Zoren: Santino Fontana has love for spontaneity and storytelling

Santino Fontana has some idea of what he’ll be singing when he arrives on The Princeton Festival stage for a solo cabaret show on Saturday evening. Some idea, but not an exact one. That’s because, as Fontana expressed in a recent telephone conversation, he likes the spontaneity of live theater and wants his show to exemplify it. Rather than preparing a set song list and the patter to go with it, Fontana has rehearsed about 30 songs, any of which he could choose to sing at any random juncture in...