Kevin Spacey played to a crowd of hundreds in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night as part of an attempted comeback tour, but his show got off to a rocky start when, he said, a fan tried to take a selfie with him as he was about to take the stage.

“Don’t ever f**k up an entrance like that ever again,” the actor said.

Spacey settled in after that, appearing to charm an audience of Israeli fans who had come to see his one-man show, “Songs & Stories,” in the Tel Aviv Port’s Hangar 11.

Dressed in a dark suit and bow tie, eminently comfortable at the microphone, Spacey sang jazzy favorites and oldies in a slightly hoarse voice, alternating tunes with stories from his childhood and years of acting.

“I’m so excited to be back in Israel,” said Spacey.

The show opened with a video vignette of his famed film moments — from “The Usual Suspects,” “American Beauty” and others — including when Spacey won one of his two Academy Awards.

But the shadow of the past eight years hovered over the night. Beginning in 2017, Spacey was accused by dozens of men of sexual misconduct of varying degrees, and multiple legal cases were filed against him. After two acquittals in major court cases, Spacey is now attempting to revive his career, which had come to an abrupt halt.

Spacey joked about the cancellation, recalling being fired from Netflix’s “House of Cards,” the acclaimed political drama that he headlined, and not being legally allowed to mention the characters’ names from the show. (After the accusations surfaced, he was ordered to pay some $30 million in damages to the streaming giant.)

“I don’t want to say anything too controversial, but I have to be honest, it’s beginning to look like I won’t get to do the last season of ‘House of Cards,’” he said on Wednesday, to weak laughter from the........

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