{"id":800986,"date":"2026-08-03T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800986\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:55:09","slug":"ariana-grande-exits-west-ends-sunday-in-the-park-with-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800986\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Exits West End&#8217;s &#8216;Sunday in the Park with George&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/west-end\/\" id=\"auto-tag_west-end\" data-tag=\"west-end\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West End<\/a> stage will have to wait a little longer for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ariana-grande\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ariana-grande\" data-tag=\"ariana-grande\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2018s debut as she exits next summer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sunday-in-the-park-with-george\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sunday-in-the-park-with-george\" data-tag=\"sunday-in-the-park-with-george\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday in the Park with George<\/a> revival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs the 3x Grammy winner wraps up her Eternal Sunshine Tour this summer, Deadline can confirm that she is following it up with a \u201cmuch-deserved break\u201d and will not appear in the Marianne Elliott-directed Stephen Sondheim musical, in which she was supposed to reunite with Wicked co-star Jonathan Bailey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cAriana will be taking a step back from visibility after she completes the Eternal Sunshine Tour,\u201d a rep for Grande tells Deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cShe looks forward to finishing the tour and ending it on a high note, both healthily and happily and then taking a much-deserved break from public facing work and appearances which has lead to endless, ongoing public scrutiny. This tour has been a beautiful experience for her. She loves her fans and has loved every minute of this tour so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe announcement comes after Grande released the music video for \u201cPetal\u201d, the title single from her newly released eighth studio album, sparking speculation about her physical health. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPart of Grande\u2019s break includes Sunday in the Park, but a source noted she \u201ccannot wait to support the brilliant team bringing this project to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLast December, Deadline\u2019s Baz Bamigboye reported that Grande and Bailey were <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/ariana-grande-jonathan-bailey-sunday-in-the-park-with-george-1236649423\/\">thinking of re-teaming<\/a> on a production of Sunday in the Park with George, with Empire Street Productions and London\u2019s Barbican Centre confirming the next month that they\u2019d be <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/07\/jonathan-bailey-ariana-grande-stephen-sondheim-1236682640\/\">staging the musical<\/a> with the pair, set for a summer 2027 opening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe show\u2019s producers were previously <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/07\/jonathan-bailey-ariana-grande-stephen-sondheim-1236682640\/\">holding off on ticket sales<\/a> until after Grande\u2019s tour concludes on Sept. 1 at London\u2019s O2 Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLast month, Deadline confirmed that Grande will no longer appear in Season 13 of American Horror Story due to scheduling conficts with the 41-show tour that kicked off June 6 in Oakland, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The West End stage will have to wait a little longer for Ariana Grande\u2018s debut as she exits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[12875,236,88,195976,147582],"class_list":["post-800986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ariana-grande","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-sunday-in-the-park-with-george","tag-west-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}