<p><br /> The Mummy star Brendan Fraser is treading the boards in New York.<br /> </p><p><br /> He is starring alongside Denis O'Hare in the Broadway production of Elling, a play that began in the tiny Bush theatre in London before hitting the West End and eventually crossing the pond.<br /> </p><p><br /> Fraser plays a character described as "an orangutan obsessed with food and sex".<br /> </p><p><br /> "I don't know why they picked me for the gig", he joked at the launch event.<br /> </p><p><br /> Elling is showing now at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway.<br /> </p>
