Jonathan Groff has returned to Broadway with the kind of presence that fills a room before he even sings a note, and Just In Time (Original Broadway Cast Recording) drives that point home.  The new album is the official companion to the six-time Tony Award nominated smash, capturing Groff’s take on Bobby Darin with the spark, swagger, and behind-the-curtain intimacy that made the show a fast sellout.

Produced by Tom Kirdahy, two-time Grammy winner Bill Sherman, Andrew Resnick, and director Alex Timbers, with five-time Grammy winner Derik Lee handling the co-production, recording, and mix, the album feels built for anyone who has ever fallen in love with Darin’s catalog. This team treated the material like a living thing, sharpening every horn stab and spotlighting Groff’s phrasing with the same care they put into the stage production.

Groff has been called “onstage perfection” by the Chicago Tribune, and it shows in every moment he spends as Darin, the kid from the Bronx who turned natural charm into a career that sprinted from teen idol to global star. Just In Time pulls listeners straight into the nightclub world Timbers created, a space so vivid in the theater that critics said they didn’t want to step back outside. The recording preserves that mood, tightening the focus on the hits that built Darin’s mythology: “Beyond the Sea,” “Mack the Knife,” “Splish Splash,” “Dream Lover,” and the kind of deep-cut choices that remind you how many corners of pop music he touched.

With a book by Warren Leight and Isaac Oliver, the show earned praise as “utterly electrifying” by Entertainment Weekly and “a helluva good time at the theater” by Time Out. The cast recording bottles that charge, letting fans relive the night or experience it for the first time with the volume up. Groff doesn’t imitate Darin so much as inhabit him, bending the familiar songs toward character, storytelling, and that restless drive at the heart of Darin’s short and remarkable life.