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Billy Crystal unpacks the deeply personal inspiration behind his one-man show, titled '860.'

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00:00It sort of emerged to me, um, I can tell the story, um, and link it up to all the
00:09videos that I had already done,
00:11and then I started thinking about this in a way that I think was separating me from the pain of
00:16what was happening.
00:17It wasn't just, oh, I'm going to make a play out of this. No, it was healing me at the
00:21same time.
00:22I'm so excited to be back on Broadway with my new one-man play, 860.
00:26I'm the one man. There's stories about my career from New York to L.A. to Mastropolis and all the
00:32stuff in between.
00:33This is a story not of the fire. This is a story about resilience. This is a story about, um,
00:40family.
00:40This is a story about laughing, loving, support, moving forward, facing things you never thought were possible beyond the house
00:52and coming to grips with them and letting it in and then turning it into something that feels beautiful to
01:00do every time I do it.
01:02Long Beach back then was a sleepy little beach town, about 10,000 people in the winter and 4 or
01:065 million in the summer.
01:07I felt the same thing with 700 Sundays, except the pain of those moments were a little further removed.
01:13Comparing the two, 700 was very much about a young boy discovering comedy and discovering laughter, discovering performing,
01:23and then growing up, losing his dad early, then utilizing the fact that that performing can heal.
01:33It can, as I say on the show, keep it at bay.
01:38And then 860, all those dreams of 700 Sunday come true in, in 860, in that house, in that lifetime.
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