… As the years went on, I started talking to more and more fans who were really requesting it, and it felt like I was the right age to do it, at the right stage of my life where I could express these songs honestly, so we went for it.” Stages features 13 songs chosen from “hundreds” Groban says he considered, and it also features duets with Tony Award winner Audra McDonald ? on “If I Loved You” from Carousel and with trumpeter Chris Botti on “Old Devil Moon” from “Finian’s Rainbow,” which was Groban’s first theatrical lead as a teenager. Groban, who was studying musical theater at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh when he signed with producer David Foster, says he’s long wanted to do an album dedicated to theater classics but “always kind of viewed this album, wrongly, as kind of self-indulgent. So I think Kelly and I singing this song is one of those.” You give people what they weren’t expecting. “Whenever you can take a classic song that everybody knows and add a nice surprise to it, that’s always the best thing. And, like, that night she sent me an iPhone demo of her singing it she was like, ‘What about this? Is this gonna be OK?’ I thought, ‘Oh my God, people are gonna be shocked when they hear you really open up on this,’ because she can do it. I was excited by her excitement she loved theater and loved that song and wanted to take a crack at it. “I just have always felt like her voice could do it all, and she certainly has proven that she likes to take risks. “I’ve been a fan of hers for awhile,” Groban told Billboard. You Must Listen to Josh Groban & Kelly Clarkson’s Perfect ‘Phantom of the Opera’ Song
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