14 July 2015 - 0 Comments
Multi-platinum recording
artist, Josh Groban, will perform on Dancing With The Stars – grand
final – on Sunday July 19 at 7.00pm on TV3.
Groban’s new album, Stages, is out now and is a collection of
some of the greatest musical theatre songs of all time; including music from Les Miserables, Phantom
of the Opera and more.
Groban will perform Pure Imagination from Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory onthe final episode of New Zealand’s Dancing
With The Stars.
Pure Imagination, originally sung by Gene Wilder in the film Willy
Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, which though best known as a film,
is also a West End musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
“It’s a tiny bit of a cheat because it was from a film originally, but I really
wanted to sing it,” Groban says. “The fans wanted me to as well. It’s
one of my most requested songs to record ever. I am a huge fan of the original
film, it was a part of my childhood. Gene Wilder will always be number
one for me with this song. There’s a tenderness to the way he sang it that is
just the essence of Wilder. It’s something in his soul that will never be
duplicated.”
Stages is available now on iTunes.
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