The life of teen idol Bobby Darin

The life of teen idol Bobby Darin

The singer-songwriter - subject of the new Broadway musical "Just in Time" - was renowned for such pop hits as "Splish Splash," "Mack the Knife," and "Dream Lover." But his life was unsettled when he learned, at age 32, the startling truth about the identity of his mother.

‘Just in Time’ review: Jonathan Groff parties like it’s 1965 in stellar Bobby Darin musical

That a musical about the too-short life of Bobby Darin, the 1950s and ‘60s crooner who notched a string of hits before dying young at 37, would turn out to be one of the most wondrous of the season was not on my Broadway bingo card.

Just in Time review – Bobby Darin musical is light on detail but big on charm

Circle in the Square Theatre, New YorkJonathan Groff uses his considerable charisma to embody the late singer with pizzazz in a rousing yet incomplete Broadway showIt is more than likely that Jonathan Groff, the star of the new Broadway show Just in Time, has more name recognition in today’s New York than Bobby Darin, the midcentury singer whom he plays in this jukebox bio-musical, of sorts. Darin’s relative lack of contemporary reputation compa…

‘Just In Time’ Broadway Review: Jonathan Groff Plays Bobby Darin – And Two Stars Ignite

Just In Time, the Bobby Darin jukebox musical starring Jonathan Groff opening tonight at a wonderfully dressed Circle in the Square on Broadway, does some serious and genuine starmaking, twice over in fact. Darin, the once hugely popular but now barely remembered nightclub singer and Top 40 hitmaker is returned to a spot in our cultural memory, and Groff, the Tony-winning star of last season’s Merrily We Roll Along and for years now one of the s…

‘Just in Time’ Review: Jonathan Groff Plays Bobby Darin in a Lackluster Bio-Jukebox on Broadway

It might be time to call it quits on biographical jukebox musicals. “Jersey Boys” ignited a trend, but its many spawn have been mostly ill-conceived. Recently we’ve had “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,” “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations,” “The Cher Show,” “MJ,” “Tina,” “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical,” and this season’s short-lived “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical.” To this less-than-honorable …