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With seven studio albums and two Grammys, Ariana Grande has gained considerable success in her musical career. However, when the singer-songwriter started working in her teens, the first professional gig she received was in a Broadway musical show.
In 2008, Ari was cast as Charlotte, the cheerleader, in the Broadway production of 13: The Musical. Based on a Robert Horn book, with the music and lyrics composed by Jason Robert Brown, it opened in New York's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on October 5, 2008.
The musical followed the story of Evan Goldman, a 12-year-old Jewish boy brought up in New York, who moved to Indiana right before his bar mitzvah, in the aftermath of his parents' divorce. The Positions singer was 15 when she started working in the musical.
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Ariana Grande's 13: The Musical tells the story of Evan Goldman's bar mitzvah
The plot of Ariana Grande's 13: The Musical revolves around a New Yorker teenager, Evan Goldman, who has grown up with a idea of bar mitzvah making boys a man.
However, soon before his own bar mitzvah - on his 13th birthday - Goldman's parents split up, and he moves to Appleton, Indiana, with his mother. In Appleton, Patrice, a neighbour, is the first girl Evan meets as she shows him around the town, developing a crush on him in the process.
On starting school, Goldman meets Brett Sampson and his sidekicks, Eddie and Malcolm. Goldman soon realizes that Sampson is the most popular guy in the school and determines that he has to get him to attend his bar mitzvah party to make it amazing. He helps Brett get close with Kendra, another of their classmates, to win his friendship.
As things start to seem promising for Evan's big party, Patrice tells him that everyone at school thinks her to be "uncool" and that she might not come if she's also a guest. Evan makes light of it but realizes it to be true as soon as he hands out the invitations. Seeing the invitation rejected, Patrice is upset and ends up tearing her own.
The excitement for Goldman's party starts buzzing, when Archie - a kid with muscular dystrophy - enters the scene. Archie is a close friend of Patrice and admonishes Evan for humiliating her.
He confesses to Goldman his feelings for Kendra, who is going out with Brett. In exchange of helping her get Kendra, Archie promises to help him make it up to Patrice. When that doesn't work, he threatens to ruin Goldman's bar mitzvah party.
With Archie's help, Evan also convinces his mother to get his friends tickets to an R-rated movie, which was on Brett's insistence. Chaos ensues at the movies, with Brett and Archie ending up kissing each other in confusion, Kendra and Brett breaking up, and Patrice, whom Evan had invited as a date, leaving him alone for not sitting next to him.
Towards the end, being fed up of Brett's behavior, Evan stands up to him, admitting that only Archie and Patrice have been true friends to him all along. While it gives him some clarity, Evan realizes that no one except the two will come to his bar mitzvah party and plans to cancel it.
That's when Patrice and Archie stop him, pointing out that it won't be that bad. Patrice and Evan share a surprising kiss, and the party eventually happens. By the end, Goldman begins to understand that this is what growing up means.
While Ariana Grande didn't play a character that was central to the plot of the Broadway show, it still gave her exposure in the entertainment industry, leading her to her next acting gig on the TV.
A year after her musical, Ariana Grande was cast as Cat Valentine on a Nickelodeon sitcom show, Victorious.
Elizabeth Gillies, who played Lucy alongside Grande on the musical, was also cast in it. Ari worked on the show for three season, after which she released her debut studio album. She was also cast in a spin-off series, Sam & Cat, with Jennette McCurdy, which ran for one season.
In 2022, Ariana Grande was cast in the movie adaption of the famous musical, Wicked
Director Jon M. Chu approach Ariana Grande for playing Glinda, the good witch, in his upcoming movie adaptation of the musical, Wicked, in 2022. Grande has been working on the movie's production throughout 2023, with the movie set to release on the box office this November.
The movie is a two-part production, with Ariana Grande also starring in the second one, slated for 2025, alongside Cynthia Erivo.
