West Side Story Cast Announced

West Side Story Cast Announced
Monday, December 14, 2020

JCC’s production of West Side Story this fall will feature JCC students and alumni as well as community members.

Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. November 7-9 and 14-16 and at 2 p.m. on November 10 and 17. Tickets can be obtained by calling JCC’s box office, 716.338.1187.

Cast members include JCC students and alumni Skyler Schapp, Austin Schapp, Andrew Delcamp, Titus Miller, Dylan Sorenson, Caleb Roller, Omar Athinson, Gabe Grey, Hayate Ishida, Joseph Scordo, Mike Giambelluca, Victor Fernandez, Ben Smith Daman Holland, Robert Rasey, Adam Owens, Haley Pierce, Grace Anderson, Maddy Dorman, Haley Pierce, Anna Rodionova, Kate Michalski, Marisa Skinner, Kayla Walker, Raelyn Robinson, Veronica Benini, and Kristina Nesterova.

Other cast members include Brandon Milanowski, Max Hagel, Will Allen, Jacob Sears, Isaac Sinatra, Rachel Eckstrom, Claire Pumford, McKenzie Grice, Rita Svetanics, Mia Gullo, Holly Isaacson, Steve Wendell, and Jim Foley.

Julie Costantini will direct JCC’s production, based on a book by Arthur Laurents and featuring music by Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein.

West Side Story, inspired by William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, is set in the Upper West Side of New York City in the mid-1950s. The musical focuses on the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, teenage street gangs.