Talk about your beginner’s luck: in his first crack as a stage director Jerry Seinfeld is headed all the way to Broadway, and Colin Quinn – you know, the guy who has to get on stage and perform the show eight times a week — is coming along, too. “Colin Quinn Long Story Short,” the one-man show starring Mr. Quinn, the comedian and “Saturday Night Live” alumnus, will transfer to the Helen Hayes Theater for an 11-week run, its producers said on Tuesday. The show, in which Mr. Quinn humorously condenses about 2,000 years of human history into about 75 minutes, was originally presented at the Bleecker Street Theater over the summer, where it was directed by Mr. Seinfeld.

In a telephone interview on Tuesday, Mr. Quinn was both elated and relieved to be returning to the Helen Hayes Theater, where in 1998 he performed his solo show “Colin Quinn – An Irish Wake.”

“I’m quietly becoming New York’s premiere actor,” Mr. Quinn said. “People don’t understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian. I’m like Elaine Stritch.”

Mr. Quinn said he and Mr. Seinfeld had not originally contemplated a Broadway run for “Long Story Short.” But at the end of the summer, he said they began hearing from producers who indicated the 600-seat Helen Hayes Theater would be available in the fall.

The size of that house seemed to make sense for Mr. Quinn, as did a modified eight-show weekly schedule: for Broadway, “Long Story Short” will forgo a traditional Wednesday matinee (“Those are lovely ladies at those shows,” Mr. Quinn said, “I just don’t know if it’s the show for them”) and will instead present three performances on Saturday.

“It’s a little ridiculous,” Mr. Quinn said of his Saturday obligations. “Maybe you could do some Times exposé, like they do on the sweatshops in Indonesia.”

Asked how his fledgling director felt about the impending transfer, Mr. Quinn said Mr. Seinfeld was relishing the show’s rapid ascent.

“He’s walking around like Florenz Ziegfeld in a giant top hat,” Mr. Quinn said.

The Broadway run of “Colin Quinn Long Story Short” is to begin preview performances on Oct. 22 with an official opening night of Nov. 9. Reviewing the Bleecker Street Theater production for The New York Times, Charles Isherwood wrote that Mr. Quinn brought a “distinctive every-guy’s perspective to the galumphing march of civilization toward — well, toward whatever it is we are approaching, as Blanche DuBois so lyrically put it.”