Josh Groban and Idinan Menzel in Chess in ConcertHere’s a sweet treat from Josh’s performance in Chess in Concert. In the musical, he plays Anatoly Sergievsky, along with Tony Award winner Idina Menzel as Florence. If you missed out on the performance, held in May in London’s Royal Albert Hall, PBS and BBC-TV are expected to air it in 2009.
(To allay your fears, no, Josh is not romantically involved with Idina. She’s married to Taye Diggs in real life.)
I posted earlier about a possible upcoming collaboration between Josh and OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder. After some YouTubing, I found this fanmade mashup of OneRepublic’s Apologize and Josh’s You Raise Me Up, both signature tunes of the artists.
The mashup isn’t official, of course, and the lyrics from both songs don’t seem to sit well too comfortably with each other. But, I must say, the tunes seem to click quite nicely together. On the whole, I quite like it, and would certainly be curious to see what Tedder and Josh can come up with.
Josh will be visiting the studios of 97.1 WASH-FM in Washington, DC next Thursday, 19 June. He will be performing and chatting on their morning show, which you can listen to live on WASH-FM.
For all you lucky Grobanites who live within the DC area, you stand a chance to be in-studio with Josh. Enter now for free tickets to the performance.
Josh is also starting a radio tour. Dates follow.
Josh in AfricaLast month, I posted my suspicion that Josh would be part of Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday celebration.
Now, Project 46664, the official site for the event, has confirmed that Josh has joined the list of performers at the concert, to be held at London’s Hyde Park on Friday, 27 June.
Josh cheering for the Lakers
