{"id":118749,"date":"2024-11-07T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/07\/ariana-grande-wants-to-focus-on-musical-theater-scale-back-pop-music-career\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T00:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T00:01:12","slug":"ariana-grande-wants-to-focus-on-musical-theater-scale-back-pop-music-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/07\/ariana-grande-wants-to-focus-on-musical-theater-scale-back-pop-music-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande wants to focus on musical theater, scale back pop music career"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-06\/Getty_ArianaGrande_071723.png\" alt><figcaption>David Crotty\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Ariana Grande<\/strong> wants to make a pivot back to musical theater.<\/p>\n<p>While guesting on the latest episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-kHeeMDzmZM\"><em>Las Culturistas<\/em><\/a> podcast, the pop star said she hopes to return to Broadway some day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is my heart,&#8221; Ariana said, before revealing she wants to make a career pivot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m gonna say something so scary \u2014 it\u2019s gonna scare the absolute s*** out of my fans and everyone, but I love them, and they\u2019ll deal, and we\u2019ll be here forever,\u201d Ariana said. \u201cI\u2019m always going to make music, I\u2019m always going to go on stage, I\u2019m always going to do pop stuff, I pinky promise. But I don\u2019t think doing it at the rate I\u2019ve been doing it for the past 10 years is where I see the next 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ariana continued by saying she wants to focus on her love of musical theater.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReconnecting with this part of myself who started in musical theater, and who loves comedy, and it heals me to do that \u2014 finding roles to use these parts of myself and put them in little homes and characters and bits and voices and songs,\u201d Ariana said. \u201cWhatever makes sense, or whatever roles we see fit, or where I could really do a good job or honor the material, I would really love to. I think it\u2019s a lot better for me. I\u2019m getting emotional.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-kHeeMDzmZM?si=2tLU6pJRrLP-tBs9\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Crotty\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Ariana Grande wants to make a pivot back to musical theater. 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