This may be some of the best news of the New Year so far: Wicked may be over, but Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey aren’t done working together just yet. After months of rumours, it seems that the pair really are officially set to reunite this summer in a musical in London – and we are completely obsessulated.
Bailey shared the news with an Instagram post on 14 January that showed him and Grande sitting in front of Georges Seurat’s 1884 painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” at the Art Institute of Chicago. The post seemingly confirms the reports that Bailey and Grande are set to star in a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sunday in the Park With George at London’s Barbican next summer.
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Last month, Deadline first reported the news that Bailey and Grande were in “early talks” to star in the musical at London’s Barbican Theatre in the summer of 2027. Three-time Tony Award winner and director of The Salt Path Marianne Elliott is reportedly in talks to direct.
The musical follows the making of the famous painting as Georges Seurat, a tortured pointillist painter, finds himself torn between his art and his lover Dot.
For Sondheim fans out there, yes, this means we will get to hear Bailey’s rendition of “Finishing the Hat” and Grande’s version of “Move On.”
The musical premiered in 1983 starring Mandy Patinkin as Georges and Bernadette Peters as Dot. It has been revived a number of times, most recently on Broadway in 2017 with Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford taking on the leading roles.
Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey starred as Glinda and Fiyero in Wicked. “I feel like we were both very theatre children in the room,” Grande told People of their working relationship.
“I mean incessant,” Bailey chimed in.
“And we were very giggly together. That was the tough thing with us. We were the giggliest pair,” Grande added. “It carbonated our chemistry.”
“It gave us fizz,” Bailey said.
Grande also shared that they fell for each other “as friends in real life, too. That was such a beautiful part of it. We had the most beautiful time.”
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