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Seen on Facebook - auction for Just in Time tickets which closes on Sunday (appears legitimate but I do not have confirmation).

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🎟 SHOW: JUST IN TIME – SUNDAY, SEPT. 7, 2:00 P.M.

🎟️ TWO TICKETS ORCHESTRA F131-133

📍 LOCATION: CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE

235 W 50TH ST. NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10019

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With the original Broadway cast recording now available on streaming, Variety spoke with Groff, Lawrence and Henningsen about portraying fame in the ’50s, what they believe made Darin fall in love with Dee and Francis during his career, and what they have learned as performers since setting foot into the world of Bobby Darin.

Both Connie and Sandra had tumultuous relationships with Bobby throughout their careers. How did all three of you work together to show the evolution of all of their relationships with Bobby throughout “Just in Time?”

Henningsen: Jonathan’s the easiest person to have chemistry with on stage ever. I don’t think he’s ever been in a show opposite anybody where you haven’t fully believed it. Jonathan’s so open, and by Act 2, he’s had the audience in the palm of his hand for an hour. And I think what Jonathan does so beautifully is he really passes me the ball when I come out, and he doesn’t try to take it. I really sort of took over steering the show for 15 minutes away from our leading man. I think what Jonathan does so beautifully is like, if there was any friction there, you wouldn’t get to know Sandra enough to care about her. In Act 2, Bobby and Sandra become equals because you see her in her first moment on stage do the thing that he’s been doing the whole time, and he realizes he’s met his match.

Groff: It’s such an American story of [Bobby and Sandra’s marriage in] under 40 minutes. So much happens so quickly, which is an expression of the fact that his life moved so fast, and considering he died by the time he was 37 and he was always aware of that ticking clock. That is definitely articulated in that relationship between Sandra and Bobby in the show and our incredible book writer Isaac Oliver and our director Alex Timbers would do work sessions about the characters and about the research and what we had read. Isaac, our writer, was really interested in collaborating and talking about the sort of beats of their story and the relationship dynamics in the Bobby and Sandra relationship that most spoke to us as people today.

Lawrence: Jonathan and I have such a natural rapport as people and it mirrored the relationship that Connie and Bobby had. Our relationship is not romantic, but they have so much love and respect for one another. I think it’s a coincidence and it’s a really fortuitous one with the way that we like to perform with each other. It seems to really mirror the way that Bobby and Connie perform with each other, which is just to have fun and to be really present and to react to whatever the other one is giving them.

“Rainin’” is one of the songs on this musical that feels very cinematic. When you all are performing, do you ever feel like the staging makes the performance more vivid?

Henningsen: It’s so funny you say that I was on stage the other day and it is a very cinematic feeling with these songs. The great thing about pop songs is that they’re underwritten and a lot of contemporary musical theater is very overwritten. We’re narrating the thing that we’re doing, whereas pop music is that the lyrics are generally open for interpretation. Your word “cinematic” is so correct, because the songs are meant to be evocative of a mood. Pop songs are meant to be evocative of a mood as opposed to facts. There’s a moment in “Rainin’” where I’m downstage in a spot and Jonathan’s behind me, and we’re lit in a way that’s clearly showing we’re in two different places mentally, and I’m watching him sing. Nobody can actually see my eyes watching Jonathan sing, but I do feel I’m in a movie at that moment where it’s like Sandra at home and hearing Bobby on the radio. I really hadn’t thought of it that way, but I think that’s what people are responding to.

Groff: That’s an interesting usage of words. The way that Alex has designed the space, because it’s using Circle in the Square in such a unique and expansive way, that performing the whole show feels quite cinematic. Being inside of his vision of what the space looks like with that B stage, and in the performance of the songs, I feel a spirituality in the music.

What are you most hopeful for audiences to discover when they hear the “Just in Time” soundtrack, and what has playing each of your characters taught you about yourselves as performers?

Groff: …Playing Bobby has changed my life in so many ways since we’ve been working on the show for eight years, and he was a man that never gave up and kept his nose to the ground with the time he was given. Every day I get to try to evoke him when I go out there on stage and I’m eternally grateful to get to embody him at this moment in time.

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• @justintimebway The electricity. The aliveness. The joy. The #JustInTimeBway cast album is streaming now!

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A short video of Isaac Oliver with Jonathan, cast and band at the listening party, and Jonathan with Valeria Yamin and Julia Grondin, posted by Jimmy O’Connell.

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Jonathan and company at the ‘Just in Time’ listening party for the new cast recording.

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Krystal Joy Brown and Morgan Marcell backstage, and Jennifer Lopez at the show.

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Instagram stories from Christine Cornish about cast celebrations for her pregnancy.

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Gideon Glick as Tobias Bell and Jonathan Groff as Kevin ÉTOILE — The Slip (1.07)

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splishin and splashin

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Baayork Yesterday’s matinee at “Just in Time” the audience couldn’t get enough of Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin. If you can get a ticket, run don’t walk to see his high-energy compelling performance. Bravo to Shannon Lewis for her clever and entertaining choreography. There is nothing like going to the theatre.

Mrroryomalley Kings support Kings! Groff’s immense talent combined with how hard he works has made him the most thrilling man on Broadway. Watching JUST IN TIME is a gift. Congrats to Alex Timbers and all involved! I am a huge LAWRENCE fan now! Happy belated birthday Jenny!! Top night!

