{"id":379597,"date":"2026-03-11T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/379597\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:27:08","slug":"the-pitts-isa-briones-joins-just-in-time-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/379597\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Pitt’s Isa Briones Joins ‘Just In Time’ on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIsa Briones<\/a> is taking over the role of Connie Francis in the Broadway<\/a> musical Just in Time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe role marks a return to Broadway for The Pitt star, who made her debut in Hadestown in March 2024. She begins her limited run starting April 1, opposite Matthew Morrison as the crooner Bobby Darrin, and will later play opposite Jeremy Jordan, when he takes over April 21.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to her role as Dr. Trinity Santos on The Pitt, Briones has often appeared on stage, including in the Hamilton national tour and East West Players\u2019 Next to Normal. Briones said she was drawn to play Francis, a famed 1950s and \u201860s ballad singer, because it allows her to imitate the vocal style of that era. It also balances well with the more serious content of The Pitt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s nice to do something that really just feels like joy for two hours,\u201d said Briones, shortly after her first rehearsal for Just In Time Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe role also fits into her goal of continuing to move between theater<\/a> and television throughout her career, which has also included\u00a0roles on the Disney+ series Goosebump and the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Pitt is very theatrical in how we shoot it and how we rehearse it. So being a theater person going into The Pitt felt very natural, and to keep bouncing back and forth between The Pitt and theater, which has been kind of my vibe for the last year-and-a-half, has just felt quite natural,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the second season of HBO medical drama, the lines are further blurred when Briones\u2019 character sings a Filipino lullaby to an infant patient \u2014 an idea she said came from the writers and involved consulting her father, Broadway actor Jon Jon Briones, for help selecting the right song.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Pitt is very good at playing to people\u2019s strengths and skills, and since they knew that I could sing, they were like, \u2018Alright, let\u2019s do it,\u2019\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBriones had a more trying test while shooting episode nine in the second season of The Pitt, which came out March 5, when she began to feel stomach pain and eventually had to undergo an appendectomy. She still shot scenes for the episode pre- and post-surgery. \u201cWe shut down for two days. But then when we came back, everyone came to me and was like, \u2018Honestly, thank you for having appendicitis, because we needed two days,\u2019\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBriones joins Just In Time about a year into its well-sold run, taking over the role of Francis from Sarah Hyland. For her second time on Broadway, Briones said she feels \u201creally ready,\u201d and prepared for the demands of an eight-show week, based on her experience as Eurydice in Hadestown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tShe said, \u201cI think I learned a lot from doing it. It was such an incredible experience, and I loved it. But I also can now look back and be like, \u2018Oh, I know what I can do better now.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isa Briones is taking over the role of Connie Francis in the Broadway musical Just in Time.\u00a0 The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[11942,434,18,117,19,17,174457,11943],"class_list":{"0":"post-379597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-broadway","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-isa-briones","15":"tag-theater"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116211013786320626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}