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Anecdotes that should feel emotional fall flat, meanwhile; Crystal tells us how much he loves jazz, how much he loved his Dad, how much he thought his Mom was a hero. But he never shows us how he feels—a failure, perhaps, of Crystal the actor.
In the end, my reaction to 700 Sundays was principally boredom, compounded by at least a bit of consumer-advocate outrage that Crystal is charging his fans so much money to see him, not at his best, but at his mediocre middling. (Contrast with Comic Relief colleague Whoopi Goldberg, who is delivering a great deal of her signature stuff in her current Broadway stand; Crystal gives us ten seconds of Sammy Davis, Jr. singing "Hey, There" and that's about it.)
Now, none of this should matter to people who feel affection and/or kinship to this very popular comedian; I know what it means to be a fan, and criticism from the uninitiated always feels beside the point. But to those who aren't diehard members of the Crystal camp, a word to the wise: there may be many more entertaining ways to spend a night out on Broadway than to sit through 700 Sundays.
The one-person show/showcase was undoubtedly a trend this fall as Whoopi Goldberg brought humor to her political opinions through Fontaine, the drug-saturated junkie, the talented but abrasive Mario Cantone mimicked and mocked celebrities, and the international doyenne Dame Edna channeled through Barry Humphries. What the genre lacked but finally got was the one-person reality-based Billy Crystal's "700 Sundays." This is a loving, funny, but mostly nostalgic autobiographical theater piece that delivers a story plus solid entertainment. Crystal, an extraordinarily talented entertainer making his Broadway debut, has written (with additional material by Alan Zweibel) a generously scripted tribute to his family, notably his parents.
It doesn't come as a surprise that Crystal's wordy but wittily informed narrative is graced with a nice mixture of shtick and sentimentality. It is directed with well-observed intervention by Des McAnuff, who also guided the original workshop at La Jolla last spring. Happily, the collaboration makes "700 Sundays" seem more like a heart-felt play than simply a self-serving showcase for a stand-up comedian.
Despite impressive production values that include set designer David E. Weiner's flat backdrop of the Crystal's family home in Long Beach, Long Island, and the use of slides and home movies of the family in various activities through the years, "700 Sundays" relies mainly on Crystal's ingratiating charm and story-telling ability. He begins his mainly chronological narrative at the time he is born and his circumcision – he remembers it well. As we are always interested in hearing about the connections between entertainers and the mob, Crystal has one for the books. For this he pays tribute to his father, Jack, who would become the 9 year-old Billy's first hero when he refuses a mobster's gift of a new car. It seems that the mobster, who grazed the family car, didn't want the insurance company or police notified. Jack died when Billy was 15. The title comes from the number of Sundays Crystal would have clocked with his father before his death.
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