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- 13 reunion! Ariana Grande, Allie Trimm and Aaron Simon Gross reunited practically 20 years after starring within the 2008 Broadway musical
- The trio got here collectively at a New York Metropolis screening of Depraved: For Good attended by the Broadway and touring casts
- Grande, who stars as Glinda within the movie, embraced her former costars as they reminisced and posed for images
They are not 13 anymore!
Almost twenty years after starring collectively within the short-lived 2008 Broadway musical 13, Ariana Grande, Allie Trimm and Aaron Simon Gross got here again collectively on Monday, Oct. 28, for a really big day.
The three actors — who had been teenagers themselves once they led the Jason Robert Brown stage present — reunited at a particular screening of Depraved: For Good, held in New York Metropolis for members of the Broadway and touring corporations of Depraved.
ipromiseyoumedia captured the candy second because the trio hugged, reminisced and posed for a sequence of images in entrance of paintings for the movie.
Grande, 32, and Trimm, 31, noticed each other first, every flashing big smiles as they hugged. Although Trimm wore Elphaba inexperienced, she’s presently starring in Depraved‘s Broadway manufacturing as Glinda — the function Grande has made well-known on display.
After posing for a photograph with Lencia Kebede (who’s truly enjoying Elphaba on Broadway now), Grande and Trimm caught up extra. The 2 then waved Gross over to hitch them, the actor beaming with pleasure as he hugged his former costars.
After all, it isn’t unusual for Grande and Gross, 32, to spend time collectively. The 2 have been buddies since earlier than 13, assembly as kids rising up collectively in Boca Raton, Florida. They nonetheless stay an energetic presence in each other’s lives, Grande bringing Gross as a visitor to Monday’s screening.
13 ran for simply 22 preview and 105 common performances on Broadway, opening on Oct. 5, 2008 and shutting on Jan. 4, 2009.
The unique musical — with a e-book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn — adopted a bunch of buddies rising up in small-town Indiana by the eyes of a newcomer Evan Goldman, who moved there from New York Metropolis after his mother and father’ divorce (and months earlier than his Bar Mitzvah).
Although its time on Broadway was short-lived, 13 nonetheless made historical past, as the primary (and nonetheless solely) musical to function an all-teen forged and all-teen band. Different stars in its manufacturing included Graham Phillips (The Good Spouse), Brynn Williams (SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical) and Grande’s future Victorious costar, Liz Gillies.
Within the years since closing, the musical has change into a fan favourite, its fashionable authentic forged recording propelling songs from Brown’s pop-infused rating — like “The Lamest Place within the World,” “What It Means to Be a Pal,” “If That is What It Is,” “A Little Extra Homework” and “Model New You” — into showtune staples.
The musical stays probably the most produced throughout excessive colleges nationwide.
Netflix, in 2022, launched a movie adaptation of 13, starring Eli Golden, Josh Peck, Debra Messing, Peter Hermann and Rhea Perlman. The movie was celebrated on-line by most of the members of 13‘s authentic Broadway forged.
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That very same camaraderie and appreciation between stage and display stars was alive on the Depraved: For Good screening on Monday evening.
The movie’s director Jon M. Chu kicked that off, taking the stage earlier than the screening to thank these from the unique artistic workforce in attendance, together with e-book author Winnie Holzman, composer Stephen Schwartz, musical director Stephen Oremus, producers Marc Platt and David Stone, and even Gregory Maguire, who wrote the novel off of which Depraved relies.
Grande joined him.
“This was performed with a lot love and respect for all of you who’ve performed, and nonetheless do, eight exhibits every week of this,” she stated. “We love you, we share this with you. You are part of this. It is an honor to be right here and share it with you first. I am so excited and grateful.”
“It’s as a lot an providing because the final one is to you, to this legacy, to this present and to your whole performances through the years,” Cynthia Erivo added, in a video message. “I hope you can be as happy with it as I’m.”
Depraved: For Good is in theaters Nov. 21.
Tickets to Depraved, on the Gershwin Theatre, at the moment are on sale.