Ian McKellen was injured on Monday while performing in 'Player Kings' at the Noël Coward Theatre in London.
It was not immediately clear what injuries, if any, McKellen sustained in the fall. However, the theater was evacuated and the production was canceled for the evening.
ET spoke to Veronika Muzika, who was an audience member during the incident. Muzika said she at first thought McKellen's accident was part of the play. "Just witnessed Ian Mckellan severely injure himself after falling off stage at Noel Coward Theatre. Sir Ian could be heard screaming in pain as ushers rushed to his aid," he wrote."Show cancelled as he is treated by ambulance crews. Wish him all the best.""I was in the front row.
"He was shouting, 'Help me! Help me!' And the lights all went on and the curtain was drawn and within another five, ten seconds the ushers came over, members of the cast were looking to see if he was OK," Johnson recalled."As time went on, within a minute really, the whole of the auditorium was evacuated, so that Sir Ian could be treated with a bit of privacy."
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