Ariana Grande will reunite with ‘Wicked’ costar Jonathan Bailey for ‘Sunday in the Park with George’


By Lisa Respers France, NCS

(NCS) — “Wicked” stars Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey are teaming up once more.

The duo will star in a brand new stage manufacturing of Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical, “Sunday In The Park With George,” in accordance with an announcement made on social media Wednesday.

The musical will debut in summer season 2027 at London’s Barbican Centre. It is about to be directed by Marianne Elliott and have the work of award profitable costume designer Tom Scutt.

Earlier on Wednesday, Grande and Bailey jointly posted a photo of themselves on Instagram sitting in entrance of Georges Seurat’s well-known portray “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.”

That masterpiece, painted from 1884 to 1886, was the inspiration for the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Sunday in the Park with George” and there’s a report that Grande and Bailey will star in a London revival of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine hit.

Deadline reported completely final month that the revival was in the early levels of planning.

“All it has to be is good,” Bailey wrote in the caption of their Instagram photograph, a key line from the musical, which revolves round Seurat creating his portray, additional convincing folks that the pair are set to work collectively once more in the West End manufacturing.

The authentic manufacturing of the play opened off Broadway in 1983 starring Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin earlier than transferring to Broadway the following yr.

It gained the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1985 and in addition snagged two Tony Awards.

NCS has reached out to representatives for Grande and Bailey for remark.

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