Broadway<\/a> does best. This original musical taps into a universal truth and shows that at times the most random meetings can create family against all odds. It isn\u2019t just a story about two strangers, it is a story about all of us who long for connection. We can\u2019t wait for theatergoers across the country to come to the show as strangers and leave as friends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tThe tour announcement follows extended runs in Boston, London\u2019s West End, and Broadway, where the production recently scored eight Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical (Jim Barne & Kit Buchan), Best Original Score (Jim Barne & Kit Buchan), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Soutra Gilmour), Best Direction of a Musical (Tim Jackson), Best Orchestrations (Lux Pyramid), and, for stars Sam Tutty and Christiani Pitts, Best Leading Actor in a Musical and Best Leading Actress in a Musical, respectively.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe musical was named to Deadline\u2019s 10 Best Broadway Shows of 2025. <\/p>\n
\n\tThe synopsis: \u201cTwo Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) follows Dougal, an endlessly optimistic Brit visiting New York City for the wedding of the father he\u2019s never met, and Robin, the bride\u2019s sharp, no-nonsense sister. As they journey across the city, their differing perspectives give way to something unexpected. Bursting with laughter, escapism, and charm, this original musical is both a love letter to New York and a celebration of the joy in human connection.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe musical is produced on Broadway by Kevin McCollum, Tim Johanson, Glass Half Full Productions, and Jamie Wilson Productions. They are joined by producers Clemmie Forfar, Oliver Mackwood, Lucas McMahon, Evan McGill, Dennis Trunfio, Abrams Corr Riemer Productions, Marc David Levine & Stephen S. Miller, Laura Lonergan, James L. Nederlander, Michael Patrick & Paul Gavriani, Merrie L. Davis, Tony Spinosa & Barbara Gallay, Walport Productions, Agrawal & PBT, JKDNV Productions, Aleff & Nothing Ventured, Flatto Turchin, Pam & Stephen Della Pietra, Nicole Eisenberg, Willette & Manny Klausner, Liddell Shilaimon, John Voege, Cecilia Lin, Wanyue Jie, Kevin Shen, We Believe, The Transatlantic Alliance, IPN, Oki Wallace-Phoebe, Victoria Weinberg, and Laurie Tisch & Greg Field.<\/p>\n
\n\tAs with this week\u2019s other Broadway tour announcements, the Two Strangers tour was announced during the Broadway League\u2019s Spring Road Conference in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tony-nominated musical Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) will tour North America beginning in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[207,9,11,10,30427,26656],"class_list":["post-239794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-broadway","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-tony-awards","tag-two-strangers-carry-a-cake-across-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239794","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=239794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}