Billy Crystal Sets Fall Broadway Return In Solo Show ‘860’

Tony and Emmy Award winner Billy Crystal will return to Broadway this fall in 860, his new solo show named for the home he lost in the 2025 Palisades fires. Scott Ellis will direct.

Written and performed by Crystal, 860 will play a strictly limited 12-week engagement at a Shubert Theater to be announced, beginning previews this October.

“I am thrilled to return to Broadway this fall with this challenging new show,” Crystal said in a statement. “860 was the address of the home we lost in the Palisades fires. We lived there for 46 years. I invite you to come inside 860 and I’ll tell you all the funny and touching things that happened there, not only in my career but to our family.”

Crystal continued, “It’s a joyous and heartfelt visit, about how with the love of family and friends and your inner strength, you can get through tough times. I look forward to returning to Broadway and welcoming audiences to 860.”

860 will be produced by Janice Crystal, James L. Nederlander, Larry Magid, and Face Productions. Additional production and creative team members will be announced in the coming weeks.

Crystal made his Broadway debut in 2004 with the original, Tony-winning production of his one-man show 700 Sundays, at the time the highest grossing non-musical production in Broadway history. Taped in front of a live audience for an HBO special that aired in April 2014, 700 Sundays garnered four Emmy nominations and was released on DVD that fall.

Crystal returned to Broadway in 2022 with Mr. Saturday Night, a musical adaptation of his 1992 film. The musical comedy received five Tony nominations including Best Musical; Best Leading Actor in a Musical (Crystal); Best Book of a Musical (Crystal, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel); Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Shoshana Bean) and Best Original Score (Jason Robert Brown and Amanda Green). The cast album was Grammy nominated.

Director Ellis is currently the Interim Artistic Director of Roundabout Theatre Company, and his many Broadway credits include the current Fallen Angels as well as Art, Pirates! The Penzance Musical, Doubt, Take Me Out (Tony Award, Best Revival), Tootsie, Kiss Me Kate and numerous others.