In 1956, this song replaced the original opening theme to the NBC talk show Tonight Starring Steve Allen. Darin covered the tune, and Just in Time fittingly gets off to an upbeat start with it.

Introduced in the 1956 Broadway musical Bells Are Ringing, the song celebrates the arrival of your soulmate at the right moment. In the show, it makes for a perfect introduction for the lead actor, who speaks to the audience as himself before transforming into Darin.

The song, a version of the French ditty “La Mer,” casts its on eye a distant love “who stands on distant sands.” Darin popularized it in 1959, and the show uses it to set up the journey through the life of the singer, who was born Walden Robert Cassotto.

One of Darin’s earliest career moves was writing a commercial jingle with Don Kirschner. “For value you can’t beat, start talking to your feet, we’ll hop a bus and come with us...”

The song isn’t listed in the program, but it’s included on the cast recording as a bonus track.

Connie Francis would become one of the biggest pop stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and she was a major player in Darin’s life. They share this song, co-written by Darin, that reflects on heartfelt, lasting memories of youthful romance.

This song about outsmarting authorities was a big hit in the U.K. as Darin was getting his footing as a performer. He lands an early-career break when he performs it on a TV show — even though, as comedically depicted in the show, he couldn't remember the words.

Breaking through as a musician with something new to say — and sing — wasn’t easy in a time when producers were looking for the next Elvis. This medley includes a mix of songs Darin covered as he found his sound, including “Tutti Frutti,” “Pretty Betty,” “Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend),” “Blue-Eyed Mermaid,” and “Ain’t That a Shame.” It also features “Don’t Call My Name,” which Darin co-wrote.

A family member came up with the idea for this playful rock-and-roll novelty number from 1958 that Darin co-wrote. It’s about a fun, unexpected bathtub party, and it gives Darin's career a major boost. That's all shown in the musical, and plenty of the actor playing Darin is shown, too, in a fan-favorite bathtub sequence.

Just in Time got a popularity boost, and the attention of a new generation, when the "Splish Splash" dance break went viral on social media in 2025.

Darin’s rise is mirrored by Francis’s in the first half of the show. This tearjerker of a tune that asks “Whose heart is aching for breaking each vow?” was a big hit for her. It’s also a big moment for the actress playing Francis on stage.

“I can only give you love that lasts forever and a promise to be near each time you call.” Introduced by Nat King Cole in 1952 and later popularized as the title track of Darin's 1959 album, "That's All" celebrates deep, enduring love and commitment despite life’s ups and downs. In the show, Darin shares the number with Polly, whom he calls Mom.

Darin turned this number about the most popular girl at a lively teen dance into a pop hit. In the show, his performance of the song at a New York City ballroom coincides with bad news about his Polly — the queen of his life.

“The good life lets you hide all the sadness you feel.” Written in French, the song about avoiding heartbreak was translated and became a hit for Tony Bennett in the early 1960s. In the show, Nina, whom Darin knew as his sister, reveals a startling secret about herself and Polly during this number.

“Linger in the shade of a kind, old tree, throw away your troubles, dream a dream with me.” That’s the advice of this 1931 song co-written by Hoagy Carmichael, and Darin's cover reached number 14 on the Hot 100 chart. Life is never really a lazy river for Darin, as the show makes clear.

Written in 1928, the song is from Bertolt Brecht's play The Threepenny Opera, which was revived on Broadway in 1955. Darin put his stamp on the song about a charming, murderous gangster to great success in 1959. This was the year Darin won two Grammys: for Best New Artist and Record of the Year (an album he financed, per the musical). This show uses this breakthrough as a fitting end to Act 1.

In 1959, Darin wrote this swoony tune about ideal romance and released it as a single that hit number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. As Act 2 begins, life is pretty idyllic for Darin: He’s making his movie debut in Come September with Sandra Dee, who’s already a movie star with a Golden Globe.

“Ballads are being sung, but not for me. Church bells are being rung, but not for me.” Love is clearly missing in this Darin song released in 1963. In the show, Sandra Dee sings it as she laments about childhood happiness lost to fame.

Darin's playful early-’60s song celebrates love and starting a family. He achieved moderate international chart success with it, especially in the U.K., and sings it in Come September. In the show, two supporting players perform the song.

“I never doubted your love for a minute, I always thought that you would be true. But now this box and the flowers in it, I guess there's nothin' left for me to do.” Darin wrote this song, released as a single from his same-named album in 1963, to gain favor with Dee’s mother. The show depicts him doing just that as feelings bloom between Darin and Dee during filming.

“Your magic hands, your lovin’ eyes, your kissable lips make my heart realize I’m in love.” Undeniable attraction is the theme of this 1960 Bobby Peterson song, which Darin covered to modest acclaim two years later. The words speak for themselves about the film co-stars’ offscreen lives. At first, anyway.

Released in 1962, Darin’s number 3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 nostalgically reflects on memories of past love. In Just in Time, after Darin and Dee tie the knot, their relationship starts to unravel when she joins him on tour and turns to alcohol and gambling for company while he performs.

“It keeps on rainin' every day, just keeps on rainin', won't go away.” Darin poured out his heartache over a failing relationship in his 1966 song. The number underscores his divorce in the musical.

“I'm a captain without an ocean and a lover without emotion and a monk free of devotion, but I am. Most of all, I am.” Darin expresses being adrift in his song. On stage, the song is an instrumental number, but it’s performed in full on the Just in Time cast recording.

Darin, who became politically active in the 1960s, covered this 1910 song associated with the performer Sophie Tucker. “If you leave me, you know it’s gonna grieve me,” go the lyrics. In the show, Polly reappears as a long-hidden secret comes out.

Released in 1966, this folk song expresses unconditional love and devotion. Darin’s version achieved modest chart success.

Though their marriage curdles, Dee and Darin’s relationship sweetens in this moment of the show, when they realize they’re better divorced than married.

The song is from the 1962 Broadway musical Stop the World - I Want to Get Off. It sings of a turning point: “Just once in a lifetime, a man knows a moment, one wonderful moment when fate takes his hand.” In the musical, Darin, a nightclub animal, sings this when he returns to perform in 1972 at his natural habitat: the Copacabana.

In this reprise of the number sung by Polly in the first act, it is sung by Darin — as if it's a punctuation mark at a pivotal point in his life.

Released in 1966, Darin’s song reflects on the end of a performance. As the makeup comes off, the artist hopes the audience is left happy because... that’s all. Darin died at age 37 after heart surgery.

Don't worry, you won't go home on a downer note. As the cast take their bows, they perform snippets of various songs heard throughout the show. You can sing along, dance along, and even film this part of the show, to rewatch when you inevitably have Darin's tunes stuck in your head on the way home.

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Photo credit: Just in Time on Broadway. (Photos by Matthew Murphy)