Depraved followers must be excited to study that Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey are reuniting for an additional musical collaboration. The pop star and Bridgerton actor discovered a brand new sort of fame in the previous couple of years, main the two-part cinematic adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical Depraved alongside Oscar nominee and Tony winner Cynthia Erivo.
Erivo and Grande are the co-protagonists of Depraved, portraying Elphaba/The Depraved Witch of the West and Glinda the Good, respectively, whereas Bailey performs Fiyero, a prince who results in a love triangle with the 2 witches. After getting to indicate off their musical chops on such an enormous stage, Grande and Bailey are engaged on one other award-winning musical.
Per Deadline, Grande and Bailey “are in early planning phases to reunite” for a revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday within the Park With George. The present’s music and lyrics had been written by Stephen Sondheim, and the e book by James Lapine. The revival would tentatively open at London’s Barbican Theatre in 2027, directed by multi-Tony and Laurence Olivier winner Marianne Elliott.
Initially premiering on Broadway in 1984, Sunday within the Park with George is impressed by Georges Seurat’s portray A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, following a fictionalized model of the artist as he creates his masterpiece, with characters who’re the folks within the portray. The story additionally considerations George’s great-grandson (additionally George), one other tortured artist.
Bailey and Grande presumably could be the 2 leads, George and his lover Dot, who had been initially performed by Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters, respectively, on Broadway. Deadline‘s Baz Bamigboye studies that “all concerned are understood to be ‘cautiously optimistic’ that the present will go on with Grande and Bailey,” who “excelled within the components […] at early read-throughs.“
Bailey can be reuniting with Elliot, as she directed the 2018 gender-swapped manufacturing of the musical Firm for which Bailey received an Olivier Award. Bailey has been performing in musicals and performs on stage since childhood, lengthy earlier than changing into identified for on-screen roles together with Bridgerton, Fellow Vacationers, and Jurassic World Rebirth.
Grande began her profession on the stage, starring within the Broadway present 13 when she was a young person, earlier than touchdown her iconic function of Cat Valentine in Nickelodeon’s Victorious, reprising it for the spinoff Sam & Cat. From there, Grande went on to pursue a music profession whereas taking up some small comedic roles and recurrently showing on Saturday Night time Reside.
However Grande actually made her mark as a severe actor along with her Oscar-nominated flip in Depraved. With a number of collaborators reuniting for such an acclaimed present, Sunday within the Park With George will entice lots of consideration when it opens, and the expertise of Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, and Marianne Elliott makes it extraordinarily promising as a murals.
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- Birthdate
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June 26, 1993
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Boca Raton, Florida, USA
- Top
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5 ft 0 inches
- Notable Tasks
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Do not Look Up
- Professions
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Singer, Actress
Uncover the newest information and filmography for Ariana Grande, identified for Victorious and Sam & Cat.
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- Birthdate
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April 25, 1988
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
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Bridgerton, Crashing, Fellow Vacationers
