Daniella Castoria, who is currently playing Anita in Surflight’s “West Side Story,” seems locked into the 1957 musical in 2025.

GOING PLACES: Daniella Castoria, who honed her chops at Southern, will reprise Anita before heading out west.(Supplied Photo)
Before she started rehearsal at Surflight she had played Anita at the Gulf Coast Symphony in Fort Myers, Fla. In October she will be playing the part of Rosalia, one of the Shark’s girls, for the Los Angeles Opera.
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