Grande, Bailey to Star in Sunday in the Park Revival

Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey, fresh from their roles in the Wicked film adaptation, have confirmed they will star together in a revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, set to open in London's West End in 2027.

The actors shared the news on January 14 through a joint Instagram post featuring a photo of them seated in front of Georges Seurat's iconic 1884 painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, at the Art Institute of Chicago. The image, which inspired the musical, shows the pair gazing at each other amid the artwork's depiction of Parisians relaxing in a park along the Seine. Bailey captioned the post with a line from the show's title song: "All it has to be is good."

In the production, Bailey will portray George, a fictionalized version of Seurat, the pointillist painter obsessed with completing his masterpiece, while Grande will play Dot, his muse and lover. The story unfolds in two acts: the first explores the artist's creative struggles and personal sacrifices in 1880s France, and the second shifts to the 20th century, following George's great-grandson, a modern artist grappling...