Get the latest gossip
‘Just in Time’ Review: Jonathan Groff Plays Bobby Darin in a Lackluster Bio-Jukebox on Broadway
This lackluster jukebox biographical musical never makes a case for Darin as a worthy subject of a Broadway show.
Born in 1936 in Harlem as a sickly child, he eventually became a musician, a singer-songwriter, and an actor, achieving fame in the late 1950s with hits like “Dream Lover” and covers of “Beyond the Sea” and “Mack the Knife.” Derek McLane’s art deco, Copacabana-inspired set brings the band onstage and features cafe tables on the floor (the production as a whole completely wastes and disregards the Circle in the Square theater’s thrust, functionally treating this as a proscenium stage). All the other characters lack depth, best symbolized by The Sirens (Christine Cornish, Julia Grondin, and Valeria Yamin), a trio of leggy backup dancers who are doomed to bounce behind Groff in perpetuity and execute a never-ending stream of quick changes.
Or read this on Variety