Tootsie Tickets

Santino Fontana is a Tony Award winner for his performance in Tootsie. Perhaps best known to national audiences for providing the voice to the villainous Prince Hans in Disney’s Academy Award-winning animated feature, Frozen. Fontana was also seen in Universal Studio’s Sisters, starring opposite Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. On television he’s starred on The CW’s critically acclaimed musical comedy series, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, as Greg. Simultaneously, Santino played David Saperstein, opposite Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta, in NBC’s drama series, Shades of Blue. On stage, Santino recently starred in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and 1776, as part of the New York City Center’s Encores! series, for which he received rave reviews. Santino’s portrayal of Moss Hart in Lincoln Center’s production of Act One, which was filmed for PBS, also received critical praise. In 2013, Santino received a Tony Award nomination for his leading role as Prince Charming in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, and in 2012, he won Obie and Lucille Lortel awards for his acclaimed performance in Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet. Santino’s other theatre credits include The Importance of Being Earnest (Clarence Derwent Award), A View From the Bridge, Hello, Dolly!, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drama Desk Award), Billy Elliot, Zorba, and Sunday in the Park with George.

Broadway: The Cottage, POTUS, Tootsie (TONY Nomination), Spongebob Squarepants, Wicked (Elphaba) and Spring Awakening (original Broadway cast). NYCC Encores!: Oliver, Mack & Mabel and Titanic. Lilli plays Doc on Apple TV’s Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, and voices Velvette on Prime’s Hazbin Hotel. Coming up she can be seen starring in the new feature film Sheepdog and alongside Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti in Jesse Eisenberg’s newest film. A proud LAG and Vassar alum, and most gratefully, Bodie and Desi’s mom.

Sarah Stiles has been seen on Broadway as Jessica in Hand to God (Tony nomination), Muriel in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Kate/Lucy in Avenue Q, The 25^thAnnual Putnam Country Spelling Bee. Sarah also appeared as Jessica in MCC’s production of Hand to God, for which she received a Lucille Lortel nomination for her performance. Additionally, she played Annelle in Judith Ivey’s production of Steel Magnolias at the Alliance Theatre. Shakespeare in the Park: Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods. Off-Broadway/original cast recordings: Joanne in Vanities (Second Stage), Nazirah in The Road to Qatar (York Theatre). She also toured in the first national companies of Spelling Bee and Tommy Tune’s Dr. Doolittle. Sarah is the voice of Spider in the recording of Pasek and Pauls’ James and the Giant Peach. She is also the lead vocalist in Gary Lucas’s Fleischerei project, which features music from Max Fleischer’s Betty Boop and Popeye cartoons. 

Michael McGrath made his Broadway debut in the 1992 production of My Favorite Year. A 2005 Tony nominee for Spamalot, he has appeared on Broadway in My Favorite Year, The Goodbye Girl, Swinging on a Star, Little Me, Wonderful Town, Is He Dead?, Memphis, Born Yesterday and the 2012 Gershwin musical Nice Work if You Can Get It.

John Behlmann most recently played Dolly Parton’s husband Carl Dean in the pre-Broadway run of the new musical Dolly. On Broadway he last appeared as Jerry in the musical of Smash. Before that he received a Grammy nomination starring as conman Gordy Jackson in the Tony-nominated Broadway musical comedy Shucked. John also got an Outer Critics Nomination for creating the role of dim-witted beefcake Max in the Tony-winning musical Tootsie. He was in the Broadway premiere of Joshua Harmon’s play Significant Other, starred as Richard Hannay in the New York production of The 39 Steps, and made his Broadway debut in the Tony-winning play revival of Journey’s End. On camera, he’s been in the movies of celebrated directors like Martin Scorsese, Sam Mendes, and Greg Mottola. His last television appearances were on Elsbeth, And Just Like That, and season 2 of HBO’s The Gilded Age. He also recurred as Agent Adams in Riverdale, as Ann Dowd’s bumbling FBI partner in Good Behavior, and has guest-starred on many other shows. He’s appeared in off-Broadway plays and musicals for many of New York’s most respected theater companies; and been a voice actor in several global video game franchises, including 15+ years in World of Warcraft. He’s a hobbyist photographer, former trapeze artist, and lives in New York with his wife and two young children. After participating in much of the show’s development, John is excited to return to East Egg and The Great Gatsby. 

Broadway: Tootsie (Tony Nomination), Cyrano de Bergerac. Off-Broadway and select regional: Assassins (CSC), Tumacho (Clubbed Thumb), The Odyssey (Public/Delacorte), The Taming of the Shrew (TFANA), Fiasco Theater’s Into the Woods (Lortel nomination), Cymbeline, Two Gentlemen of Verona (St. Clair Bayfield Award), Measure for Measure, The Imaginary Invalid, Twelfth Night. Television: The Gilded Age, Lincoln Rhyme, Elementary, The Good Wife, The Good Cop, The Knick. MFA Brown/Trinity, Fiasco Theater core company.

Miss Halston is one of New York's busiest actresses and was the recipient of the 2021 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for her advocacy on behalf of The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. Her Broadway credits are numerous, including Tootsie, Hairspray, Gypsy, Anything Goes, and The Twentieth Century. She received the Richard Seff Award for her acclaimed performance in You Can't Take it with You and has garnered four Drama Desk nominations for her Broadway and off-Broadway work.  Miss Halston was a founding member of Charles Busch's legendary theatre company and co-starred with Mr. Busch in many productions including The Divine Sister, Red Scare on Sunset, and The Lady in Question.  They starred together in the independent feature film, The Sixth Reel. In addition, Miss Halston recently completed the independent feature films, Intermedium and Simchas and Sorrows and Chosen Family with Heather Graham. Television credits include a recurring role on the latest Gossip Girl, guest roles on The Good Fight, Almost Family and Divorce. In addition, she has reprised her role of the popular character, Bitsy Von Muffling on the Sex and The City reboot, And Just Like That on MAX. Miss Halston's web series, Virtual Halston was a pandemic hit with over 40 YOUTUBE episodes. 

NYTW: Bach At Leipzig. Theatre includes: Tootsie and The Royal Family (Outer Critics Circle Nominations),The Iceman Cometh, Present Laughter, You Can’t Take It With You, Holiday (Tony and Drama Desk Nominations),The Dazzle (OBIE and Lucille Lortel Awards). Recent Television: The Americans, Boardwalk Empire, The Knick, Hell On Wheels, YOU, The Blacklist.

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Ellis first gained attention when he created and directed off-Broadway's And the World Goes 'Round in 1991 and then became Associate Artistic Director of The Roundabout Theatre Company in 1998.

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