Broadway Continues Evolution Into a Series of Immersive Nightclubs

Slowly but surely, all of Broadway will be transformed into immersive-club venues. First there was Here Lies Love, which turned the Broadway Theatre into a dance floor, and then there was Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, which remade the August Wilson Theatre into, well, the Kit Kat Club. Now comes the Jonathan Groff–starring Just in Time, which will turn Broadway’s only theater in the round, Circle in the Square, into an “intimate immersive nightclub featuring a live onstage big band.” The show follows the life of 1950s and ’60s standards singer Bobby Darin and will feature a 16-person cast. Directed by Alex Timbers, who also directed Here Lies Love, the show first premiered in 2018 at the Lyric Theatre. “There’s this quote that basically says that after all the things Bobby Darin did, in the end, he felt most powerful and most alive and most himself performing in a nightclub setting,” Groff told the New York Times during rehearsals for that production. The book is written by Tony winner Warren Leight (Side Man) and Isaac Oliver (Intimacy Idiot), and the show will feature Darin standards. Previews begin on March 28, 2025, before opening on April 23 — four days before the Tony eligibility cutoff. Gee whiz, that’s … just in time.