What’s Next for Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo After Wicked: For Good?

Though the two leading women of director Jon M. Chu‘s two-part Wicked adaptation may be leaving Glinda and Elphaba behind after For Good broke box office records this past weekend, the acclaimed actresses and singers have plenty in the works.

Grande, 32, will take to the big screen again in just under one year in Focker In-Law, the fourth movie in Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro‘s Meet the Parents franchise. Grande joined the film’s cast in May and shared on Instagram that she completed filming on Oct. 31. The movie is expected to release Nov. 25, 2026, and Grande said in a recent interview with the Today show that acting is “currently what I’m most inspired by.” 

“I’ll still sing, I promise. But yes, right now, that’s currently where I’m at,” she said at the time. Beginning in June 2026, Grande will tour in promotion of her 2024 album Eternal Sunshine, but she told Amy Poehler during an appearance on Poehler’s podcast Good Hang on Nov. 18 that touring “might not happen again for a long, long, long, long time.” 

Erivo, meanwhile, will return to London in 2026 to perform in a one-woman stage adaptation of Dracula between Feb. 4 and May 31. She will play all 23 characters in the adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 vampire novel, as Deadline reported in May. 

Erivo also has several upcoming big screen roles in the works, including two movies expected to release in 2027. She will costar with Idris Elba, Viola Davis, Damson Idris and Chiwetel Ejiofor in an adaptation of author Tomi Adeyemi’s 2018 novel Children of Blood and Bone. Erivo also has a voice acting role in an upcoming animated film titled Bad Fairies, as The Hollywood Reporter reported on Oct. 9, and she will star in a movie adaptation of the play Prima Facie; Variety reported on Nov. 5 that the movie has finished filming in London.

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Of course, both women will likely prove a force to be reckoned with throughout the upcoming awards season. Erivo received a Best Actress nomination at the 2025 Oscars in March for her Wicked performance, and Grande was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the ceremony, though neither took home a trophy. Wicked received 10 total nominations at last year’s Academy Awards, and the sequel expects to factor into this year’s awards season too.

Grande also pointed out that the movie and their characters will live on in her and Erivo’s hearts during a recent panel about the movie. “We’re not saying goodbye to anything. These characters will be a part of our hearts always,” Grande said, in a video she uploaded to Instagram on Sunday, Nov. 16. “They’ve changed our lives irrevocably and permanently, and I’m so grateful for that.” 

Wicked: For Good is in theaters now.