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Billy Crystal Is Coming Back to Broadway With a Very Personal Show

JL;DR SUMMARY Billy Crystal is set to return to Broadway with a deeply personal one-man show titled "860," following his successful performance in "700 Sundays." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CultureBroadwayStephen ColbertBilly CrystalScott EllisOne Man ShowTony AwardsPalisades Fire700 SundaysImperial Theater

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Long Island, New York, United States
"The very funny and extremely intimate play painted a vivid picture of the music-loving Jewish patriarch and Billys Jewish Long Island childhood, and earned the already successful actor and comedian his first-ever Tony."
California, United States
"860 is named after the street number of the house that Crystal and his family lost during the Palisades Fire."

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