\n\tThe charmingly titled \u201cTwo Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)\u201d follows Dougal, who flies to the city to attend his estranged father\u2019s wedding. He is greeted at the airport by Robin, a native New Yorker who is the bride\u2019s sister.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tTutty, 27, has starred as Dougal since the show\u2019s off-West End run, in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt was meant to be a six-week gig in a lovely theater called The Kiln in North London, in Kilburn,\u201d he recalls. \u201cAnd it just continuously blossomed and evolved into eventually what we know it to be today.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHe first learned of the musical in a \u201cvery boring way,\u201d via an email to his agents. Immediately the challenge of doing a two-hander grabbed him.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThere was literally never going to be another person on stage other than Dougal and\/or Robin. And I think that the notion of that was sort of quite alien to me,\u201d Tutty says. \u201cI really wanted to just dive into the harsh reality of that. And the fact that it\u2019s really hard to understand the humor on the page, I was really interested to see where I was going to hypothetically pitch it and where it was going to go and end up.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tChristian Pitts and Sam Tutty in \u201cTwo Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)\u201d at the Longacre Theatre.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatthew Murphy\/Courtesy of Two Strangers<\/p>\n
\n\tThings don\u2019t go as planned for Dougal pretty much from the moment he arrives in New York, and Tutty\u2019s performance has the audience rooting for him through every song and scene.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s just unashamed energy of him being himself,\u201d he says of his character. \u201cThe thing I love about the show the most is that it\u2019s just two people, two flawed human beings that you could pass on the street every day. And so to play that, just to play the stillness in a human and to play the stillness in a flawed character is really, really fun. To be still and to not have to become a particular nuance or specific character that everybody knows, like my choices are my own, that\u2019s really exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tTutty first found himself drawn to theater while at school, when he realized he was both getting good grades in drama \u201cand having a lot of fun with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAnd then I realized, \u2018oh, this could be a job,\u2019\u201d he adds. He then began the process of auditioning, a demoralizing journey for many but one that proved to him that theater really was \u201csomething I wanted to commit my life to. And fortunately the industry thought the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cTwo Strangers\u201d is decidedly a very New York play, and Tutty has felt the difference in performing for New York audiences after years in other cities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe did an open dress where we had a few invited guests come in who have had either familiar New York experiences or are themselves New Yorkers inherently, and they really made me realize that there are so many more jokes written into the text than even I knew. Any other audience that was seeing it, either they\u2019re not really from New York or they don\u2019t understand the humor of that joke. And it was really, really fun to uncover the final layer of this show,\u201d he says. \u201cThis show feels like it belongs where it is now, which is home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Tutty arrived in New York in early October, unaware he was in for a rather rude weather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[207,60106,9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-143150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-broadway","9":"tag-eye-interview","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}