Just in Time, the only musical of the 2024–2025 Broadway season to have recouped its capitalization, will change its Bobby Darin in October: Jeremy Jordan plays his final performance at Circle in the Square Theatre on Sunday, October 18, and Matthew Morrison returns for a strictly limited three-week encore engagement from Tuesday, October 20.
Carrie St. Louis leaves on the same Sunday, ending her run as Sandra Dee. Whitney Leavitt takes over the role from Tuesday, December 1; casting for the weeks in between has not been announced.
The handover arrives with the production in a stronger commercial position than most of its class. Having begun previews on March 31, 2025 and opened on April 26, 2025, it added Thursday matinees this fall and now has tickets on sale through Sunday, February 7, 2027, a booking horizon that reaches almost two years past its first preview.
Morrison, a Screen Actors Guild Award winner and a nominee for the Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe Awards, earned his Tony nomination for The Light in the Piazza, having made his Broadway debut in Footloose and broken through as Link Larkin in Hairspray. His stage work also includes the Lincoln Center Theater revival of South Pacific and J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland, while television audiences know him best as Mr. Schuester, the glee club director in Fox's Glee. His next screen role, in The Monster She Married, premieres on Lifetime on October 10.
Developed and directed by Alex Timbers, the musical traces Darin's rise from teen idol to international star over a life he knew would be short, and stages it as a night in an intimate supper club, with a live band on stage playing the hits that made his name, among them Beyond the Sea, Mack the Knife, Splish Splash and Dream Lover.
The book is by Warren Leight and Isaac Oliver, from an original concept by Ted Chapin, with music supervision and arrangements by Andrew Resnick, orchestrations by Resnick and Michael Thurber, and choreography by Shannon Lewis. Sets are by Derek McLane, costumes by Catherine Zuber, lighting by Justin Townsend and sound by Peter Hylenski. The producers are Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens and John Frost.
The current company also includes Ariana Madix, Tony Award winner Debbie Gravitte, Joe Barbara, Emily Bergl, Lance Roberts, Caesar Samayoa, Christine Cornish, Julia Grondin, Valeria Yamin, Jaime Foord, Tari Kelly, Matt Magnusson, Jeffrey Schecter and Tristen Buettel.
Entertainment Weekly called the show "an utterly electrifying experience," and the New York Post described it as "a wallop of joy."
Performances run Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7pm and Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, with matinees on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2pm, Thursdays at 1pm and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets start at $69, with Night Club "Floor Seating" and "Banquette Seating" close to the performers, and are sold at the Circle in the Square box office, 235 West 50th Street, and through the production's official website.
