860
Opening Night: October 21, 2026
Theater: Imperial Theatre
Website: www.billycrystal860.com
Home is more than a street number. In the aftermath of the Palisades fires that took his home, Billy relives his memories and moments that mattered the most, and reflects on how the power of laughter can overcome even the hardest of times. 860 is a hilarious and intimate story about family, friendship, love, luck, and loss. Directed by Tony Award® nominee Scott Ellis.
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October 21, 2026
Making comedy is what Crystal does with loss… With “860,” he proves that he has only grown more skilled at deploying laughter to assuage the pain of grief. Crystal may be heartbroken, but he is absolutely at home revisiting his past onstage.
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October 21, 2026
His hair might be white, but his sculpting of a moment is still unparallelled: this is both the funniest and saddest show on Broadway right now, and with good reason.
READ THE REVIEWOctober 21, 2026
860 is as succinct as it is poignant, with Crystal taking audience members by the hand and down his memory lane — and refusing to let go of their hearts.
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October 21, 2026
Crystal is the sort of comic who can infuse his material with just the right amount of self-deprecation to seem like something of an underdog in life’s kennel, a pretty impressive feat given the man’s charmed life.
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October 21, 2026
If Crystal and Ellis had stayed on that tack — tales about the house at 860 bound together by a sense of its loss — 860 might have the sturdiness of a tearjerker. Crystal’s inspirational messaging may not be profound — he makes much of discovering a rock with the word “laughter” on it in the ashes — but it has force. Still, he’s a little afraid to alienate an audience and face the brunt of this grief head on. Who can blame him? There are more fun things to talk about, like the beginnings of his career as a stand-up, his friendship with Muhammad Ali, making When Harry Met Sally…, how he got lucky with the Vietnam draft, and, and, and…
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October 21, 2026
Crystal is a master of polished shtick who is also uncommonly connected to his audience; he makes the 1,450-seat Imperial Theatre, which normally hosts huge productions like Les Misérables and Chess, feel cozy. (700 Sundays and 860 are the only non-musicals to play there since the Seventies.) When he’s up there getting laughs, he seems completely at home, and—the consummate host, as ever—he invites us all in.
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October 21, 2026
But what the extraordinary Crystal manages in “860,” his latest one-man Broadway show that opened Wednesday night at the Imperial Theatre, is a feat. He takes the devastating 2025 Palisades fire in California, and the total destruction of his family’s cherished home that they lived in for 46 years, and makes it funny.
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His latest solo show, 860, proves again that there’s likely no such thing as a bad time in Crystal’s company, even if its structure stretches any notion of “plot”… As a frequent Oscars host, Crystal is expert at maintaining an agreeable atmosphere without sacrificing character or zingers, and it’s tough to muster much to complain about this production, however slight it might end up feeling.
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October 21, 2026
“860,” despite being a one-man show, plays like a big opera without any singing. The stage at the Imperial repeatedly explodes, and it’s not just the Palisades fire that keeps us riveted.
READ THE REVIEWOctober 21, 2026
Making a show about a recent public trauma isn’t easy to pull off, but Crystal has managed it as perhaps only he could. “860” is a meditation on loss, but it’s also a theatrical memoir of his multifarious career as a comic, actor, filmmaker and celebrated Oscar host… Crystal, the emcee of all emcees, tells the story of his home with buoyant humor and charm, turning loss into living memory.
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October 21, 2026
“700 Sundays” was clearly the better-developed show, neatly integrating Crystal’s personal memories with observational and lowbrow humor. “860,” which runs approximately 100 minutes without an intermission, relies more on career anecdotes and video clips. The things in his office give him reasons to tell these stories, but some still feel like padding. That said, “860” works. Crystal is talking about people he loved and the home where he raised his family. I could have easily and happily stayed longer listening to him tell more stories and jokes.
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The intervening 90 minutes are infused with so much humor — as Crystal tells stories and shares anecdotes relating to the memorabilia adorning his now-defunct office — that you almost forget the devastation he’s experienced. Almost.
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Although the evening breezily directed by Scott Ellis and featuring original music by Marc Shaiman threatens to become maudlin and self-pitying when Crystal lengthily recounts his anguish upon the loss of his home and all of his possessions, he manages to sidestep the pitfall with his frequent uproarious jokes. Accompanying his account with home movies and photographs that make the loss vividly palpable, he still manages to end the evening on a joyful, uplifting note. 860 is a master class in the autobiographical blending of humor and emotion.
READ THE REVIEWOctober 21, 2026
Through it all, he demonstrates why he was invited to host the Oscars nine times and the Grammys three times. He is an endearing presence with a gargantuan talent; and his brand of humor is universal. Audiences younger than 50 may not recognize some of the names he mentions but he still manages to make it LOL funny.
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Director Scott Ellis’s straightforward and briskly paced staging is enhanced by Hana S. Kim and Kylee Loera’s time- and scene-setting videos and Marc Shaiman’s music. 860 arrives on Broadway 22 years after Crystal’s 700 Sundays, his Tony Award-winning solo piece about his late father. Like that work, this monologue motors on his Jewish pride, nostalgic storytelling, impeccable timing, affectionate impressions, and go-there goofiness. Watching him recreate his birth is unforgettable — and that cuts both ways.
READ THE REVIEWOctober 21, 2026
Grandpa Crystal knows just how to entertain us, and to put us at ease even in the face of profound loss. By the end of 860, you’ll be tempted to offer him a warm hug instead of a standing ovation.
READ THE REVIEWOctober 21, 2026
Crystal’s deep and profound sorrow at the loss of his director and friend Rob Reiner, not to mention Robin Williams, are very much present in the show. But he is too much of a servant of his audience to base his entire production around how life reorders its winners and losers in one’s late years, when health and family tend to knock professional accomplishments back to earth. I wish Crystal had lingered longer in those areas, to be honest, rather than wasting the middle of his 90-minute show on what feels like a greatest-hits retrospective.
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