Tom Selleck was starring on Broadway on 9/11. How they rallied to reopen | Exclusive

When it comes to memorializing the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Tom Selleck is renowned for the powerful 2012 “Blue Bloods” episode “The Job,” which revealed that his NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan was inside the World Trade Center’s North Tower on Sept. 11, 2001, and later struggled with survivor’s guilt as an old partner died from a 9/11-related illness. The episode also made “Blue Bloods” the first scripted TV series to film at the newly opened 9/11 Memorial.

But the "Magnum P.I." star was working on Broadway on Sept. 11, 2001, starring as Murray Burns in a revival of Herb Gardner’s “A Thousand Clowns” at the Longacre Theatre. The production, Selleck’s Broadway debut, had opened July 11 and ultimately closed Sept. 23, earlier than planned after attendance plunged following the terrorist attacks.

Below, Selleck writes this "postscript" to the tragedy 25 years later.

I was working with Dave Muntz – actually, ever since "Magnum" days – and a little before 9 a.m. on a Tuesday, he woke me up with a phone call.

I couldn’t see the World Trade Center towers from my Midtown apartment. But I saw the mass of black smoke billowing toward Brooklyn. I turned on the TV and…

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