Jonathan Groff

Happy Sad Confused

Josh Horowitz

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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He's just coming off a Tony win and he just might be in line for another! Jonathan Groff takes center stage on this episode to talk about playing Bobby Darin in JUST IN TIME, how SPRING AWAKENING changed his life, why he was so well suited for MINDHUNTER, and what he considers the best movie musicals of all time! UPCOMING EVENTS 28 YEARS LATER Q&A with Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, & Danny Boyle 6/1 in NY -- ⁠⁠⁠tickets here⁠⁠⁠ Gary Oldman in LA 6/3 -- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tickets here⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Happy Sad Confused patreon here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! We've got discount codes to live events, merch, early access, exclusive episodes, video versions of the podcast, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I came out of the closet publicly in 2009, I really thought I was saying goodbye to anything in film and television.
0:11.8	I really was like, I guess that'll be the end of that.
0:15.2	And I'm okay with that because I'd rather be who I am than hide who I am to be in movies.
0:21.6	Prepare your ears, humans.
0:23.5	Happy, sad, confused begins now.
0:28.8	Hey, guys, I'm Josh, and welcome to another edition of Happy, Sad, Confused.
0:33.5	I have a special treat for you guys today.
0:35.1	If you love theater, if you love Mind Hunter, if you love Frozen, this is the guy for you. Mr. Jonathan Groff is my guest today.
0:43.3	A charming, delightful man talking about his latest triumph on Broadway playing Bobby Darren in Justin Time. He is Tony nominated. He is amazing in it. This conversation is a blast. That's coming
0:54.9	at you today on Happy, Sad, Confused. Before we get to that, a couple announcements, updates,
1:01.1	things that I've been doing that I wanted to mention. Speaking of theater, this is just like
1:04.9	a fun thing to mention. You know, a lot of people are attracted to the big Broadway shows, and I
1:09.6	see a lot of them, including Justin Time with Jonathan Groff.
1:13.7	I recently got a chance to see this really cool set of two different one-act plays that is at the Manetta Lane Theater.
1:22.8	This is downtown in New York.
1:24.3	This is a small theater by New York standards.
1:29.4	And it's a really cool collaboration that Hugh Jackman is doing with Audible and this theater, bringing these kind of smaller scale
1:36.6	productions to the masses with big stars, great playwrights, and at somewhat more, I think,
1:42.9	affordable prices. They're tough tickets to get. But if you can get them, I've seen both of these plays. Right now, Hugh Jackman is on stage with Ella Beatty. Yeah, Ella Beatty. She's Annette Benning and Warren Beatty's daughter, actually, and she's amazing in this. I've never seen her act before um this is a two-hander
2:01.9	uh and it's called sexual misconduct of the middle classes it's really compelling stuff uh also got a
2:08.8	chance to see justice smith and leap schreiber in a play called the creditors and maggie siff i think
2:15.4	is the third actor in that one anyway Anyway, these are both excellent productions.
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