Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey Hint at ‘Sunday in the Park With George’ Revival

Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey appear to be inching closer to confirming a long-rumored revival of Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical Sunday in the Park With George.

On Wednesday morning, the two actors — who recently starred together in the Wicked films — shared a joint Instagram post that immediately set theater fans buzzing. The photo shows Grande and Bailey seated in front of Georges Seurat’s iconic painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, the artwork that directly inspired Sondheim’s musical. Bailey captioned the image with the line, “All it has to be is good,” a clear lyric from the show’s title song.

While neither star explicitly confirmed the project, the post strongly echoes a report published last month by Deadline, which stated that Grande and Bailey were in talks to lead a revival of Sunday in the Park With George.

The Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical originally premiered in 1984, with Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters in the lead roles. Told in two acts, the show follows George, a fictionalized version of painter Georges Seurat, as he struggles to complete his masterpiece with the help of his muse, Dot. The second act jumps forward a century, focusing on George’s great-grandson — also named George — a modern artist grappling with legacy, creativity, and connection.

The most recent major revival opened on Broadway in 2017, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford, and was widely praised for reintroducing the emotionally rich musical to a new generation of theatergoers.

According to Deadline, the new revival is expected to open in 2027 at London’s Barbican Theatre, though an official announcement has not yet been made.

Grande and Bailey have built strong chemistry after starring as Glinda and Fiyero in Jon M. Chu’s two-part Wicked film adaptation. Adding fuel to the speculation, Grande recently teased an upcoming project during an interview with Variety, hinting that something meaningful was on the horizon.

“I can’t say much yet, but it’s something that inspires me deeply,” she said. “It contains multitudes.”

For fans of Sondheim — and of Grande and Bailey — this may be the clearest sign yet that a major stage revival is quietly coming into focus.