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Just In Time (musical)
''Just in Time'' is a jukebox musical based on the life of American singer Bobby Darin, with a book by Warren Leight and Isaac Oliver. The musical premiered on April 23, 2025, at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre. The show starts with lead performer Jonathan Groff portraying himself in 2025, and then goes back to the 1950s and 1960s to tell Darin's story. Origins and development The musical originated as ''The Bobby Darin Story'', a series of five concerts in 2018 at the 92nd Street Y starring Groff as Darin, who has since developed it with Timbers, alongside music supervision and arrangements by Andrew Resnick and choreography by Shannon Lewis. On November 11, 2024, a benefit concert performance previewing ''Just in Time'' was held at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia. In December 2024, ''Billboard'' shared a preview of three of Groff's songs recorded for the musical: " Beyond the Sea", "Dream Lover", and " Just in Time". Other songs featured in the productio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Leight
Warren Donald Leight (; born January 17, 1957) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and television producer. He is best known for his work on '' Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' and '' Lights Out'' and as the showrunner for ''In Treatment'' and '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. His play ''Side Man'' was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Biography Personal life Warren Leight was born to jazz trumpeter Don Leight (1923–2004), and his wife, Timmy, the second of two children. Both Warren and his older sister, Jody (b. 1955), grew up with financial trouble and around clubs. In the 1950s, his father played with jazz musicians such as Claude Thornhill, Woody Herman and Buddy Rich. Leight's uncle, Larry, and paternal great-grandfather, Harry Gurovitch, were also trumpet players of Russian descent. His grandmother, Sarah Gurowitsch, was a cellist. He was raised in the Sunnyside section of the borough of Queens and the Upper West Side of Manhatt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond The Sea (song)
"Beyond the Sea" is the English-language version of the French song " La Mer" by Charles Trenet, popularized by Bobby Darin in 1959. While the French original was an ode to the sea, Jack Lawrence – who composed the English lyrics – turned it into a love song. Versions "Beyond the Sea" has been recorded by many artists, but Bobby Darin's version released in late 1959 is the best known, reaching No. 6 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, No. 15 on the US R&B Chart, No. 7 in Canada (co-charted with "That's The Way Love Is"), and No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart in early 1960. Before Bobby Darin's version, two instrumental recordings reached the Top 40 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Benny Goodman's version charted in 1948, and was featured in the Cary Grant/ Betsy Drake romantic comedy ''Every Girl Should Be Married''. Roger Williams' recording reached No. 37 in 1955. The first recording of "Beyond the Sea" was by Harry James and His Orchestra on December 22, 1947, and the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, casino, hotel, restaurant, or nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or drinking, does not typically dance but usually sits at tables. Performances are usually introduced by a master of ceremonies (M.C.). The entertainment, as performed by an ensemble of actors and according to its European origins, is often (but not always) oriented towards adult audiences and of a clearly underground music, underground nature. In the United States, striptease, American burlesque, burlesque, drag shows, or a solo (music), solo vocalist with a pianist, as well as the Music venue, venues which offer this entertainment, are often advertised as cabarets. Etymology The term originally came from Picard language or Walloon language words ''camberete'' or ''cambret'' for a small room (12th century). The first printed use of the word ''kaberet' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immersive Theater
Immersive theater differentiates itself from traditional theater by removing the stage and Audience immersion, immersing audiences within the performance itself. Often, this is accomplished by using a specific location (''Site-specific theatre, site-specific''), allowing audiences to converse with the actors and interact with their surroundings (''Interactive art, interactive''), thereby breaking the fourth wall. (Immersive theater and interactive theater are not necessarily synonymous; immersive theater may not have interactive elements in it at all, and interactive theater may not be immersive in the core sense.) In ''choose-your-own-adventure theater'', agency is given to the audience to participate in changing the narrative while the performance is taking place. ''Bespoke theater'', invented by ''Fondudes'', extends participation to pre-production so each show is customized per audience at script level. Modern forms of immersive theater have a wide range of definitions, all base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preview (theatre)
Previews are a set of public performances of a Theatre, theatrical presentation that precede its Premiere, official opening, known as the press night. The purpose of previews is to allow the Theatre director, director and Stagehand, crew to identify problems and opportunities for improvement that were not found during rehearsals and to make adjustments before Theatre criticism, critics are invited to attend. The duration of the preview period varies, and ticket prices may be reduced. The term can also be used to describe an exhibition of a film to evaluate an audience's reaction and make possible changes before its official release. (This is different from a "Trailer (promotion), trailer", a short advertisement for a finished film.) References * Stage terminology Types of polling {{Theatre-stub de:Vorschau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Frost (producer)
