The first people to cycle on the track included Alex Bird, aged nine, who suggested the name ofthe new youth group, and 11-year-old Lakee Sivaraya, who won the written competition: 'Why I should be the first person to cycle the circuit'.
Franco, whose film credits include Milk and Pineapple Express, was expected to make his Broadway debut two years ago, in 2011, alongside Nicole Kidman in Tennessee Williams' Sweet BirdofYouth, but the production was abandoned.
Also announced for the Old Vic's 2013 season is Lindsay Posner directing Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy and Kim Cattrall starring in Tennessee Williams's Sweet BirdofYouth, directed by Marianne Elliott.