Josh Groban’\”s Stage, Screen and Symphony tour makes its Finger Lakes stop at CMAC on Tuesday, August 18 — arriving just four days after the Saratoga engagement at SPAC earlier on this run. The format pairs Groban’\”s baritone with a full symphony orchestra for an evening drawn from his 2015 Broadway album Stages and his newly released Cinematic. The booking lands at a venue that has served as the summer home of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra since its 2007 rebuild — which makes the whole arrangement feel less like a promoter’\”s convenience and more like an institution hosting its own kind.
About Josh Groban
Groban’\”s career has always resisted easy categorization. He launched it under unusual circumstances — standing in for Andrea Bocelli at a 1999 Grammy Awards rehearsal, opposite Céline Dion, as a teenager — and went on to build a catalog that has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide without quite belonging to any single genre. Cinematic, his tenth studio album released May 8, 2026 on Reprise Records, is his first studio effort in more than five years and follows the template of Stages: a methodical approach to repertoire from another art form, this time cinema rather than Broadway. The tracklist moves from “As Time Goes By” (Casablanca) through Adele’\”s “Skyfall” to “Moon River” — broad in scope, deliberate in selection. Groban received a Tony Award nomination for his 2016 Broadway turn in Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 and returned to the stage for the 2023 Sweeney Todd revival, so when he describes approaching each film track “with a deep respect for their original impact,” it reads as a professional observation, not a press release.
About the Venue
CMAC opened in its current form in 2007, the result of a 3.5 million rebuild of the original Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center that had occupied this site since 1983. Located on the Finger Lakes Community College campus in the Town of Hopewell — roughly 30 minutes southeast of Rochester — it holds 15,000 in total: 5,000 under the covered pavilion and 10,000 on the hillside lawn, with large video screens flanking the stage. The Rochester Philharmonic claims it as their summer home every season. In that context, a touring symphony production is simply the room doing what it was designed to do. The Rochester / Finger Lakes region has no better outdoor amphitheater for this kind of evening.
Tickets & Pricing
Presale begins Tuesday at 10:00 AM local time; general public on-sale opens Friday at 10:00 AM. VIP packages are available and include premium seating, pre-show lounge access with refreshments, an exclusive acoustic performance with Q&A, a group photo opportunity, and an exclusive YETI wine tumbler. Doors open approximately 60–90 minutes before the 7:00 PM showtime. Tickets are available via Ticketmaster.