to Broadway this autumn pinch this challenging caller show,” Crystal said successful a statement. “860 was nan reside of nan location we mislaid successful nan Palisades fires. We lived location for 46 years. I induce you to travel wrong 860 and I’ll show you each nan funny and rubbing things that happened there, not only successful my profession but to our family.”
Crystal continued, “It’s a joyous and heartfelt visit, astir really pinch nan emotion of family and friends and your soul strength, you tin get done reliable times. I look guardant to returning to Broadway and welcoming audiences to 860.”
860 will beryllium produced by Janice Crystal, James L. Nederlander, Larry Magid, and Face Productions. Additional accumulation and imaginative squad members will beryllium announced successful nan coming weeks.
Crystal made his Broadway debut successful 2004 pinch nan original, Tony-winning accumulation of his one-man show 700 Sundays, astatine nan clip nan highest grossing non-musical accumulation successful Broadway history. Taped successful beforehand of a unrecorded assemblage for an HBO typical that aired successful April 2014, 700 Sundays garnered 4 Emmy nominations and was released connected DVD that fall.
Crystal returned to Broadway successful 2022 pinch Mr. Saturday Night, a philharmonic adjustment of his 1992 film. The philharmonic drama received 5 Tony nominations including Best Musical; Best Leading Actor successful a Musical (Crystal); Best Book of a Musical (Crystal, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel); Best Featured Actress successful a Musical (Shoshana Bean) and Best Original Score (Jason Robert Brown and Amanda Green). The formed medium was Grammy nominated.
Director Ellis is presently nan Interim Artistic Director of Roundabout Theatre Company, and his galore Broadway credits see nan existent Fallen Angels arsenic good arsenic Art, Pirates! The Penzance Musical, Doubt, Take Me Out (Tony Award, Best Revival), Tootsie, Kiss Me Kate and galore others.
