The actors behind Glinda and Fiyero will take the London stage in a new production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Sunday in the Park With George.”

Wicked costars Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey to reunite in new musical project

The actors behind Glinda and Fiyero will take the London stage in a new production of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park With George."

By Wesley Stenzel

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- *Wicked* actors Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey will reunite in a new production of *Sunday in the Park With George*.

- The musical will hit London's Barbican Centre in London in summer 2027.

- Marianne Elliott is directing the production, and Tom Scutt is contributing designs.

Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey are hitting the stage together.

The *Wicked* costars, who played Glinda and Fiyero in the hit musical duology, will co-headline a new production of Stephen Sondheim's beloved musical *Sunday in the Park With George* in summer 2027.

The production will run at the Barbican Centre in London and feature direction from Marianne Elliott and design from Tom Scutt.

Jonathan Bailey and Ariana Grande in 'Wicked: For Good'.

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The play will mark the latest in a series of collaborations between Bailey and Elliott. The duo previously worked together on the London stage in a 2018 gender-swapped revival of Sondheim's *Company*, for which Bailey won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his turn as Jamie. Elliott and the *Bridgerton* star also collaborated for the 2022 West End revival of Mike Bartlett's play *Cock*.

*Sunday in the Park With George* debuted with an Off-Broadway production starring Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters in 1983. The musical, which features songs by Sondheim and a book by James Lapine, is inspired by Georges Seurat's 1880s pointillist painting *A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte*.

Jonathan Bailey and Ariana Grande in 'Wicked: For Good'.

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The first act of the musical revolves around Seurat and his mistress Dot, while the second act uses the same lead actors to portray two of their relatives, George and Marie. The musical premiered on Broadway in April 1984 with Patinkin and Peters in the lead roles. It ran for 18 months before closing in October 1985.

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A new production of the show hit the London stage in 1990, and a revival brought *Sunday *back to the city in 2005. The musical was subsequently revived on Broadway in 2008 and again in 2017, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford playing the lead roles in the latter production.

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Grande will embark on her *Eternal Sunshine* Tour in June. On screen, she will next appear in the 13th season of *American Horror Story*, which will premiere near Halloween on FX. She'll return to the big screen shortly thereafter in the fourth *Meet the Parents* movie, which hits theaters on Nov. 25. She's also reuniting with *Wicked* filmmaker Jon M. Chu on an animated musical adaptation of Dr. Seuss' *Oh the Places You'll Go*.**

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