For versatile singer Groban, opportunities keep knocking

TribLIVE: Josh Groban didn't spend a long time studying theater at Carnegie Mellon University, but the experience was hard to forget. “I was there for about six months,” he says. “It was a really tremendous class. CMU is one of the top musical theater programs in the country. We were all the lead roles in our respective high schools. My freshman class had Leslie Odom Jr., who just won the Tony for ‘Hamilton,' Josh Gad (‘Frozen,' ‘The Book of Mormon'), Rory O'Malley, who's in ‘Hamilton,' Katy Mixon, who's in ‘Eastbound & Down.' “That was our class. We were all these weird, wunderkind misfits. We were all bound for special things.