{"id":256,"date":"2014-01-06T06:37:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T14:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=256"},"modified":"2014-04-05T19:18:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T11:18:48","slug":"tony-winner-jim-norton-joins-cast-of-broadways-of-mice-and-men-with-james-franco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/06\/tony-winner-jim-norton-joins-cast-of-broadways-of-mice-and-men-with-james-franco\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony winner Jim Norton joins cast of Broadway&#8217;s &#8216;Of Mice and Men&#8217; with James Franco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014Jim Norton will join James Franco and Chris O\u2019Dowd in the Broadway revival of \u201cOf Mice and Men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Producers said Monday that Norton, whose recent credits include \u201cThe Mystery of Edwin Drood\u201d and a Tony Award-winning turn in \u201cThe Seafarer\u201d will play aging ranch handyman Candy.<\/p>\n<p>The story by John Steinbeck centres on big-dreaming George, played by Franco, and the mentally challenged Lennie, portrayed by O\u2019Dowd. Former \u201cGossip Girl\u201d star Leighton Meester will play a beautiful temptress.<\/p>\n<p>The play, which starts performances March 19 at the Longacre Theatre, has not been seen on Broadway in 40 years. Tony Award-winner Anna D. Shapiro will direct.<\/p>\n<p>Norton is currently performing in Conor McPherson\u2019s \u201cThe Night Alive\u201d at the Atlantic Theatre Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014Jim Norton will join James Franco and Chris O\u2019Dowd in the Broadway revival of \u201cOf Mice and Men.\u201d Producers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-art-and-culture","mauthors-mark-kennedy","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}