{"id":615802,"date":"2026-09-14T13:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/615802\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:12:12","slug":"sunday-in-the-park-with-george-canceled-after-ariana-grande-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/615802\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sunday in the Park With George’ Canceled After Ariana Grande Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe London revival of \u201cSunday in the Park With George\u201d has been canceled following the exits of stars Ariana Grande<\/a> and Jonathan Bailey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe planned 2027 production of \u2018Sunday in the Park with George\u2019 at the Barbican will no longer proceed as scheduled,\u201d a rep for producers Empire Street Productions tells Variety. \u201cEmpire Street Productions will retain the rights with a view to presenting the production in 2028. Further details will be announced in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe revival of Stephen Sondheim\u2019s beloved musical was set to debut at London\u2019s Barbican Centre next summer. The show was first announced in January<\/a>, offering \u201cWicked\u201d fans a rare opportunity to see two of the film\u2019s stars perform together live on stage.<\/p>\n

\n\tGrande was due to play both Dot and Marie while Bailey was billed to star opposite as George Seurat. The musical takes the name from the French artist\u2019s famous painting, \u201cA Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show first debuted in 1983 off Broafway and the last major revival was on Broadway in 2017, with Annaleigh Ashford and Jake Gyllenhaal in the leading roles.<\/p>\n

\n\tTickets for the London show were supposed to go on sale in May, but with producers anticipating enormours demand, this was pushed back to September<\/a> to coincide with the end of Grande\u2019s \u201cEternal Sunshine\u201d tour. Last month, however, Grande announced she would be \u201ctaking a step back from visibility\u201d<\/a> after the conclusion of the tour \u2014 which included exiting the London stage show \u2014 following \u201congoing public scrutiny\u201d of her health.<\/p>\n

\n\tBailey then announced earlier this month he too was dropping out<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tWith auditions for the show taking place this summer, fans had hoped producers might simply swap<\/a> in too equally well-known or seasoned stage performers for the parts of Dot\/Marie and George, especially after Bailey said in a statement: \u201cI so look forward to seeing what the two actors who will now take on these roles will create with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNow it looks like Bailey \u2013 and the fans \u2013 will have to wait a bit longer to see Sondheim\u2019s 1983 musical in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The London revival of \u201cSunday in the Park With George\u201d has been canceled following the exits of stars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3050,458,146,85,46,4348],"class_list":["post-615802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ariana-grande","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jonathan-bailey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}