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Atlantic Records will release Just In Time (Original Broadway Cast Recording), the official companion to the Broadway production starring Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff as the legendary Bobby Darin. The album arrives Friday, August 15th on all digital platforms, with physical formats following on Friday, October 24th. To celebrate the announcement, two show-stopping fan favorites — “Splish Splash” and “This Could Be the Start of Something Big / Just In Time”— are available everywhere now. Listen here! The album was produced by Tom Kirdahy, two-time Grammy winner Bill Sherman, Andrew Resnick, and Alex Timbers; co-produced, recorded, and mixed by five-time Grammy winner Derik Lee, with Robert Ahrens serving as executive producer. Performed by Groff and the original Broadway cast,...

Tony Award Nominee and six-time Emmy Award winner Jean Smart will extend her run in Call Me Izzy on Broadway, now through August 24. Smart returns to the play on Tuesday, July 22, following a brief leave of absence due to a knee injury. Two-time Tony Award nominee Johanna Day will continue to play the role of Izzy through Sunday, July 20. The limited engagement is now playing for six more weeks at Studio 54 through August 24, 2025. “It has been the honor of a lifetime to work with the legendary Jean Smart,” says producers Robert Ahrens, Ben Holtzman, Sammy Lopez, and Fiona Howe Rudin. “Her determination to return to the stage following her knee injury, and to now...

Jean Smart will return to her acclaimed performance in Broadway’s Call Me Izzy on on Tuesday, July 22, following a two-week leave of absence due to a knee injury. Producers also announced that the solo play will extend by a week to August 24.

Smart’s understudy, the double-Tony nominee Johanna Day, will continue to play the role of Izzy through Sunday, July 20.

“It has been the honor of a lifetime to work with the legendary Jean Smart,” say producers Robert Ahrens, Ben Holtzman, Sammy Lopez, and Fiona Howe Rudin in a statement. “Her determination to return to the stage following her knee injury, and to now extend, is not only a testament to her professionalism and dedication, but is also an inspiration, as she ensures the story of the brave and resilient Izzy, and the many stories and humans she represents, continues to be told.”

The play, in which Smart...

Chess, the first-ever Broadway revival of the Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & Tim Rice musical which will star Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher, will begin previews at the Imperial Theatre on Wednesday, October 15, with an opening date of Sunday, November 16, producers announced today.

The production, previously announced, will feature a new book by Emmy winner Danny Strong (Dopesick) in place of Rice’s original (the musical is based on Rice’s original idea). Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) is on board to direct.

The fall revival will mark Michele’s return to Broadway following her acclaimed 2022-23 run in Funny Girl. Tveit is a 2021 Tony winner for his performance in Moulin Rouge!, and Christopher last appeared on Broadway in the 2023 revival of Sweeney Todd.

Additional casting and creative team will be announced shortly.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday, June 26, a day after presale tickets are...

Filmmaker and star of stage and screen Graham Phillips will join the cast as Seymour, reuniting with former 13: The Musical co-star Elizabeth Gillies, who extends her sold out run as Audrey. They begin performances together on Tuesday, June 17, for a limited engagement through July 27. “We are so thrilled that Liz is extending,” says producer Robert Ahrens. “She not only gives a spectacular performance as Audrey, but she also brings so much joy and camaraderie to the company.” Gillies currently stars in the production alongside Milo Manheim as Seymour, through Sunday, June 1, 2025. Between June 3 and June 15, the roles of Seymour & Audrey will be played...

Jean Smart will return to Broadway this summer in a one-woman show.

Smart, the Emmy Award-winning star of Hacks, will star in the world premiere of the dark comedy Call Me Izzy, written by Jamie Wax and directed by Sarna Lapine. The play will run at Studio 54 starting May 24, with an opening night June 12.

Call Me Izzy is scheduled for a 12-week run ending Aug. 17.

Smart is a six-time Emmy Award winner, for her role as Deborah Vance on Hacks, as well as her roles in Fraiser and Samantha, Who? She is also known for her television appearances on shows such as Designing Women and Mare of Easttown, as well as film roles including Babylon, Wildflower and Sweet Home Alabama. She first appeared on Broadway in the 1981 play Piaf, and returned in 2000 for a revival of The Man Who Came to Dinner, opposite Nathan Lane, for which she received a Tony nomination.

Hacks star Jean Smart will return to Broadway this summer in the world premiere of Jamie Wax’s darkly comedic one-woman play Call Me Izzy.

