OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#1OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/16/13 at 6:17pm
According to this Equity casting notice, OF MICE AND MEN directed by Anna Shapiro, is coming to Broadway on or about March 22, 2014.....
Anyone know any further details?
EPA Notice OF MICE AND MEN
Updated On: 10/16/13 at 06:17 PM
#2OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/16/13 at 6:21pmJames Franco announced on Colbert months back that he is playing George.
#2OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/16/13 at 7:09pmThis will be interesting! I vividly remember studying this in my high school freshman English class! The opening to each chapter paints a picture of the setting just like the descriptions at the beginning of each scene or act of a play. Interested to see how this develops.
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#3OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/17/13 at 3:51pmgood luck finding a theater.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#4OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/17/13 at 3:54pmI hope they sell stuffed bunnies at he theater.
#5OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/17/13 at 4:03pm
so the following shows apppear to be aiming for Spring 2014:
The Sunshine Boys
Allegiance
Of Mice & Men
The Bodyguard
Dames at Sea
On The Town
Killer Joe
All The Way
Hello, Dolly!
My Fair Lady
As of right now the only available theaters for the spring are:
The Marquis
The Palace
Circle In The Square
The Booth
The Cort
The Bodyguard has been rumored for some time to have The Marquis. Either revival of Dolly or My Fair Lady will take The Palace. Of Mice & Men could take The Cort. Could Dames at Sea work in The Booth?? What show would want the Circle??
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
Updated On: 10/17/13 at 04:03 PM
#6OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/17/13 at 4:10pm
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the Longacre, Golden, Broadway, and Lyceum were all available in March.
And you can add The Realistic Joneses to the list of Spring 2014 shows.
#8OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/17/13 at 4:34pmI think that would be spectacular casting.
#9OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/17/13 at 5:39pmI love the idea of O'Dowd, more than I love Franco (and I think Franco would be very likely to make a great George.)
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#10OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/17/13 at 6:05pm
With some real creative blocking, this could work at Circle....maybe.
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#11OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/17/13 at 6:26pmFor some reason, I'm hoping they cast Jeremy Jordan as Curly.
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#13OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/17/13 at 7:53pmACL -- I can tell you with absolute certainty that THE BODYGUARD will happen next season. Marquis is not booked.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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#14OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/17/13 at 11:05pmyes, but there's also a rumor going around that after the Il Divo/Heather Headley concert that the owners of the Marquis will close it down for 6-9 months to renovate. If that's the case, we won't see The Bodyguard until Fall 2014.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#15OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/18/13 at 12:29amAnd no way "My Fair Lady" or "Hello, Dolly!" make it in this season. Neither has a cast yet. I agree with Frogs' assessment of additional houses that may be available. I wish them no harm, but one also can't be certain about the Kerr or the Atkinson.
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#16OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/18/13 at 1:46pmI'm super stoked for James Franco's Broadway debut. I think he will do a smashing job. He has really come a long way.
#17OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/18/13 at 2:09pmChris O'Dowd is being reported as the likely choice for Lennie, and he would be my reason for seeing it. Franco doesn't excite me.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 10/18/13 at 02:09 PM
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#18OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/18/13 at 8:23pmYeah, what's available now and what's available after January is a totally different thing.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#19OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/18/13 at 8:56pmIs this the re-worked gay version?
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#19OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/18/13 at 8:56pm
Double post.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Updated On: 10/18/13 at 08:56 PM
CYAPollyanna
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#21OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/22/13 at 4:17pmDoesn't it seem likely this will take the Cort? With No Man's land/Godot closing in early March and this show projected previews starting in late March?
#22OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 10/23/13 at 3:45am
Claire Booth (not Claire Booth Luce) meets an untimely end at the hands of Broderick Crawford in the original cast production of "Of Mice and Men" in 1937.
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broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#23OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 11/26/13 at 12:05am
Confirmed. Taking the Longacre.
James Franco and Chris O'Dowd Will Make Broadway Debuts in Revival of Of Mice and Men
Updated On: 11/26/13 at 12:05 AM
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#24OF MICE AND MEN Bwy Mar '14?
Posted: 11/26/13 at 12:44amI just can't get too excited for this, but I love her direction, so I'll have to check it out.
