"Hardcore musical theatre nerds may remember that in 2020 we were due to get a transfer of the Jake Gyllenhaal-starring Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's 1984 classic Sunday in the Park with George. If you're unfamiliar, it's a typically virtuosic work by the late genius that was inspired by the pointillist painter Georges Seurat's work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, and follows a fictionalised version of the artist plus - years later - his cynical great grandson."
"Long story short, if the Gyllenhaal version hadn't got gazumped by the pandemic it's unlikely that Sunday in the Park with George would come back around so soon. But it did, and so the coast is clear for Wicked lovers Jonathan Bailey and Ariana Grande to reunite as leads of a fresh production directed by Marianne Elliott, with design by Tom Scutt, that'll run at the Barbican... next summer."
"As possibly the most musical theatre thing to have ever happened it's clearly going to be enormously popular - one can imagine Americans might try and get involved - so while there's a long time until it runs, you can mark May this year in your diaries is the time tickets go on sale (and they probably won't stick around long)."
Jake Gyllenhaal's planned 2020 transfer of Sunday in the Park with George was cancelled by the pandemic, delaying that revival. The Gyllenhaal version not transferring freed scheduling for a new casting. Jonathan Bailey and Ariana Grande will reunite as leads in a fresh production directed by Marianne Elliott, with design by Tom Scutt, at the Barbican Centre. Marianne Elliott previously directed Bailey in the 2018 Company revival. Ariana Grande will make a major stage return as a star following earlier US stage appearances. The run is scheduled for summer 2027 and tickets go on sale in May 2026.
Read at Time Out London
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