“I went into this long list of reasons to be careful because it’s a really great part.

“I’ve been both really lucky and really unlucky,” he says.

“I’ve been in shows that ran a week, shows where I’ve gotten injured.

Tootsie(on Broadway)Santino Fontana as Dorothy Michaels

Credit: Robert Trachtenberg

I’ve had great and terrible experiences.

But I do count myself lucky.”

ClockingTootsieas his ninth Broadway show, Fontana opts for the positive read of his adventure chasing the stage.

Tootsie(on Broadway)Santino Fontana as Dorothy Michaels

Robert Trachtenberg

“I’m willing to try anything.

It was a key point early on in hisTootsiejourney that Fontana was eager to do his homework.

No one’s going to talk to me about the pay discrepancy because I’m a woman.

This has changed me.”

There’s been a change at home, too.