Ariana Grande is ready to trade in her pop stardom for something more magical.

On Wednesday, November 6, in a sincere conversation with her Wicked co-star Bowen Yang in the The Bodybuilders On the podcast, which she hosts alongside Matt Rogers, the 31-year-old pop superstar revealed that she is seriously considering a change of focus: from pop music to musical theater.

“It’s my heart”, 7 rings the hitmaker confessed after playing Glinda, the Good Witch, in Universal’s highly anticipated film adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical.

“I’m going to say something so scary, it’s going to scare the hell out of my fans and everyone, but I love you, you’re going to accept it, and we’re going to be here forever,” he continued. “I’m always going to make music; I’m always going to go on stage; I’m always going to do pop stuff, I promise.”

“But I don’t think doing it at the pace I’ve been doing it for the last 10 years is what I see in the next 10 years,” he said. Thanks, Next The singer explained that her renewed love for musical theater might take her away from pop music a bit.

It is pertinent to note that before Grande first rose to fame as Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeon comedy. Victoriousshe was a theater kid in 13: The musical.

“Reconnecting with the part of me that started in musical theater, that loves comedy and that finds joy in doing that, heals me. Finding roles that allow me to use these parts of myself, put them in little homes and characters and fragments, voices and songs, it’s been very rewarding,” Grande said, calling her return to her roots in musical theater a healing experience.

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