Harry and Sally were back on the same stage this week. Meg Ryan turned up at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway on Tuesday night to watch Billy Crystal perform his one-man show 860, and the two posed together under the lights once the curtain came down.
Crystal posted the photo to Instagram on Wednesday with a nine-word caption: “An old friend stopped by the Imperial last night.” Within a day the post, shared jointly with the show’s own account, had passed 44,900 likes and drawn more than 770 comments, many of them quoting lines from the 1989 film that made the pair a screen couple for life.
One commenter wrote “Baby fish mouth!” and said it is what they shout whenever words fail them; that reply alone collected over 400 likes. Others simply asked for a sequel.
A show built from a burned house
860 is named after the house number of Crystal’s former home, which was destroyed in the Los Angeles fires of January 2025. Across 90 minutes he walks the audience through the memories tied to that address. The run is scheduled to close on February 14, 2027, so fans hoping for another surprise guest have roughly 14 weeks left.
Crystal is 78 and Ryan is 64. The photo was taken by the production’s photographer, Valerie Terranova, credited in the post.
Harry and Sally, by the numbers
The film they are still asked about was never sold as a blockbuster. Columbia Pictures opened it in only 41 theaters, where it took $1,094,453 on its first weekend, then widened it slowly as word of mouth spread. It went fully national on July 21, 1989, and ended its North American run at $92.8 million against a $16 million budget.
That domestic total is 5.8 times what the picture cost to make ($92.8 million divided by $16 million). Add an estimated $100 million from overseas and the worldwide figure lands near $193 million, about 12 times the budget.
The prizes followed. Nora Ephron won the BAFTA for original screenplay and picked up an Academy Award nomination. In 2022 the Library of Congress added the film to the National Film Registry. The line delivered at Katz’s Delicatessen by director Rob Reiner’s mother, “I’ll have what she’s having,” sits at No. 33 on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest movie quotes. According to the film’s production history, the punchline was Crystal’s idea, while Ryan suggested setting the scene in a restaurant.
Their recent reunions
This is the latest in a string of reunions that has picked up pace as the film passed 35. Here is how the recent ones line up:
- 2023: Ryan honored Crystal at the 46th Kennedy Center Honors, joking that his wife Janice has known for more than 50 years how easy he is to fall for.
- February 2025: For the film’s 35th anniversary the pair went back to Katz’s Deli for a Super Bowl LIX commercial for Hellmann’s mayonnaise, restaging the famous lunch scene. Sydney Sweeney delivered the “what she’s having” line this time.
- March 2025: A month later they stood together at the Oscars to present Best Picture, which went to Sean Baker’s Anora.
- November 2026: Ryan visits 860 at the Imperial, and Crystal posts the photo the next day.
The film has carried extra weight lately. Reiner, who directed it, and Ephron, who wrote it, have both died, and much of the dialogue was drawn from the real friendship between Reiner and Crystal. Crystal has said the split-screen phone calls between Harry and Sally came straight out of his nightly calls with Reiner, including the “24-hour tumor” exchange. “That was pure us,” he said in an interview published this week.
In a TV interview the year after the Kennedy Center night, Crystal summed up what he feels when he looks back at the film: “As you get older, you look back, and you go, ‘That was a good one.'”
Anyone who wants to see the room where Tuesday’s photo was taken has until February 14, 2027, when 860 plays its final scheduled performance at the Imperial.
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