Get a First Look at Just In Time on Broadway, Starring Jonathan Groff

With Groff starring as Darin, the musical also features Erika Henningsen (Mean Girls), Tony winner Michele Pawk (Wicked), Joe Barbara (A Bronx Tale The Musical), Drama Desk nominee Emily Bergl (Good Night, Oscar), Gracie Lawrence (The Sex Lives of College Girls), Lance Roberts (The Music Man), Caesar Samayoa (Come From Away), Christine Cornish (Kiss Me, Kate), Julia Grondin (Funny Girl), Valeria Yamin (Moulin Rouge!), John Treacy Egan (My Fair Lady), Tari Kelly (Mr. Saturday Night), Matt Magnusson (A Wonderful World), Khori Michelle Petinaud (Lempicka), and Larkin Reilly (Bad Cinderella).

Tony winner Alex Timbers is at the helm of the immersive staging. The show tracks Darin's life story and features Tony winner Jonathan Groff performing his greatest hits, including "Beyond the Sea," "Splish Splash," and "Mack the Knife."

Groff is charming and gorgeous in the show and Gracie Lawrence is a great new find with a powerhouse voice

R2 is Groff's publicist . I am SO tired of Miss Groff . Are there no other gay males in the acting world ?

It's a great show. It's a cross between "an immersive theater experience" and a "jukebox musical". He doesn't try to look like Darin or fully imitate his singing style. Groff is always on stage and keeps the energy going. It covers Darrin's life but avoids the perils of biopic mode which made Spacey's dreary movie so unpleasant to watch.

The first half is stronger than the second, partly because it has a more going on in the story. There isn't much to the Sandra Dee storyline, but given that she wasn't much of an actress and they didn't have much of a marriage, there isn't much to work with there.

It's difficult to believe that Groff is now 40, and older than Darrin was when he died.

Bitch stole my act

R3 - no one cares if you're tired of him. We're not.

Isn’t Groff gay? Bobby Darin was straight.

R7 yes and incredibly his gayness has not rendered him incapable of hitting the same notes as a straight man. A thing unheard of in Broadway history

"He doesn't try to look like Darin or fully imitate his singing style..."

You go, girl.

for potential ticket buyers who are familiar with Darin, casting Groff is a non starter.

I’m still upset there won’t be any more “Mindhunter.”

Please knife this mack of a show

"for potential ticket buyers who are familiar with Darin..."

And exactly how many of those people are there? It's not like Darin was Elvis with thousands and thousands of screaming fans. I doubt it's enough to sustain this production for very long. It's not like Bobby Darin is a household name.

And I'd guess a good percentage of Darin's fans are wheel-chair bound or in nursing homes and or/not willing to part with $200-300 for a single ticket.

My friend loved it. Just got tickets.

Who plays Connie Francis and Sandra Dee?

R13: There were plenty of people old enough to remember Darin and they seemed to enjoy it. What is more remarkable is that it attracted younger people who wouldn't remember him.

Sure, Jan.

I like Groff as a person. I find him incredibly boring as an actor

He’s even more boring in bed.

[Quote] Ask me how I know

You fantasize about it?

R20 = Groff.

Spill every gruesome yet boring detail, R19.

R19 = Zachary Quinto

What's his hole like, R19?

Not “Italian clean.”

Sometimes good theater just involves an extroverted person singing and pretending to be somebody else.

That’s great if you’re in the 10th grade at La Guardia HS.

In the real world, not so much.

He gave me a big hug once. Love him.

how many pieces in the orchestra?

I'd love to hear the band if the arrangements are authentic to the era

Will they be interpolating "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee"?

[quote]R27 He gave me a big hug once. Love him.

This is assault.

I get Bobby Darin mixed up with someone else. I think Johnnie Ray.

R19 that’s still hot.

Jonathan Groff is a very "earnest" performer.

I have always found him to be lovely.

R31 I get Jonathan Groff mixed up with Kaye Ballard.

R15 Gracie Lawrence plays Connie. She was on Kelly Clarkson singing Who's Sorry Now the other day.

R31=Dorothy Kilgallen

I saw a reading. Groff has none of Darin’s sex or swagger.

We are taking a group of clients to see it in June, if it's still running of course.

The set looks like it's trying to compensate for something.

R31: Johnnie Ray had a different style and predated Darin by quite a number of years.

Groff doing the Neil Sedaka story .... that can't be too far in the future?

Now that’s a role that fits! If they could see me now, holy cow!

[quote]It's difficult to believe that Groff is now 40, and older than Darrin was when he died.

Bobby Darin looked older than he actually was. He looked 40 when he was in his 20s.

[quote]Who plays Connie Francis and Sandra Dee?

Harvey Fierstein and Bruce Vilanch.

I thought the show was a delight. Groff is as charming as it gets. And he sure is easy on the eyes.

R46 shops at Joanne’s

Michaels, cunt.

CBS Sunday Morning profile.

R39 It's been selling out. I think you'll be seeing the show in June. Groff is popular and it's a small venue so easier to sell out which looks good and gets people excited to see a "hot" show.

This reminds me when that Kevin Spacey Darin biopic came out. Roger Elbert declared in his review that Spacey is a better singer than Darin. One of the biggest laughs I’ve ever had listening to a movie critic.

Seriously, Bobby Darin was a big success on the night club circuit after a few hit records, but biopics? Broadway shows?

It’s a dramatic story given his tumultuous relationships and early death. I don’t know why Spacey was so into playing the character though, which is probably the only reason that film got greenlit — he was way too old for it.

Early death is the ONLY reason Bobby Darin gets any attention in 2025.

Should've been me!

Today on "CBS News Sunday Morning," Darin's son said he never recovered from learning at 36 that his sister was actually his mother. And mother was his grandmother.

Bobby Darin on Judy Garland Show December 29, 1963

Disagree, R53. Bobby Darin was a consummate artist. Hit songs, Oscar-nominated actor.

What Oscar nomination?

[quote] In 1963, Darin was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a shell-shocked soldier in Captain Newman, M.D.

[quote] In 1962, Darin won the Golden Globe Award for "New Star of the Year – Actor" for his role in Come September. The following year he was nominated for a Best Actor Golden Globe for Pressure Point.

He was nominated for a shitty Paul Newman—er, Gregory Peck film. Melvyn Douglas won for the other Newman film.

It was 1964.

Bobby Darin • This Is Your Life (1959) part 1 of 3

Bobby Darin • This Is Your Life (1959) part 2 of 3

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R55 well he didn’t have much time to recover from it. I’m not sure how his son would know that though since he was just a kid at the time?

Although less impressed with the musical itself, Jesse Green, the Times’s theater critic, found Jonathan Groff “sensational” in his portrayal of Bobby Darin. “I have to admit he’s giving one of Broadway’s best performances.”

True, 65. So much “information” from so many children of celebrities who weren’t there or way to young to have understood what was happening with their famous parents. They read about it like the rest of us.

His "sister" was his mother and his "mother" was his Grandmother!

Sister! Mother! Sister!

It was too tough for little Bobby…