John Edward Frost (AM) (born 30 September 1952) is an Australian theatrical stage impresario. He is co-founder and CEO of Sydney-based production companThe Gordon Frost Organisation (GFO) In December 2020, he sold the company tCrossroads Live Company (CXL)but continues in the role of CEO. Early life John Edward Frost was educated at the Ferryden Park Primary School, and thCroydon Technical School His father, Albert Edward was an Adelaide waterside worker and his mother, Louie Dorcas (née Oldfield) was a housewife and an officer cleaner. Frost grew-up in Adelaide where he regularly staged backyard entertainments with his doting Aunt, Mary, who despite her serious speech stutter played Eliza to his Henry Higgins, miming to the ''My Fair Lady'' cast album. His childhood was influenced by American television and Hollywood movies at Saturday afternoon cinema sessions. From the moment he saw a production of '' The Great Waltz'' at Her Majesty's Theatre in Adelaide he knew what he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ahrens
Robert Ahrens (born 1970) is a film and theatrical producer based in New York City. Early life and education Ahrens grew up in Long Island, New York. He graduated from Cornell University, where he was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He began his career at the Chase Manhattan Bank. Career Ahrens is best known as a producer of the Broadway musical '' Xanadu'', which was nominated for Best Musical at the 2008 Tony Awards. Ahrens began acquiring the stage rights to the ''Xanadu'' musical in 2002 after seeing an unauthorized 2001 stage production of the film. Working as an assistant to an executive at Paramount Pictures at the time, he pursued the rights to ''Xanadu'' and its soundtrack by the Electric Light Orchestra and swiftly began courting writer Douglas Carter Beane to write the book. He produced three films, ''Bumping Heads'', '' Book of Love'', and '' WTC View''. He also produced '' Evita'' on Broadway and executive produced '' Finding Neverland'' for Harv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Kirdahy
Thomas Joseph Kirdahy (born June 18, 1963) is an American Tony Award, Tony and Olivier Award-winning theatrical producer, film producer, lawyer, and Activism, activist. Kirdahy's upcoming projects include the 2024 Broadway revival of ''Gypsy (musical), Gypsy'', starring six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and directed by five-time Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe, the new Broadway musical ''Just in Time (musical), Just in Time'', starring Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin, and the Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025 film), film adaptation of the Terrence McNally, John Kander, and Fred Ebb musical ''Kiss of the Spider Woman (musical), Kiss of the Spider Woman'', written and directed by Bill Condon and starring Jennifer Lopez. His current productions include the Broadway musical ''Hadestown'', winner of eight Tony Awards including Tony Award for Best Musical, Best Musical, and the off-Broadway revival of ''Little Shop of Horrors (musical), Little Shop of Horrors'' o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatrical Producer
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. It is the oldest form of drama, though live theatre has now been joined by modern recorded forms. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. Places, normally buildings, where performances regularly take place are also called "theatres" (or "theaters"), as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical termino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Timbers
Alex Timbers (born August 7, 1978) is an American writer and director best known for his work on stage and television. He has received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Drama Desk Award, as well as nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Grammy Award. Timbers received the Drama League Founder's Award for Excellence in Directing and the Jerome Robbins Award for Directing. Timbers received a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for '' Moulin Rouge!'' and a Special Tony Award for David Byrne's ''American Utopia'' both at the 74th Tony Awards. He was nominated for two further Tony Awards for '' Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson'' and '' Peter and the Starcatcher''. Other Broadway credits include '' The Pee-wee Herman Show'', ''Beetlejuice'' , '' Gutenberg! The Musical!'', '' Here Lies Love'', and ''Oh Hello! on Broadway'', written by and starring comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney. On television, he co-created the Amazon Prime Video s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Chapin
Ted Chapin is a producer, performer, presenter, and former president of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. Chapin has led and encouraged many Broadway productions and revivals, some of the most well-known including: " Irving Berlin’s White Christmas,” “ Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” “South Pacific” Broadway revival, “The King and I,” “Oklahoma!” and “Carousel.” He also approved many television productions such as “The Sound of Music Live!” on NBC and “Cinderella,” starring Whitney Houston and Brandy, on ABC. Chapin serves on several boards including: American Theatre Wing, Godspeed Musicals, New Music USA, New York City Center, Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, and the Tony Award Administration Committee. He is the co-founder of the Encores! series at New York City Center, and was the producer of the 92nd Street Y’s ''Lyrics and Lyricists'' series for two seasons with programs saluting Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis Jr., Irving Berlin, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mack The Knife
"Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" () is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their 1928 music drama ''The Threepenny Opera'' (). The song tells of a knife-wielding criminal of the London underworld named Macheath, the "Mack the Knife" of the title. The song has become a popular standard recorded by many artists after it was recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1955 with translated lyrics by Marc Blitzstein. The most popular version of the song was by Bobby Darin in 1959, whose recording became a number one hit in the US and UK and earned him two Grammys at the 2nd Annual Grammy Awards. Ella Fitzgerald also received a Grammy for her performance of the song in 1961. The original German lyrics and music of the song entered the public domain in the United States in 2024. ''The Threepenny Opera'' A '' Moritat'' is a medieval version of the murder ballad performed by strolling minstrels. In ''The Threepenny Opera'', the singer with his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
