I don't know how long it's been since I last listened to one of Josh Groban's songs but last night I listened to it again and I had this feeling like woah. It felt like it was the first time listening to his music. It was awesome. I've been so caught up in listening to the Jonas Brothers cd that I haven't been listening to Josh, except for a few times when I looked him up on youtube and would listen to him sing 'Oh Holy Night' and some songs he sang from Chess. But honestly, no matter how much I love listening to the Jonas Brothers and how much I think they rock, Josh is still the best singer on the planet to me and I think it's always going to stay that way. The Jonas Brothers have really good voices but Josh, his is incredible.
He has this voice that makes you feel at ease, you're in a peaceful mood and you don't care about anything or think about anything except what you're listening to. It's been a long time since I've felt like that. Yesterday I was having a very bad night, getting the idea that I might not be a real fan to one of my favorite bands so I put in his CD and it kind of made me forget about that. And if I do think about it, I don't really worry about it as much. Josh Groban is amazing and I know his voice will always sound just as amazing as if it were my first time lisening to it. • • • • to post comments.
Josh Groban had a popular song with 'Old Devil Moon.' So will his lead role in a musical about a comet send his star streaking across the Great White Way?
Anthony Mason has saved us a seat. On Broadway: In a studio on New York's 42nd Street, the cast of the new musical 'The Great Comet of 1812' rehearses for opening night. Twenty-four members of this production will soon be making their Broadway debuts, including the leading man, Josh Groban. 'This is something you've wanted for a long time,' Mason said.
'Yeah, it was my childhood dream,' Groban replied. For weeks now, the 35-year-old singer has been putting in grueling 12-hour days to get ready. Is it harder work than he thought it would be? 'I'm a professional worrier, so it is as hard as I thought it would be,' he laughed. 'Yeah, but I know you're not afraid to work hard.'
'I have an excellent work ethic -- and I also worry. So I think maybe the two are related.' Directing Groban and the cast is Rachel Chavkin, who admits there is a lot of anticipation about the show. I've been dreaming about it every night!'
Josh Groban and the rest of the cast rehearse a number from Chavkin will also be making her Broadway debut -- high stakes for everyone, said Groban, 'but exciting. It just reminds me of when I was in high school.' That was the last time Groban was in a musical -- at age 17, playing a skinny Tevye in 'Fiddler on the Roof,' while a senior at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. Groban went on to the elite musical theatre program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where his small class included Josh Gad (who'd play Olaf in 'Frozen'), Katy Mixon, who'd play Melissa McCarthy's sister in 'Mike & Molly'), and Leslie Odom Jr. (who'd win a Tony Award starring in 'Hamilton'). 'So many of my favorite, now on Broadway actors and TV actors were in my class of 13,' Groban said. But at the end of his first semester, Groban dropped out when Warner Brothers offered him a record deal.
His debut album, released in 2001, would sell nearly seven million copies. His second album sold nearly eight million. The baby-faced baritone, whom The New York Times called 'our national choirboy,' was a sensation who defied genre or trend. By on Director Rachel Chavkin has transformed the Imperial Theatre into Imperial Russia, taking out 200 seats to extend the stage and create an intimate supper club for 1,200 guests. 'So the cast literally ends up on the stage, in the audience, up on the balcony, everywhere?'
I mean it would probably be as proper to say there is no stage,' said Chavkin. A scene from 'The Great Comet' has come a long way from the tiny Ars Nova theatre, where the show was conceived four years ago, playing to an audience of 87 people. Groban saw an early production, and reached out when he heard it was headed to Broadway. Last year, he began working with Chavkin and the musical's composer and creator, Dave Malloy. Mason asked Malloy what brought him to 'War and Peace.'