In the aftermath of the Palisades fires which took his home, Billy Crystal relives his memories and moments that mattered the most, and how the power of laughter can overcome the most difficult of times. 860 is a hilarious and intimate story about family, friendship, love, luck, and loss.
Tony® and Emmy Award®-winning comedian, actor, producer, writer, and director Billy Crystal is known to audiences around the world as the star of such feature films as
When Harry Met Sally…,
City Slickers, and
Analyze This; as a cast member of NBC’s
Saturday Night Live; and as the acclaimed nine-time host of the Academy Awards®. He received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2007, and in 2023 he was the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor, the highest award the United States gives for the arts. Crystal made his Broadway debut in 2004 with the original production of his one-man show,
700 Sundays, for which he won a Tony Award.
Director Scott Ellis is currently the Interim Artistic Director of Roundabout Theatre Company. His many Broadway productions include
Fallen Angels;
Art;
Pirates! The Penzance Musical;
Doubt;
Take Me Out (Tony Award, Best Revival);
Tootsie (Tony nomination);
Kiss Me, Kate;
She Loves Me (Tony nomination);
On the Twentieth Century (Tony nomination);
Harvey;
Curtains (Tony nomination);
The Little Dog Laughed (Drama League Award nomination);
Twelve Angry Men (Tony nomination);
The Man Who Had All the Luck;
The Rainmaker;
Company;
A Month in the Country; and
Steel Pier (Tony nomination).