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Billy Takes Broadway

The celebs turn out in force as Billy Crystal’s one-man show 700 Sundays opens.

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Last night at the Broadhurst Theatre, Billy Crystal made his Broadway debut in his one-man show 700 Sundays. “In this tribute to his parents in the form of a comic memoir,” Barbara & Scott Siegel wrote in their TheaterMania.com review of the show, “Crystal details growing up in a Long Beach, Long Island house filled with ‘the smell of bourbon and the sound of jazz.’ Here is a middle-class Jewish kid who saw his first movie while sitting on the lap of Billie Holiday. Blessed with a unique, fascinating childhood, Crystal manages the artful trick of telling a one-of-a-kind story that is nevertheless poignantly universal in its appeal.” Here’s a shot of Crystal at the press conference/after-party for the show at Tavern on the Green.

The opening was attended by celebrities of many stripes, including two generations of New York Yankees managers: Yogi Berra…


…and Joe Torre.

Among the other luminaries on hand: Robert DeNiro, soon to be seen on screen in Meet the Fockers…

…Jessica Lange, slated to star in the upcoming Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie…

…morning TV personality Regis Philbin with his wife, Joy…

…rock star/actor/sex symbol Jon Bon Jovi…

… Robin Williams, most recently seen on screen in Final Cut…

…TV star Camryn Manheim…

…Harvey Keitel, one of the stars of the hit film National Treasure…

…Tovah Feldshuh, whose triumphant Broadway run in the one-woman show Golda’s Balcony will finally come to an end on January 2…

…Andre de Shields, last seen on Broadway in the unforgettable Prymate…

…writer/interviewer James Lipton….

…Stanley Tucci, who co-starred with Edie Falco in the 2002 Broadway revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune…

…and Hairspray-meisters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

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Closed: June 12, 2005