Stages (Deluxe Edition)
Multi-platinum recording artist Josh Groban releases a new album, ‘Stages,’ and for Groban fans, it’s will exceed even the wildest of dreams! The album is a collection of some of the greatest musical theatre songs of all time.
“Nothing has inspired me more in my life than the energy that is shared in a theatre when great songs and great art are on the stage,” he says. “I wanted this album to pay tribute to those inspirations and memories.”
Recorded with producers Humberto Gatica and Bernie Herms in both Los Angeles and London’s Abbey Road (with a 75-piece orchestra), ‘Stages’ features songs from Les Misérables (“Bring Him Home”); Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel (“You’ll Never Walk Alone”); Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George (“Finishing the Hat”), Sweeney Todd (“Not While I’m Around”), and Into the Woods (“Children Will Listen”); The Fantasticks (“Try to Remember”); A Chorus Line (“What I Did For Love”); Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Phantom of the Opera (“All I Ask of You”), The Wizard of Oz (“Over the Rainbow”), and others.
“‘Stages’ is an album I’ve wanted to make since freshman year as a Musical Theatre student at Carnegie Mellon,” Groban says. “Having lived in New York City the last few years, seeing as much theatre as I could see, it became really inspiring to take this on. It was time.”
‘Stages’ features three duets: Kelly Clarkson on “All I Ask of You,” Audra McDonald for “If I Loved You” and trumpeter Chris Botti plays on “Old Devil Moon.”
