B'way Update: Groff as Bobby Darren in Just in Time

Tony winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along) will return to Broadway playing pop singer Bobby Darin in Just in Time, a new bio-musical employing Darin's songbook. The Circle in the Square Theater will be converted into an intimate nightclub of the 50s and 60s with a big band for a total immersive experience. Previews begin Match 28, 2025 for an April 23 opening. The book is by Tony winner Warren Leight (Side Man, Law and Order: CI) and Isaac Oliver (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel). Tony winner Alex Timbers (Moulin Rouge) directs and developed the show. Groff leads a cast of 16, TBA. In addition to his Tony for Merrily, Groff was nominated for Hamilton and Spring Awakening. His TV and film credits include Mindhunter, The Matrix Resurrections, Frozen, Glee, and Doctor Who.

“Bobby Darin worked across many genres of music, but he was most alive performing in intimate nightclubs,” says director Alex Timbers.  “And so, it was vital to Jonathan and myself that we stage Just In Time at Circle in the Square.  This is where we could build an environmental nightclub setting including a live, onstage big band that will allow the same sort of intimacy and electrifying audience connection that both Bobby and Jonathan are known for.”

Bobby Darin

“Bobby Darin was a supernova. He blazed his way through every corner of the entertainment industry, but his enormous talent, charisma, and pure genius were most on display when he was letting it rip in front of a crowd. This primal passionate love affair he had with the audience was the inspiration for our show's conceit,” says Groff, who is also serving as a producer on the project. “Alex Timber's distinctive ability to make going to the theater an unforgettable event and Bobby's signature musicality and explosive fleeting life make Broadway the perfect place to experience the story and essence of this once in a lifetime talent.”

Darin was an acclaimed singer, songwriter and actor. He performed jazz, pop, rock, folk and country. His hits included "Splish Splash," Dream Lover," "Beyond the Sea" and "Mack the Knife." He was nominated for an Oscar for Captain Newman, MD. Kevin Spacey, using his own singing voice, played him in the 2004 biopic Beyond the Sea.

2024-25 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar 
Fall 2024

Oct. 9--The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Oct. 10--Our Town (Barrymore)
Oct. 10--Deep History (Public)
Oct. 10--In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot (Playwrights Horizons) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Oct. 15--Vladimir (MTC/City Center Stage I)

Oct. 16--Hold On to Me Darling (Lortel)

Oct. 20--Sunset Boulevard (St. James)

Oct. 21--Drag The Musical (New World Stages)

Oct. 23--Left on Tenth (James Earl Jones)

Oct. 23--Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! (Soho Rep)

Oct. 24--Romeo and Juliet (Circle in the Square)

Oct. 27--We Live in Cairo (NYTW)

Oct. 28--Shit. Meet. Fan. (MCC Theater)

Oct. 29--Another Shot (Signature Theater Center)

Nov. 7--Walden (Second Stage/Kiser)

Nov. 8--Gatz (Elevator Repair Service/Public)

Nov. 10--We Are Your Robots (TFANA/Polonsky Shakespeare Center)

Nov. 11--What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical (Studio 54)

Nov. 12--Maybe Happy Ending (Belasco)

Nov. 14--Tammy Faye (Palace)

Nov. 14--King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)

Nov. 17--Elf the Musical (Marquis)

Nov. 19--Swept Away (Longacre)

Nov. 21--Death Becomes Her (Lunt-Fontanne)

Nov. 21--The Blood Quilt (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

Nov. 25--The Merchant of Venice (CSC/Arlekin Players) 

Nov. 26--The Dead, 1904 (IRT/American Irish Historical Society)

Babe (New Group/Signature Center)

This Is My Favorite Song (Playwrights Horizons)

Winter 2024-25

Dec. 4--Annie (Theater at Madison Square Garden) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Dec. 11--All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich (Hudson) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Dec. 12--Cult of Love (Second Stage/Hayes)

Dec. 16--Eureka Day (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman) 

Dec. 19--Gypsy (Majestic)

Jan. 20--The Antiquities (Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard Theater)

Jan. 23--English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)

Jan. 25--Henry IV (TFANA/Polonsky Theater Center)

Feb. 13--Redwood (Nederlander)

Feb. 20--Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

Curse of the Starving Class (New Group/Signature Center)

Dakar 2000 (MTC/City Center Stage I)

A Knock on the Roof (NYTW)

Sumo (Ma-Yi Theater/Public)

2024-25

My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)

Romeo and Juliet w.Tom Holland/Francesca Amewudah-Rivers (?)

Spring 2025

March 10--Ghosts (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

March 18--Vanya (Lucille Lortel)

March 19--Buena Vista Social Club (Schoenfeld)

March 19--We Had a World (MTC/City Center Stage II)

March 20--Operation Mincemeat (Golden)

March 23--Othello (Barrymore)

March 25--Old Friends (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman) (previews begins opening TBA)

March 30--The Swamp Dwellers (TFANA/Polonsky Shakespeare Center)

March--The Picture of Dorian Gray (a Shubert theater TBA)

March--Wine in the Wilderness (CSC)

Mid-March--Purpose (Hayes)

April 5--BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical (Broadhurst)

April 6--The Last Five Years (Hudson)

April 17--Bowl EP (Vineyard Theater/National Black Theater)

April 21--Floyd Collins (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)

April 22--Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Marquis)

April 23--Just in Time (Circle in the Square)

April 24--The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)

May 1--Tony Nominations announced

May 20--Goddess (Public Theater)

May--Bus Stop (CSC/NAATCO/Transport Group)

June 2--Theater World Awards (Theater TBA)

June 8--Tony Awards (Radio City Music Hall)

Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. (Public)

Glengarry Glen Ross

Good Night and Good Luck

Hold Me in the Water (Playwrights Horizons)

The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (New Group/Signature Center)

Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole (NYTW)

Lunar Eclipse (Second Stage/Kiser)

The Picture of Dorian Gray 

Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)

Smash

2025

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Real Women Have Curves

Sugar Daddy

Summer 2025

Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Delacorte)

2025-26

The Queen of Versailles

Fall 2025

Initiative (Public)

The Seat of Our Pants (Public)

Waiting for Godot

2026

Hello, I'm Dolly

Future--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; Pal Joey; Particle Fever; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Studio 54; Working Girl.

2024-25 Broadway Season Breakdown

New Plays

All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich

Cult of Love

Good Night and Good Luck

The Hills of California

Job 

Left on Tenth

MCNEAL

Oh, Mary!

Purpose

The Roommate

Stranger Things: The First Shadow

New Musicals

Boop! The Betty Boop Musical

Buena Vista Social Club

Death Becomes Her

Just in Time

Maybe Happy Ending

Old Friends

Operation Mincemeat

Redwood

Smash

Swept Away

Tammy Faye

What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical

Play Revivals

English

Eureka Day

Glengarry Glen Ross

Home

Othello

Our Town

Romeo and Juliet

Yellow Face

Musical Revivals

Elf the Musical

Floyd Collins

Gypsy

The Last Five Years

Once Upon a Mattress

The Pirates of Penzance

Sunset Boulevard

Solos/Specialties

The Picture of Dorian Gray