Twitter Watch: James Franco-'OF MICE AND MEN Table Read - It Begins!'

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On Twitter, James Franco had this to say @JamesFrancoTV

Of mice and men - table read - it begins!!!!!!

Of Mice and Men will star Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner James Franco, Chris O'Dowd, Leighton Meester and Tony Award winner Jim Norton, and will feature Ron Cephas Jones (The Motherfucker with the Hat), Alex Morf ("The Good Wife"),Joel Marsh Garland ("Orange Is The New Black"), James McMenamin ("The Good Wife"), Jim Ortlieb (Guys and Dolls) and Jim Parrack ("True Blood").

Performances begin Wednesday, March 19, 2014 and Of Mice and Men officially opens Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at the Longacre Theatre in a strictly limited engagement through July 27, 2014.

Of Mice and Men will feature scenic design by Tony Award winner Todd Rosenthal (August: Osage County, The Motherfucker with the Hat), costume design by Emmy Award winner Suttirat Larlarb (London Olympic Opening Ceremony, Frankenstein at RNT, 127 Hours) who is making her Broadway debut, lighting design by Japhy Weideman, (The Nance - Tony Award nominee, What's It All About?: Bacharach Reimagined at NYTW), with sound design by Rob Milburn & Michael Bodeen (No Man's Land/Waiting for Godot starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf).

Of Mice and Men, one of the greatest and most enduring American classics, has not been seen on Broadway in 40 years. Adapted from his own classic novel, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is an essential adventure, an inspirational portrait of the American spirit and a heartbreaking testament to the bonds of friendship.

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