Barbican Centre
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Sep 11, 2026
Matthew BlunderfieldHOST
It's great to see so many people out on such a beautiful summer's evening.
Matthew BlunderfieldHOST
I'm Matthew Blunderfield, the producer of the Architecture Foundation, and this is a special installment of our Architecture on Stage series here at the Barbican, where we're recording an episode of Scaffold, the AF's podcast, with my guest tonight, John Tuomey.
Matthew BlunderfieldHOST
Tuomey needs little introduction in this room, so I'll keep this short.
Matthew BlunderfieldHOST
He was born in Tralee in 1954, grew up in Dundalk, studied architecture at UCD, and on graduating, went on to London to work at James Stirling's.
Julia AntinozziGUEST
If you're in London, you should go.
Reid BartelmeHOST
Yeah, come to see Pastoral at the Barbican Center, October 1st, 2nd, 3rd.
Julia AntinozziGUEST
Yeah, that one really was special.
Julia AntinozziGUEST
I will be there,
NatalieHOST
Obviously, the big news this week has been Sunday in the Park with George.
NatalieHOST
So for those people who don't know, about a year ago, post-Wicked 2, Jonathan Bailey and Ariana Grande came out and they said that they were going to do a version of Sunday in the Park with George at the Barbican in London.
NatalieHOST
It was a huge, huge deal.
NatalieHOST
It's a show that they both talked about.
NatalieHOST
Then a couple of weeks ago, Ariana pulled out.
NatalieHOST
And then this week, Jonathan Bailey pulled out.
NatalieHOST
and it's been quite a big issue and I suppose one of the main reasons people have problems with it I don't think tickets are out yet so no one's bought any tickets but a lot of people got Barbican memberships so that they could then get tickets early when they did come out and so now obviously those people have got these memberships they probably would have got if this if this wasn't happening There has been no other casting that we know of for the show.
NatalieHOST
I have really enjoyed on TikTok people being like, I'm going to be in Sunday in the Park with George.
Vaughan ArnellGUEST
So we couldn't use Piccadilly Square.
Vaughan ArnellGUEST
We, um, we did it in the Barbican.
LucyHOST
Yeah.
MattHOST
Yeah.
MattHOST
Yeah.
Vaughan ArnellGUEST
Yeah.
LucyHOST
I actually lived in the Barbican when you filmed-
Vaughan ArnellGUEST
Oh, did you?
Joaquin Pedro ValdesGUEST
It was absolutely bonkers.
Joaquin Pedro ValdesGUEST
And now it's running at the Barbican.
Joaquin Pedro ValdesGUEST
It has a big following now.
Joaquin Pedro ValdesGUEST
It's pretty cool.
Jackie MaroneyHOST
I'm gonna get into that, but first I wanna get into another piece of Broadway news that happened while I was away that I think has, like, a lot of layers to it and is really interesting, and that is both Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey pulling out of the London production of Sunday in the Park with George, which was supposed to come to the West End summer 2027.
Jackie MaroneyHOST
It was supposed to be at the Barbican Theatre in London.
Jackie MaroneyHOST
And so getting into this first story, I guess to catch you guys up, it was announced that Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey were going to star as Dot/Marie and George in Sunday in the Park with George in summer 2027, and this was a huge deal for so many reasons.
Jackie MaroneyHOST
First off, Ariana Grande is so fricking famous.
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Jackie MaroneyHOST
I'm sorry.
Jackie MaroneyHOST
And so yeah, now that there have been names thrown around, nothing has really been set in stone.
Jackie MaroneyHOST
I think there's now kind of a big question of, like, is this production still happening? As of right now, the Barbican's official website still says summer 2027, that Marianne Elliott is still the director, casting discussions are actively underway, and that they're reshaping the show under a new company.
Jackie MaroneyHOST
So we shall see.
Gaz MayallGUEST
Gordon McHarghy, you probably have met, the king of the cutouts, Canadian guy.
Gaz MayallGUEST
He curates a lot of the big exhibitions, like the Barbican one, for instance.
Gaz MayallGUEST
But Alex Collishaw, he's down there all the time in the studios, but slowly going through boxes and boxes and boxes and kind of noting absolutely every single thing in there.
Gaz MayallGUEST
Exhausted thinking about that.
Mimma ViglezioGUEST
I was working with him.
Mimma ViglezioGUEST
We couldn't even have the Barbican.
Mimma ViglezioGUEST
The day he dies, then he has everything.
Mimma ViglezioGUEST
But anyway, so not when he's alive and not right now.
Muyiwa OkiGUEST
in the world and why? It's a hard question and I fluctuate between buildings.
Muyiwa OkiGUEST
Currently, I'm saying the Barbican just because it's stood the test of time and it's a big community space and it hasn't really lost its edge.
Muyiwa OkiGUEST
What's the most overrated trend in architecture right now? Not probably right now, but just generally, is that the drawing or the render is the end state.
Muyiwa OkiGUEST
I think the building is.
Oonagh MurphyGUEST
Um, so a few years ago, um, I ran a, a series called Curator, Computer, Creator.
Oonagh MurphyGUEST
And these events, we held one at the Barbican in London and one at Cooper Hewitt in, uh, New York, and we invited members of the public into a conversation about what AI might mean for their own lives.
Oonagh MurphyGUEST
And so the event we held in the Barbican, for example, was called The Long Table, and it's kind of a fac- facilitation format.
Oonagh MurphyGUEST
You have a long table, you have chairs around it.
Oonagh MurphyGUEST
We had it in a public space.
Oonagh MurphyGUEST
... or you can join the conversation.
Oonagh MurphyGUEST
And so we had this conversation that went on for about four hours, with different experts come, different members of the public come.
Oonagh MurphyGUEST
People were at the Barbican to see an exhibition or to see a show or to grab coffee with a friend.
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