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Saturday, January 25, 2025

Girls, If You Want To Swoon Over Jonathan Groff--And Who Doesn't?????????--This Is The Show To Do It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


                          Twenty years ago, before he became a known sexual predator, Kevin Spacey, then a great actor, did a vanity film for his mother called "Beyond The Sea."  I remember going to see it, and the theater had a dozen people.  During the film, two folks walked out.



                           Spacey was just too old for the role.  Kate Bosworth, who played Sandra Dee, looked like his daughter, standing next to him.


                             But Spacey's vocals were pretty good.  His mother was pleased, because she loved Bobby Darin, which is why he made the film in the first place.  I was astonished at this skill I never thought he had.  He parlayed it into a brief nightclub act in Manhattan, and then aboard a cruise ship.


                             He never utilized this skill again.  Pity.


                             Now, Jonathan Groff, who won a TONY Award for humanizing a hitherto inhumane character--Franklin Shepard in "Merrily We Roll Along"--is assuming the role of Darin in this show called "Just In Time."  It begins performances at the Circle In The Square in late March and opens sometime in April.  Groff is a fine actor, and a fine young man, and you girls all know how I appreciate fine young men!!!!!!!!!


                              Groff's vocals outdo Spacey's in ways the latter could not even do.  I am so looking forward to seeing Jonathan in this, hoping, he will win a third TONY Award for this, or at least be nominated.


                             But who am I to talk?  Listen to Groff yourselves, girls.

                             Here he is singing "Dream Lover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                           Clutch those pillows, and dream of Jonathan, girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 comments:

Victoria said...

I guess he’s most famous for Hamilton, but people LOVED him in Mindhunter!!

The Raving Queen said...

Victoria, I had no idea he was in "Mindhunter." I will have to look at it.