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There will be a documentary with Hamilton original cast members, including Jonathan, shown when Hamilton is in cinemas on 5 September.

oh my god

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Jonathan Groff was surprised to see his Conestoga Valley middle school teacher appear next to him on a Broadway stage Saturday night, right after he finished his curtain call at the end of his performance.

What the Tony Award-winning actor didn’t know was that the producers of “Just In Time,” the musical in which the Ronks native is starring as 1960s pop singer Bobby Darin, had arranged for him to receive his honorary doctorate of fine arts degree from Franklin & Marshall College, as the audience stood for the end-of-show ovation.

“Probably a month ago ... I had a conversation with one of his [Broadway] producers about this,” said Fisher in a phone interview Tuesday. “They thought that it would be a great idea if we could present him with his diploma on stage.”

Fisher, who directed Groff in plays at what was then called Conestoga Valley Middle School and who had encouraged him to pursue becoming a professional actor, had accepted Groff’s honorary doctorate for him at F&M’s commencement May 10. Groff was busy performing in “Just In Time” that day.

Fisher was planning to see “Just in Time” for the third time at New York’s Circle in the Square Theatre on Saturday night, in the company of two former students: Tony Spleen, who had performed in the very first middle-school play the now-retired Fisher directed in 1978, and Peter Fenton, who wrote the very last play she directed in the CV district in March of this year.

When the producers found out Fisher would be in the audience Saturday night, they set up the on-stage ceremony.

It all came together quite fast,” Fisher said Tuesday. “They wanted to keep it a surprise, so word was not sent out to anyone else. And I didn’t tell anyone.”

Groff knew Fisher was in the audience; his former teacher always brings chocolate chip cookies to send backstage for him and his fellow cast members when she comes to see any of his shows.

On Saturday, Fisher said, a stage manager took her from her seat to a place at the back edge of the stage, “where I had to hide until Jonathan was clearly on stage making his final bow.”

Tony-nominated actor Gracie Lawrence, who plays Connie Francis in “Just In Time,” introduced Fisher, who stepped on stage with a microphone.

In a video Spleen took of the event, Groff can be seen jumping up and down when he realizes Fisher is being introduced.

Fisher told the “Just in Time” audience how Groff was “very eager, very enthusiastic and highly unprepared” for his audition for his seventh-grade play, “Hercules.” When he came back in eighth grade, she said, he worked hard to win the lead role of conman Teddy Best in the play “Best in the West.”

“I knew this kid was something special,” Fisher told the Broadway audience. His performance “was just magnetic; you couldn’t take your eyes off him.”

Michelle Pawk, who plays Bobby Darin’s mother, Polly, in “Just In Time” placed the doctoral stole around Groff’s neck on stage.

“Congratulations, Dr. Groff,” Fisher said, to the cheers of the audience.

“Jonathan was so happy,” Fisher said Tuesday. “He’s so deserving of this.”

Fisher said she heard a lot of appreciation for teachers Saturday night after the Broadway show.

“When I stepped off the stage ... the whole cast was there. And people from the crew, and musicians,” Fisher said Tuesday. “And they just wanted to hug me and tell me how much they now appreciate their own teachers. And what they really wanted to do was go contact them.”

“Teachers are everything,” Groff told the audience after Fisher’s speech. “Sue changed my life by telling me I could do this for a living.” He added she has changed many students’ lives “by involving them in the play and giving them the gift of the arts.”

“I’m just so proud of Jonathan,” Fisher said Tuesday. She noted she saw “Just in Time” for a fourth time on Sunday, “and I will be back again.”

With cookies for the cast, no doubt.

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Jonathan in Hamilten Instagram stories from Okierete Onaodowan (Oak).

oak's voice is so angelic

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Jonathan posted by Erika Henningsen, probably for his dresser Hayley King’s ‘‘Saints and Sinners’ themed birthday party on Sunday.

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Video included in the interview. Another video interview from Sue Fisher’s home is on the journalist’s Facebook page.

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. —

Sue Fisher kept a promise to Lancaster County native and Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff by attending his Broadway show and surprising him on stage with his honorary doctorate. Fisher has been following Groff's career for 26 years since middle school, and she recently joined him on stage after the curtain call of "Just in Time."

"I had the honor of presenting him with his diploma from his honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from F&M and his hood right there on stage," Fisher said.

Groff was awarded the honorary doctorate from Franklin & Marshall College in the spring, and Fisher accepted the degree on his behalf, an experience she described as unforgettable.

"That's all I could focus on, just thinking about him and how much he deserved the honor of this degree, but also how much he deserved all of that applause and the accolades. And we just coming out of that audience. And I was just so incredibly proud," Fisher said.

Groff, who performed the lead role in Mrs. Fisher's eighth-grade play, has since thanked her on the Tony Awards stage for her encouragement.

"You've got a talent that is unlike anything I've seen. You need to pursue this," Fisher told Groff.

"That's the way it has always been. You can never get enough of watching him on stage," Fisher said.

Jonathan Groff emphasized the importance of teachers in helping students understand where their dreams can lead them.

"Jonathan followed his dream," said Fisher. "But that's what we're here to do. Help kids understand what their dreams can, where their dreams can lead

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Jenna Bush Hager asked Matt Rogers on Today whether Jonathan has contacted him yet after Matt called him his gay celebrity crush on Hot Ones. Matt says there has been no conduct but Jonathan is busy in a show and has no social media. More details in the article at Us Magazine.

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Jonathan received his honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Franklin and Marshall College, presented by his former teacher Sue Fisher, after Just in Time’s Saturday evening performance. TikTok from andrewwburke.