A Broadway Fairytale! CINDERELLA's Santino Fontana Marries Castmate Jessica Hershberg

A true love story transpired on the Broadway Theatre stage.

Star of the recent CINDERELLA revival, Santino Fontana married his former CINDERELLA castmate Jessica Hershberg last month. Hershberg appeared primarily in the ensemble as well as going on as Ella's alternate and performing the role multiple times a week.

This weekend, Fontana posted a wedding photo to Instagram with the caption, "Honored & grateful."

Jessica Fontana: Broadway: Cinderella (Ella), Baby It's You. National: Little House on the Prairie (Mary Ingalls). Off-Broadway/Regional: Pipe Dream (Encores!, Cast Recording), Love and Real Estate (59E59th), Idaho! (NYMF), It Shoulda Been You, directed by David Hyde Pierce (George Street), Sense and Sensibility (Denver Theatre Center), James and the Giant Peach (Goodspeed), Paper Mill, MUNY, PCLO, Arden Theatre. BFA University of Michigan.

Santino Fontana is an American stage actor, director, and composer. In 2005, as a member of the Essentials, Fontana co-wrote the musical comedy Perfect Harmony, and originated the role of Philip Fellowes V. In 2006 he starred as Matt in the Off-Broadway revival of The Fantasticks. His Broadway debut was Sunday in the Park with George in 2007. Fontana originated the role of Tony in the Broadway production of Billy Elliot from October 1, 2008 to July 4, 2009. He was awarded the 2010 Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his work in Brighton Beach Memoirs. He starred as Prince Topher in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella on Broadway, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical.

Recently, he provided the voice of Prince Hans in Frozen. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program, class of 2004.

In 2015, Fontana became the first guest artist to perform three times in the space of one year with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Source: The New York Times

Photo credit: Santino Fontana/Instagram