Rialto Chatter: TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) Eyes New York Run

The new British musical Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), which just recently extended its West End run by a further seven weeks at the Criterion Theatre, may have its sights set on a New York City run next.

According to Baz Bamigboye of Deadline, the musical is looking to transfer to either an Off-Broadway house or a  U.S. regional theater to "perhaps, test the waters" for Broadway. 

Read the original story on Deadline.

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The London run is now booking until 31 August after transferring to the Criterion Theatre on 4 April following a sold-out, extended run at Kiln Theatre. ​

Directed by Tim Jackson, written by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan and designed by Soutra Gilmour, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) marks Barne and Buchan’s West End debuts. Barne and Buchan won The Stage Debut Award and the Stiles & Drewe prize for new musical theatre for an earlier version of the musical titled The Season, co-produced by Royal & Derngate, Northampton and the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich.

With the music having clocked up millions of listens on streaming platforms, an 8 track EP is now available. Tracks include: ‘New York’, ‘Dad’, ‘What’ll It Be’, ‘This Is The Place’, ‘Be Happy’, ‘About To Go In’, ‘This Year’ and ‘If I Believed’. To mark the launch, Sam Tutty and Dujonna Gift performed a series of the songs at Abbey Road Studios to an invited audience, hosted by BBC Radio 1 DJ Vicky Hawkesworth.