The beloved singer makes an interesting pivot in the revamped 'Sweeney Todd' coming to Broadway.
on playing Sweeney.) “You know, I’m not one of those people who just wants to shoehorn something in just because it’s something I love. So it had to be right.”
Six years ago, Groban made his Broadway debut in a head-turning production that suggested an artist who could zig when the world expected him to zag. Ina musical directed by Rachel Chavkin and adapted by composer Dave Malloy from “War and Peace,” Groban played lumpy, taciturn Pierre in a padded costume and sang the plaintive “Dust and Ashes.” It earned him a Tony nomination and the gratifying feeling of being accepted into an ensemble.
The path to being Josh Groban at 41 involved some trial, error — and terror. As he describes it, the success was so meteoric that he really wasn’t able to digest it. All the work and pressure of grueling concert tours made him a nervous, joyless wreck. “By the time I was 25, I was having an existential crisis,” he recalls. “I had already released three albums. You know, I sold 20 million records at that point. And I was thinking to myself, ‘Well, maybe that’s it.
“I had a big concert to do in South Africa,” he continues, recalling a day several years ago. “I had an opportunity on one of my days off to go shark diving. Hell yes, I’m going to do that! Now if I’d still been 25, I would have said, ‘Going to the ocean is gonna get me sick. You know, the shark is going to touch me and I’m going to lose my voice.’ And I just said to myself, ‘You know what? Try saying yes. See what happens. ...
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