Countdown to the Tony Awards: Christopher Sieber talks about his nomination for “Shrek: The Musical”

Christopher Sieber will compete for the Tony Award in the category of Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance as Lord Farquaad in Shrek: The Musical. The out actor had previously been nominated for his work in Spamalot.

Christopher talked with Broadway World about his nomination:

BWW: You had a crazy morning the day of the Tony Award announcements, did you?

Christopher Sieber: I was driving from my house in NJ on my way to the city. So, my agent called me at 8:40 AM and said you’ve been nominated for a Tony. And it’s raining, it’s cats and dogs so I had to pull over, because I needed to take a break, a couple deep breaths and then I pulled back into traffic, because that was all I needed was for the news report to be, you know the headline, Christopher SieberNominated for Tony, Dies in Firey Car Crash! I had to get in early, so I had no choice but to drive in! My car has bluetooth, it’s hands free, but everytime someone would call, it would hang up on the person that I was talking to all morning. The phone was burning up and hanging up! Did I hang up on you? I’m sorry if I did! Hah, but it was a beautiful morning, just beautiful.

BWW: Having been a part of this project for so long, it must of been wonderful to hear the news.

CS: Oh for sure, so wonderful! I’m just so happy that I’m sharing it with everyone, I love it. I’m happy that we are nominated for best musical, Sutton and I have been with it from the very start, when it was a just a little act one, ya know. So to have helped create this thing, and to see it be nominated for best musical means a lot.

BWW: You were there from the very first reading weren’t you?

CS: Yeah, from the very beginning, that’s the nice part of this nomination for me is that I’ve been with and have helped create it and Lord Farquad is part of me. There’s a lot of me in that and it’s particualy nice because I’m noticed for work that I actually did, certainly choices and lines. Which is what you love as an actor to create, to bring ideas to the table.

Good luck to Christopher!