Meet Isaac Cole Powell, West Side Story‘s new Tony.
Isaac wears Sandro jacket, Officine Générale t-shirt, Sandro jeans and his own jewelry. Photograph by Alex Lockett, styled by Lizzy Wholley for W Magazine., that he stars in the musical as Tony. When he was about 12 years old, and developed an interest in community theater, the first show he ever auditioned for wasWest Side Story
The charming 25-year-old is stealthily built like a prize-fighter but bears a boyish grin. He grew up in North Carolina, surrounded by nature and manicured gardens. Before he ever had the idea to become an actor, he could often be caught picking flowers.
The revival of Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, and Leonard Bernstein’s 1957 musical—and the creative team behind it—has not debuted without receiving some criticism. The story about a pair of star-crossed lovers—one a white American and the other a Puerto Rican immigrant—has beenfor its “cartoonish stereotypes of macho teenage gangsters and hysterical lovers.
When Powell signed on as Tony, he wasn’t exactly sure how the creative team behind the musical was planning to historically situate the classic story in a new era, but he knew they were trying to modernize it. “I felt, the way Ivo was coaching me through auditions, that they were after a more contemporary feel to these characters.
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