“You know when you walk into a conversation and two friends are laughing so hard you start to laugh? You have no idea what they are laughing about but the energy is infectious.
Video: Christopher Sieber Shares His Broadway Firsts
Sieber is currently starring in Death Becomes Her at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
By: Joey Mervis
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What are some of the milestone moments that have most impacted our favorite Broadway performers? We're finding out with 'Broadway Firsts'- a series that unpacks the events that shaped the stars who grace theatre's biggest stages.
Did you know that Death Becomes Her marks Christopher Sieber's 13th Broadway show?! BroadwayWorld caught up with him in between shows to find out some more of his very own Broadway Firsts!
"My first role onstage was probably in 3rd grade. I played Colonel Cuddly in the Christmas pageant," he explained. "I heard laughter for the first time and I knew that was for me. So thank you, Colonel Cuddly!"
Watch in this video and find out even more about his latest gig here!
Sieber started performing shows in his parents’ living room, where he was a triumph at age 7 in “The Christopher Comedy Cavalcade of 1976,” seen by both his parents and unsuspecting neighbors driving by. Then he went immediately to Broadway, where he has been for almost three decades. He has starred in Company, The Prom, Matilda, Pippin, La Cage aux Folles, Shrek (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics noms), Monty Python’s Spamalot (Tony nom and West End Production), Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Into the Woods, Beauty and the Beast, and Triumph of Love. Television: “Blue Bloods,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “The Good Wife,” “The Good Fight,” “Elementary,” “Ed,” “Sex and the City,” “Pushing Daisies,” “It’s All Relative,” “Two of a Kind,” and lots of daytime TV, like “Guiding Light,” “All My Children,” and “Another World,” where his many recurring characters never went anywhere….
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