Video: Christopher Sieber Is Finding Joy in Playing DEATH BECOMES HER's 'Boring' Character

Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World

You know my guest, Christopher Siever. He's one of Broadway's favorite leading men

Well, now he's back at Belun Fontaine, co-starring opposite Megan Hilty and Jennifer Samard

in the hit musical Death Becomes Her, and I caught up with him here at The Legendary Sardis

You are back on Broadway. I am. I am. I am. The old neighborhood

Let's talk about being a part of Death Becomes Her. Let's talk about it. What's it like living in that incredible world

Well, yeah. I mean, the cool thing is I'm back at the Lund Fontaine Theater, which is one of my favorite theaters

And it is where my husband and I met, Kevin Burroughs, and I met during Beauty and the Beach

That was there. And so I'm now in the floor below where it was my old dressing room at the lunch, which is nicer

But, yeah, so we're doing Death Becomeser now at the Lund Fontaine Theater

and it is a gigantic, campy, absurd comedy world that we live in

And we were, I'm working with two, three, three, powerful, incredibly funny, hilarious women

Jennifer Samard, who is basically my show wife now. You know, we just do everything together constantly

But we've known each other for 30 years. I mean, we go back so far. The amazing, lovely Megan Hilty, who has always been a friend

But this is our first time ever really actually doing anything together. And then Michelle Williams, the amazing Michelle Williams

with that crazy voice of hers. And so I am in the midst of these three

extremely funny, powerful women, and I learned early on just get out of their way

And so that's what I do. I get out of the way. And now I kind of making my way back in the show But it honor and a pleasure and a privilege to just be able to be at the L Theater again

And actually, because our show is so funny, to be able, eight times a week

to make 1,500 people laugh eight times a week, especially in the world that it is now

It's a crazy world. For two hours, 25 minutes, you can forget everything

because we will make you forget everything because you can't help but forget everything

when you come see us, because you're going to be laughing your head, And I don't say that lightly because I've done a lot of comedies, and this is one of the funniest shows I've ever done

I've done many readings and many workshops of new shows, and I've never, in the first two, three songs of a reading, stopped a show

It's never, I've never seen anything like that. And we stopped the show at a reading

And we're like, oh, I think we're going to be all right. I think this is something

And then Chris Citelli, our amazing choreographer director, said, do you guys want to

do this? And we're like, yeah. Yes, we do. And the entire process has been extremely collaborative, which was so nice

We had crazy ideas. Gatelli had crazy ideas. Noel and Julia had crazy ideas

And none of them were like, no, we tried everything. And what you see on stage is a wonderful collaborative effort from absolutely everybody

So, yeah, it's pretty amazing. And I've been in a lot of shows, and I'm grateful for that

And the last time I ever had a feeling about a show that I'm doing was Spamelot

And where you knew right away, like your first preview out of town in Chicago that we did it

this is going to be something. This is going to be something. And it is something But the last time I had that feeling was with Spamelot was like oh wow this is something I talk about who you play and what you love about him What a fabulous character you play

What a great role. It is great. I mean, because we had the movie, we had the template from the movie

And Bruce Willis was amazing in that. And so we can't be them

So Marco was great and Getelli was great about just letting us, no, just do what you do

And we can make our own world here. with the same story, and that's what we did

Ernest, I will always say, the hardest person to play on stage

is someone who's a real person. That's a hard part. A funny person, that's not funny

And Ernest is not funny at all. He's beige. He is so beige

And apparently that's my niche now, because Trent Oliver, too. Trent Oliver was like the most boring person

But that is funny to me. And if you notice on stage, when you go see the show, every single person on that stage is sparkling

Sparkling, except Ernest. Because he's so beige. He is the one thing that does not stand out

Because of that, he does stand out. Because he's so like, what the hell is happening

And so, but he is also, he realized, he doesn't realize right away that he is a pawn

He doesn't realize that. And he's just a tool of revenge. on both sides. He doesn't really realize that until, you know, act two when it all goes crazy

So balancing all of these different aspects of, you know, the dynamics of him realizing what's happening

and it all comes to a head in act two To find that without being crazy And because I believe Ernest is kind of what the audience can look at as like

do you know what's going on? Because he doesn't. He just, the world is going crazy to him and he doesn't know what's happening

But it is fun to play, boring people. I love it. beige

Bege. And Ernest is beige. Ernest is a boring person. and which I think is hilarious

because when there's when there's boring people who do boring things that is

hilarious to me and I am able to find the way that it is funny

so but yeah so Ernest is one of my people ask me what is your favorite character

that you've ever played and it's like it's always the one I'm doing and I really do love Ernest

I feel so bad for him because he is just oh he's such an innocent victim of these two crazy women characters

It's funny when I walk down the street after coming out of a show that I go, I'll walk by your theater and the door is open

and people just come out with these smiles on their faces of saying, I want to go back and see you again

Yeah, there was something to be said about, people may not remember what you said

I'm probably paraphrasing, but you may not remember what you said. People may not remember what you did

but they will always remember the way you made them feel. And everyone coming out of our show feels amazing and feels great and feels uplifted

and feels satisfied and feels like, oh, what a relief, what a release

That's great. So, and I am so grateful that I have not heard from anyone that, well, I don't like it

Everyone loves the show and I'm so grateful to be part of it