Forty-three years after making his legit debut as Sydney Chaplin's understudy in Bells Are Ringing, Hal Linden is coming back to Broadway. The four decades in between the Comden-Green-Styne tuner and Arje Shaw's drama, The Gathering, have seen Linden win a Best Actor Tony for The Rothschilds, star in the evergreen TV sitcom "Barney Miller," follow Eli Wallach in Off-Broadway's Visiting Mr. Green, and enjoy a family life that's included a 43-plus-year marriage.

Forty-three years after making his legit debut as Sydney Chaplin's understudy in Bells Are Ringing, Hal Linden is coming back to Broadway. The four decades in between the Comden-Green-Styne tuner and Arje Shaw's drama, The Gathering, have seen Linden win a Best Actor Tony for The Rothschilds, star in the evergreen TV sitcom "Barney Miller," follow Eli Wallach in Off-Broadway's Visiting Mr. Green, and enjoy a family life that's included a 43-plus-year marriage.