The 12-week limited engagement will play at Broadway’s Studio 54 from May 24 – August 17 with an opening night set for June 12. Directing will be Sarna Lapine (Sunday in the Park with George).

While Smart is best known for her beloved TV role Designing Women and her Emmy-winning performances in Hacks, she launched her Broadway career in 1981 in Piaf and returned the stage in the 2000 Broadway production The Man Who Came To Dinner. She earned a Tony nomination for the latter performance.

Smart has been a part of several developmental readings of Call Me Izzy, described as “a darkly comedic story about one woman in rural Louisiana who has a secret that is both her greatest gift and her only way out. It is a moving tour...

Update: Broadway’s Mean Girls star Erika Henningsen will play singer Sandra Dee in the upcoming Just In Time musical about Bobby Darin starring Jonathan Groff.

Henningsen’s arrival rounds out the cast in the world premiere Broadway staging, which begins previews at Circle in the Square Theater on Friday, March 28, with an opening night on Wednesday, April 23.

Producers Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens and John Frost made the casting announcement today.

Previous, Jan. 14: Gracie Lawrence of The Sex Lives of College Girls and the band Lawrence will make her Broadway musical debut this spring opposite Jonathan Groff in the Bobby Darin musical Just In Time. She’ll play singer Connie Francis to Groff’s Darin.

Also joining the cast is Emily Bergl, who has appeared on Broadway in Goodnight Oscar, The Ferryman, and A Touch of the Poet and on TV in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Mindhunter. For Just In TIme,...

Casting was announced for Broadway’s upcoming Just in Time starring Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin, with the Merrily We Roll Along Tony winner to be joined on stage in the new musical by Joe Barbara (A Bronx Tale The Musical), Michele Pawk (Wicked), Lance Roberts (The Music Man), Caesar Samayoa (Come From Away), Christine Cornish, Julia Grondin (Funny Girl), Valeria Yamin (Moulin Rouge!), John Treacy Egan (My Fair Lady), Tari Kelly (Mr. Saturday Night), Matt Magnusson, Khori Michelle Petinaud (Lempicka), and Larkin Reilly (Bad Cinderella).

Producers Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens and John Frost announced the casting today. With a book by Warren Leight and Isaac Oliver, music supervision and arrangements by Andrew Resnick, choreography by Shannon Lewis and based on an original concept by Ted Chapin, Just In Time, developed and directed by Alex Timbers, will open Wednesday, April 23, 2025, at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre,...

Fresh off his Tony-winning turn in a revival of Stephen Sondheim’ “Merrily We Roll Along,” Jonathan Groff will return to the rialto next spring in the new Bobby Darin jukebox musical “Just in Time.” Tony-winning director Alex Timbers (“Moulin Rouge”) will oversee the production that is set to transform the Circle in the Square theater into a nightclub complete with a swing band.

Groff will lead a cast of 16 to tell the story of this singer/songwriter who was only 37 when he died of heart disease in 1973. Darin had a string of hits in the 1950s including the chart-topping “Splish Splash,” “Dream Lover,” “Mack the Knife” and “Just in Time.” He turned to acting in the 1960s, often opposite his wife Sandra Dee (they met making “Come September” in 1961). He reaped an Oscar bid in 1963 for his supporting turn as a shell-shocked soldier in “Captain Newman, M.D.” In the 1970s,...

Jonathan Groff will return to Broadway this season in the new musical Just in Time.

In the show, Groff, a Tony winner for his role in last season’s Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along, will play Bobby Darin, the singer/songwriter known for “Beyond the Sea,” “Mack the Knife,” “Splish Splash” and more. Groff is also a producer on the project, alongside Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens and John Frost.

The show, developed and directed by Alex Timbers (Beetlejuice, Here Lies Love), will begin previews at the Circle in the Square Theatre starting March 28, 2025 with an opening night April 3. The theater is currently home to Romeo + Juliet, which is a limited run, set to close Feb. 16.

The run marks the world premiere of Just in Time, which features a book by Warren Leight (Side Man) and Isaac Oliver (Intimacy Idiot) and choreography by Shannon Lewis. The play, which features a live,...

Tony-winner Jonathan Groff is set to star in a staged reading next month of a new musical about Bobby Darin, the 1950s-’60s-era singer who scored hits with “Mack the Knife,” “Dream Lover” and “Beyond The Sea,” Deadline has confirmed.

With an eye toward Broadway, Groff will perform the industry reading of Just In Time in New York next month. Alex Timbers will direct the reading, as he did in 2018 when he teamed with Groff on an early concert version of the musical at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.

