Billy Crystal Wins Helpmann Award for 700 Sundays

Billy Crystal, who won the Tony award last year and broke box office records with his Broadway hit 700 Sundays, won the Helpmann Award for Best Special Event for the one-man show.

The award is Australia's equivalent to the Tony. Crystal be honored in October with the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in Washington. The evening will be a star-studded event with Whoppi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Barbara Walters, Martin Short and many others.

Crystal, an eight-time host of the Academy Awards ceremony, starred in 'Soap' in the 1970s, before becoming a regular on "Saturday Night Live." He has appeared in films including Analyze This, Throw Momma From The Train, Deconstructing Harry, and City Slickers. His autobiographical one-man play, 700 Sundays, won him a Tony Award and became the highest grossing non-musical in Broadway's history.

Photo by Ben Strothmann