Josh Groban as the Phantom?
Josh Groban as the Phantom?
#1Josh Groban as the Phantom?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 2:17am
I've always wondered how Josh Groban would sound if he was to play the Phantom. Tonight I got my answer. Not his best, but with practice he can be better. I think he can do Raoul though.
Since I cannot put the link from the "site" here, I found an audio as well, for those who want to hear it.
http://cremebrulee07.multiply.com/music/item/23
What do you think?
God Bless everyone!
Updated On: 1/7/07 at 02:17 AM
#2re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 2:18am
What do you think.
I dunno, but perhaps the search feature could tell you what people said about it when it was first broadcast!
As for my actual opinion: FORK IN MY EYE. FORK IN MY EYE.
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#2re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 2:20amLizzie, you use a fork? I use hot needles. Dulls the pain better and they are more antiseptic.
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#3re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 2:21amI am sorry for having to post it again. I did not know that it was bad.
#4re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 2:29amIn the future please use a question mark in the title for threads like this.
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COOOOLkid
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#5re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 2:33am
Sorry, I had to do it here, too. 
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millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#6re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 2:41amNever mind.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
Updated On: 1/7/07 at 02:41 AM
Sally
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
Bdwy24
Leading Actor Joined: 8/17/05
#8re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 2:53am
Oh God, he sounded like he was in elementary school and never sang a note in his life. (and I love Josh Groban)
Im usually not this mean, Im just drunk. lol
cserannie
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/1/05
#9re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 3:12am
I think he was great! He sang this song so beautifully and I like it better than the Crawford version.
He has the voice to do it! But maybe the voice is not enough...
Norbert Leo Butz quotes about John Lithgow: "He's really clumsy. One of the joys in life is to watch a great big huge man totally wipe out backstage. It takes John about three minutes to hit the floor. It's like watching a Great Sequoia falling gracelessly."
#10re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 11:39amomg that made me want to like, cook myself or something
Can, can I have it?
think_of_me2007
Understudy Joined: 3/26/06
#11re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 11:43am
after the Kennedy Center Honors performance...
i have given up on Josh Groban because i thought he could've done so much better.
but the main reason was because of his facial expressions and his eyes that looked like they were gonna pop outta his head.
yankee_fan907
Leading Actor Joined: 10/14/06
#12re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 12:00pmHe wasn't terrible... Sure it was not great; he couldn't hit the very high note or the very low notes well, but I do think he has a good voice, and to take on such a high calibre song at an Honors performance is very honorable, yet challenging indeed.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#13re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 12:52pm
^^^
He couldn't hit the notes, but you still liked it... great 
Such a high calibre song? You guys are killing me, please keep 'em coming, this is too funny!
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#14re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 12:56pmyankee, are you serious? To you, that's good enough to have a thriving career?
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#15re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 1:01pmI watched an interview with Josh the other day and I feel bad. He said that he gets more and more nervous and has stage-fright in the worst way, everytime he performs. I assume that this was one of the scariest yet; big house, major people he is honoring, = more scared!
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yankee_fan907
Leading Actor Joined: 10/14/06
#16re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 1:03pmThank you, Jovie. I agree 100% with you. Sure that was not a great performance at all. But it is unfair to judge a performer by only one performance, let alone one song, when we know that performer is much more talented. I personally think he has a good voice, whether or not it was put to good use during that song.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#17re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 1:09pm
Dear Josh Groban,
You are not a tenor. Please stop trying to squawk out tenor notes when you clearly cannot handle them.
Best wishes,
A concerned listener
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#18re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 1:16pmIt wasn't the greatest...but it also wasn't AWFUL. He had his moments...maybe it sounded better live?
#19re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 1:18pm
I didnt like his obvious pauses from breathing..he shoudlve concentrated on phrasing and hitting that high note...I didnt think it was bad, but I definitely couldnt see him doing that through a whole 2+ hour performance as the phantom.
I like his voice on his own music tracks too..
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
#20re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 1:39pm
yankee, I don't know about you, but I - and certainly others on this thread - have heard him sing plenty of times.
It doesn't get better.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
yankee_fan907
Leading Actor Joined: 10/14/06
#21re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 2:22pmHaha well look on the bright side, it could get worse... Like Julia and Kendra coming to Broadway for Wicked...
Sally
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#22re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 7:58pm---Not trying to be snotty, just curious. Does anyone know if he studies voice, takes lessons?
Dibbledl01
Stand-by Joined: 1/7/07
#23re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 8:48pm
yes, he does train and he has been trained classically. The main reason the Kennedy Center asked Groban to sing "Music of the Night" was because he has a celebrity name and his teacher submitted him singing "All I Ask of You" to producers to get him to sing with Celine Dion (the performance which brought him his career).
Personally,he could not perform the role on the stage. The role is split 50/50 voice/acting. He has a lovely baritone range and sang the song beautifully on the low f's and eb's but the high ab needs some work, as many so wonderfully pointed out. but he probaly could not pull off the acting part of the role (although if Paul Stanley from Kiss could do it in Canada anything is possible)
Sally
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#24re: Josh Groban as the Phantom
Posted: 1/7/07 at 9:31pm
Thank you for the information. You sound knowledgeable. I don't know anything about Josh G. except that he does have an attractive voice ---although not suited for the Phantom.
Here's something else that puzzles me. Perhaps you know: Why does he sing so many songs in Italian?
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