Overview
- Producers announced Thursday that Whitney Leavitt will begin performances as Sandra Dee in Just in Time at Circle in the Square on December 1, 2026, in a limited engagement listed by most outlets through January 10, 2027 while at least one source reports a February 7, 2027 end date.
- Leavitt’s spring turn as Roxie Hart in Chicago produced record weekly grosses that topped $1 million during her run and prompted extensions, a track record producers hope will drive holiday sales for Just in Time.
- Just in Time is the Bobby Darin biographical musical that opened April 26, 2025, is developed and directed by Alex Timbers, currently stars Jeremy Jordan as Darin, and has recouped its Broadway capitalization.
- The casting is an example of a common Broadway strategy: short, star-driven holiday stints intended to concentrate demand during peak ticket-buying weeks and sustain an already successful show.
- Leavitt brings cross-platform visibility from Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and Dancing With the Stars plus a roughly four-million social-media following and film and production projects, a combination likely to lift advance sales and prompt scrutiny of box-office trends and any run extension.