The musical takes its name from the Jule Styne-Adolph Green-Betty Comden song “Just In Time,” which Darin, among many others, recorded.

Attached to produce for an eventual Broadway run are Tom Kirdahy and Robert Ahrens. The reading in New York will be staged under the auspices of the Arlington, Virginia, non-profit regional theater Signature Theatre.

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New York, New York, the John Kander & Fred Ebb musical that arrived on Broadway last spring to considerable anticipation, will play its final performance on Sunday, July 30, having played just 33 preview and 110 regular performances.

The musical, which features additional lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and was directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, opened to mixed-to-negative reviews at the St. James Theatre on April 26. The approximately $25 million production was nominated for nine Tony Awards but took the trophy for only one – Beowulf Boritt’s elaborate scenic design.

Recent weeks have seen attendance at the St. James hovering around 70% of capacity.

“We would like to thank the extraordinarily gifted and committed performers, who have been a dream to work with, alongside all of the friends — John Kander, David Thompson, Sharon Washington, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the sublime orchestra, the unwaveringly dedicated creative, production and administrative teams, the backstage staff and technicians, all of whom were...

Laurie Metcalf and Tatiana Maslany are set to star in Grey House on Broadway.

Producers Tom Kirdahy and Robert Ahrens announced the cast and opening for the play’s New York premiere on Tuesday. Metcalf and Maslany will be joined by Paul Sparks, Sophia Anne Caruso and Millicent Simmonds in the Levi Holloway-written and Joe Mantello-directed production. Preview performances will begin April 29, with the show’s official opening set for May 30 at the Lyceum Theatre.

“The moment we encountered Levi Holloway’s Grey House, we knew we had to produce this exciting, sophisticated and terrifying new play,” the producers said in a statement. “We are thrilled to bring the horror genre to Broadway, helmed by one of the greatest directors of our time, Joe Mantello. Grey House will be unlike anything Broadway audiences have ever experienced, brought to life by extraordinary actors — Laurie Metcalf, Tatiana Maslany and Paul Sparks...

Grey House, Levi Holloway’s bumps-in-the-night stage thriller, will make its New York debut on Broadway this spring with a cast that features Laurie Metcalf, Tatiana Maslany, Paul Sparks, Sophia Anne Caruso, and Millicent Simmonds. Joe Mantello will direct.

With an opening date – Tuesday, May 30 – falling after the close of the current Broadway season, Grey House will be the first Broadway production of the 2023-2024 season. Previews begin at the Lyceum Theatre on Saturday, April 29.

Announcing itself with a teaser trailer that feels less Broadway than horror film (watch it above), Grey House, described by critics following a Chicago staging as “terrifying,” follows a couple who crash their car in the mountains and seek shelter in an isolated cabin. The synopsis continues: “Its inhabitants, though somewhat unusual, are eager to make their guests feel right at home. But as the blizzard outside rages on and one night turns into several,...

Maude Apatow is taking her talents from the small screen to Off-Broadway.

The Euphoria actress will be making her New York stage debut in Michael Mayer’s Little Shop of Horrors revival. She will be appearing in the production from Feb. 7 to April 2 as Audrey, taking over the role from Tony Away winner Lena Hall.

Mayer said in a news release, “I have long admired the emotional intelligence and vulnerability Maude has displayed on television and in film. She’s a natural fit for Audrey.”

He continued, “It delighted me to learn that, as a child, Little Shop was her gateway into her lifelong love of performing, and that this show gets to be her professional stage debut. We’re thrilled to have her become a part of the Little Shop legacy.”

Apatow is most well-known for playing Lexi Howard in Euphoria. In the show’s award-winning second season, she wrote,...

Maude Apatow will make her New York stage debut as Audrey in the Off-Broadway revival of “Little Shop of Horrors.” She will appear in the musical from Feb. 7 through April 2, 2023. Apatow joins a cast stacked with theater vets that includes Tony Award winner Matt Doyle (“Company”) as Seymour, Tony Award nominee Bryce Pinkham (“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder“) as Dr. Orin Scrivello, D.D.S., and Tony Award nominee Brad Oscar (“Something Rotten!”) as Mushnik. D’Kaylah Unique Whitley (“Dear Evan Hansen”) also joins the cast this month as Ronnette.

Apatow currently appears on HBO’s “Euphoria.” Her film and television credits include Netflix’s “Hollywood,” “Other People,” “Assassination Nation” and “The King of Staten Island.”

