Singers Josh Groban and Kelly Clarkson teamed up for a duet that musical theater geeks will adore.
Groban debuted the cover of “All I Ask of You” from Phantom of the Opera on SoundCloud. It appears on his new album Stages, which comes out on April 28 and features hits from musicals such as Les Misérables, The Fantasticks and A Chorus Line. The album also boasts a rendition of “If I Loved You” from Carousel with six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald.
Brando Takes Broadway: On the Set of 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' 1947
Kim Hunter (left), Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and others in rehearsal for the original production of A Streetcar Named Desire.Eliot Elisofon—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesCaption from LIFE. Blanche DuBois, is a Southern girl who lives in a make-believe world of grandeur, preens in faded evening gowns and makes herself out to be sweet, genteel and deliccate. She comes to visit her sister Stella and brother-in-law in the French quarter of New Orleans.Eliot Elisofon—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesCaption from LIFE. Her sister and her sister's Polish husand Stanley (Marlon Brando), after a fierce querrel brought about by Blanche's endless meddling, are reconciled in a touching love scene on stairway of their ramshackle little flat.Eliot Elisofon—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesCaption from LIFE. Blanche and Stella (Kim Hunter) undress in a bedroom which is divided from living room by partly closed curtains. Though Blanche complains about the noisy poker party which is going on in the adjoining room, she purposely stands so she can be seen by Mitch (Karl Malden, third from left).Eliot Elisofon—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesCaption from LIFE. Acting the coquette, Blanch curtsies to Mitch, whom she has lured into courting her. Mitch proposes marriage but jilts her when he discovers in her home town Blanche is practically a prostitute.Eliot Elisofon—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesCaption from LIFE. "We've had this date with each other from the beginning," says Stanley to Blanche. For weeks she has been insulting and trying to attract him. When his wife is in the hospital having a baby, Blanche hysterically attacks him with the top of a broken bottle. In a half-drunken fury, Stanley rapes her.Eliot Elisofon—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesCaption from LIFE. The drama ends when Blanche, clinging to her pitiful delusion that she is a grand lady, is pronounced insane, is led away by asylum attendants. Her sister and husband can now resume their happiness, proving Williams' thesis that healthy life can go on only after it is rid of unwholesome influence.Eliot Elisofon—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesJessica Tandy (center) playing in the Broadway production A Streetcar Named Desire.Eliot Elisofon—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesPlaywright Tennessee Williams sitting on theater set of his play, A Streetcar Named Desire.Eliot Elisofon—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
