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Broadway's West Side Story postpones opening night after star's knee injury

by Jessica Derschowitz

The new Broadway revival of West Side Story is pushing its opening night back by two weeks after leading man Isaac Powell suffered an onstage knee injury. Producer Scott Rudin told Deadline on Monday that the show will now open Feb. 20 instead of Feb. 6, "to give Isaac the chance to recover from an injury to his knee, so that he can have the same duration of preview playing period we've always had scheduled." "Luckil…

SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 10:10am on December 24, 2019