“I have long admired the emotional intelligence and vulnerability Maude has displayed on television and in film. She’s a natural fit for Audrey,” says the production’s Tony-winning director Michael Mayer.

Jeremy Jordan will take on the lead role of Seymour when Off Broadway’s Little Shop of Horrors returns to the stage on Sept. 21, joining original cast members Tammy Blanchard and Christian Borle under the direction of Michael Mayer.

Jordan had previously been set to join the company on March 17, 2020, before theater industry operations were suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Jonathan Groff and, later, Gideon Glick played Seymour earlier in the acclaimed revival at the Westside Theatre. The musical opened with Groff in 2019.

Jordan’s stage credits include Waitress, American Son, Finding Neverland, and Bonnie & Clyde, among others. He was Tony-nominated for 2012’s Newsies.

Tickets are on sale now for performances from September 21 through January 2, 2022.

In addition to Blanchard and Borle, other returning cast members include Tom Alan Robbins, Aaron Arnell Harrington, Salome Smith, Joy Woods, Aveena Sawyer, Eric Wright, Teddy Yudain, Stephen Berger and Chelsea Turbin.

The Off Broadway smash Little Shop of Horrors will resume its pandemic-interrupted run at the Westside Theatre on Tuesday, Sept. 21, producers announced today.

Casting for the Drama Desk Award winning production, which initially starred Jonathan Groff and later Gideon Glick, will be announced in coming months. Tickets are on sale now for performances beginning Sept. 21 through January 2, 2022; check purchase sites for playing schedules.

Directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer, the revival of the Howard Ashman-Alan Menken classic began previews at the Westside on Tuesday, September 17, 2019 and opened to strong reviews on Thursday, October 17. In addition to Groff as Seymour, the opening night cast included Tammy Blanchard as Audrey and Christian Borle in multiple roles.

Little Shop tells the story of Seymour, a down-on-his-luck florist with a crush on his co-worker Audrey. When he discovers a mysterious – and voracious – plant, suddenly...

Exclusive: Gideon Glick, To Kill a Mockingbird‘s Tony-nominated Dill Harris, will drop by the upcoming Little Shop of Horrors for a quick visit, filling in for star Jonathan Groff, star of Netflix’s Mindhunter, during the latter’s pre-scheduled two-week leave from the production.

The announcement was made by producers today.

The Little Shop of Horrors Off Broadway revival will begin previews Tuesday, September 17, at the Westside Theatre, with opening night set for Thursday, October 17. Glick will take the role of Seymour Tuesday, November 5 through Sunday, November 17. Groff returns on Tuesday, November 19.

Glick, who has moved Mockingbird‘s audience with his poignant and very funny portrayal of the young Truman Capote-based Dill since last year’s opening of the Aaron Sorkin adaptation of the Harper Lee novel. He’s also appeared in Broadway’s Significant Other in 2017 and Spring Awakening in 2006, among other stage credits. On TV he...

Jonathan Groff is, suddenly, Seymour with this fall’s Off Broadway return of the beloved Howard Ashman-Alan Menken musical Little Shop of Horrors. Co-starring with Mindhunter‘s Groff in the Michael Mayer-directed revival will be Tammy Blanchard and Christian Borle.

The production and casting was announced today by producers Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens, Hunter Arnold, Mickey Liddell, Curt Cronin and John Joseph. Previews begin Tuesday, September 17, at the Westside Theatre, with opening night set for Thursday, October 17.

Groff will play Seymour, the hapless, lovestruck florist who creates a monster when he starts feeding a voracious, people-eating and fast-growing plant. Blanchard will play his co-worker and love Audrey.

Borle has been cast as Audrey’s cruel dentist boyfriend Orin Scrivello...

Tony Award-winning producers Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens, Hunter Arnold, Mickey Liddell, Curt Cronin and John Joseph, have just announced that Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's landmark musical Little Shop Of Horrors will return to its Off-Broadwayrootsthis fall. Two-time Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff Hamilton, Spring Awakening, 'Mindhunter' will play Seymour in the long-awaited revival, opposite Emmy Award winner Tammy Blanchard Life with Judy Garland, Gypsy as Audrey, and Tony Award winner Christian Borle Something Rotten, Falsettos as Orin Scrivello D.D.S. Directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer Hedwig and the Angry Inch, American Idiot, the production begins previews Tuesday, September 17, with an official opening night of Thursday, October 17, at the Westside Theatre 407 W 43rd St. Tickets are available now at Telecharge.com, through November 24 only.