Billy Crystal Play Comes to Audible Theater for Two Nights Only
Billy Crystal, comedy legend wrote a play and he’s bringing it to New York City for two nights only to record the show for Audible.com.
In addition to being a tv and movie star, a nine time host of the Academy Awards, a voice over star and a stand up comedy giant, Billy Crystal is a Tony Award Winning playwright and stage performer. But we haven’t seen him on stage since the 2013 limited revival of his 2004 award winning play 700 Sundays.
Audible is bringing Crystal back to the stage in October, with an all star cast to perform a live reading of his latest- described as a poignant story about a man desperately scrambling to put his affairs in order to save his presidency, his marriage, his relationship with his daughter and possibly his life.
Titled “Have a Nice Day” stars Crystal along with Annette Benning and Kevin Kline in the thirteen role cast which has not yet been fully announced. The live read will be recorded with a live theater audience at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre and will be available to Audible listeners worldwide.
Kevin Line plays President David Murray who has lost control of Congress and needs to decide whether he will run for a second term. His wife, and his teenage daughter are barely speaking to him, and its at this moment that the Angel of Death has chosen to send a “repo man” to give Murray a the news that he has only one day to live. Crystal plays the Angel of Death.
The play was written by Crystal and Quinton Peeples and runs October 7th and October 8th at 8:00PM.
Audible members receive exclusive access to discounted tickets at www.audible.com/minettalane.
Audible’s theater initiative unleashes the artistic creativity of playwrights around the globe to deliver language-driven storytelling and inspire captivating performances on stage and in audio. Billy Crystal, Annette Bening, and Kevin Kline join Audible’s previously announced fall slate of live performances at the Minetta Lane Theatre including Patti Smith in Patti Smith: Words and Music, Aasif Mandvi in Sakina’s Restaurant, Chisa Hutchinson (Audible’s first commissioned playwright from its $5M emerging playwright fund)’s Proof of Love, and Isaac Gomez’s the way she spoke.
