BWW Flashback: Billy Crystal's 700 SUNDAYS Concludes Broadway Run Today!
By: BWW Special Coverage Jan. 05, 2014
Billy Crystal's 9-week Broadway return will conclude this afternoon when his Tony Award-winning, record-breaking play 700 Sundays, closes at the Imperial Theatre (249 West 45th Street). 700 SUNDAYS, an autobiographical journey, is an original two-act play in which Billy plays numerous characters that have influenced who he is today. It deals with his youth, growing up in the jazz world of Manhattan, his teenage years, and finally adulthood. It is about family and fate, loving and loss.
Below, BroadwayWorld tributes Crystal's return to the stage with a photo and video flashback of some of the highlights from the show's run.
Photo Credit: Carol Rosegg
Billy Crystal was pronounced "The King of Broadway" by The New York Post for the Broadway debut of 700 Sundays which, in its opening week on Broadway, broke the house record for highest weekly gross at the Broadhurst Theatre and then continued to top its own record every week. With a cumulative gross of over $21 million, 700 Sundays set a record for the highest weekly grossing non-musical in Broadway history at that time ($1,061,689 for the week ending 5/22/05) and was one of the top ten grossing shows every single week of its run, despite playing only six performances per week. The show won the 2005 Tony Award for Special Theatrical Experience and both the 2005 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance.
Following the Broadway production, Billy played sold-out limited engagements of 700 Sundays in Toronto, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Billy then took 700 Sundays to Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, where both engagements sold out upon announcement and won the 2007 Helpmann Award for Best Special Event. In 2009, Billy brought the show back to the United States with engagements in six major cities: Washington, DC; Philadelphia; Dallas; Palm Beach; Miami; and Atlanta. This fall's Broadway engagement will mark the show's first return to New York since its Broadway debut.
Below, check out phtoto abd video coverage from opening night!
Photo Credit: Walter McBride
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Billy Crystal does a cartwheel
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Billy Crystal parting words
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