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He has been nominated for Golden Globes and Emmy Awards and won MTV Movie Awards and People’s Choice Awards. Could a Tony Award be next for actor Will Ferrell?

Ferrell opens on Broadway this week playing the role he made famous on during the 2000 U.S. presidential elections on “Saturday Night Live” — President George W. Bush — in “You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush.”

For 90 minutes Ferrell swaggers around the stage as Bush, taking the audience through a condensed version of his life and eight years as president, referring to his successor President Barack Obama as “the Tiger Woods guy.”

A dancing secret service agent who doesn’t speak during the performance is played by Ferrell’s brother Patrick and there is a brief yet explosive appearance by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Ferrell, who has starred in movies such as “Talladega Nights” and “Elf,” got a standing ovation at Monday night’s performance of the show which officially opens on Broadway on Thursday and runs until March 15.