Billy Crystal‘s career, from his catch-a-rising-star stand-up days of the 1970s, his groundbreaking role as TV’s first regular-cast gay character on the sitcom Soap and through his years as both a top Hollywood director and what many consider the greatest host in Oscar history, gets a fine, funny and emotional telling in 860, Crystal’s new solo show opening tonight on Broadway.
And if the fact that it’s Crystal himself performing the career retrospective that most stars don’t live to see, the show quickly dissipates any notion of self-congratulations or back-patting: Crystal is the sort of comic who can infuse his
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