It might be time to call it quits on biographical jukebox musicals. “Jersey Boys” ignited a trend, but its many spawn have been mostly ill-conceived. Recently we’ve had “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,” “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations,” “The Cher Show,” “MJ,” “Tina,” “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical,” and this season’s short-lived “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical.” To this less-than-honorable list we can now add “Just in Time,” based on the life and music of Bobby Darin, starring Jonathan Groff (“Hamilton,” “Looking”).
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