Hello, new Santa: 'Seinfeld' alum dons red suit in 'Elf'
NEW YORK " A visit backstage at "Elf" finds Santa in a festive mood " he's decorating a Christmas tree. To be more specific, Wayne Knight, who has donned the red suit in the Broadway musical, is hanging every ornament he can find to hide the plastic tree's strange hue. "It's a salmon-colored tree so I'm trying to do whatever I can to obfuscate the tree itself," says the former "Seinfeld" mailman Newman. "We don't kno…