Santino Fontana To Perform On Final Day Of Princeton Festival 2024

PRINCETON, NJ — Tony Award-winning actor and television star Santino Fontana will be taking over the Princeton Festival stage on June 22, 7 p.m. to perform his cabaret.

Fontana will sing audience-selected Broadway tunes, popular melodies, and jazz standards, accompanied by pianist Cody Owen Stine.

An Evening with Santino Fontana is the final performance of the 16-day performing arts festival which opened on June 7.

Fontana received the Tony Award, two Drama Desks, an Outer Critics Circle, a Lortel, an Obie, and the Clarence Derwent Award for his work in both plays and musicals.

He was recently seen on Broadway in his virtuosic Tony-winning turn as “Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels” in Tootsie.

Fontana is widely known for lending his voice to the villainous ‘Prince Hans’ in Disney’s Academy Award-winning animated feature, Frozen.

On TV, Santino was recently seen on the Emmy-winning “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”

He starred on CW’s comedy “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” as ‘Greg’ and NBC’s drama “Shades of Blue,” opposite Jennifer Lopez.

A critically acclaimed narrator of dozens of audiobooks, he was the original voice of ‘Joe’ in Caroline Kepnes’s cult hit You and all its sequels.

Cody Owen Stine is a New York City-based songwriter, music director, and multi-instrumentalist. He is currently the music director of the 9-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Hadestown. Other Broadway credits: Moulin Rouge, Spongebob Squarepants, Bandstand, and Finding Neverland. Cast Albums: Miss You Like Hell, The Robber Bridegroom, The Jonathan Larson Project, and The Liz Swados Project. Off B-way: Murder Ballad and Eager To Lose.

2024 Princeton Festival tickets are available now, and range in price from $10 - $135. For dates, times, program information, and tickets, visit princetonsymphony.org/festival.

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