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Call_me_jorge said: "They also claim they’re a contributor to this very site. I have no idea if that true, but literally anyone can be a contributor to broadwayworld."

I don't have any strong feelings about the guy but it's a little odd to claim you don't know if it's true when their posts include links in same place they "claim" to be a contributor. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Broadway/comments/1p6skq6/grosses_analysis_week_ending_november_23/

"I'm a contributor for Broadway World now! My most recent article can be found here- looking at the rising costs of musicals (a popular subject at the moment). A full archive of my work can be found here!"

If the reason you don't know is that you can't be bothered to click on a link to see one way or another, that's on you.

Hilty extends for a week (maybe because Simard is out that following week so they really need at least one of them and asked her to stay? Sales aren't looking great that week.)

People who bought their tickets for January 4 thinking it was her last show may be mad, but 1/4 may still be the last time to see them together.

Megan Hilty Extends Run in DEATH BECOMES HER by One Week

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Megan-Hilty-Extends-Run-in-DEATH-BECOMES-HER-by-One-Week-20251125

Variety:

‘Wicked’ Sequels Being Figured Out at Universal Pictures: ‘Things Are Underway’ to See How ‘We Can Continue in This Universe’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/wicked-for-good-sequel-universal-continue-franchise-1236591573

Huss417 said: "VernonGersch said: "A Must See - do whatever you can to grab a ticket - and the closer to the stage the better.

With that being said, Ms. Manville was none too pleased with folks filming the curtain call. She gestured quite strongly for those two folks to put their iPhones down during bows. And the looks she was giving one particular gentlemen as the final curtain fell, daggers.

An incredible, riveting piece of theater that MUST be seen."

I must be losing my mind as I am sure I read this a couple of days ago on here as I recall the Manville shooting daggers comment.."

There was at least one post about it on Reddit last week:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Broadway/comments/1oys6hl/go_see_oedipus_but_maybe_leave_your_phone_in_your

And someone just posted an hour ago that they've seen it four times and she's glared at people filming four times:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Broadway/comments/1p6f038/oedipus_fyi_if_you_are_in_the_first_few_rows_do

 

Daily Beast

Two Strangers Carry a Cake Across New York—and Onto Broadway

MEET CUTE

A Yank and a Brit share an unforgettable few days in the Big Apple in the new musical rom-com.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/two-strangers-carry-a-cake-across-new-yorkand-onto-broadway

"“Two Strangers” is funny in places, occasionally moving in others, and just a little off-feeling throughout, as if it is trying too hard to charm across the storytelling and whimsy chasms it creates for itself. Its flaws are not fatal, thanks to the singing skills, charm, and likeability of Pitts and Tutty who generate the right kind of tricky, rather than star-crossed, chemistry. (Can and should a would-be step-aunt and nephew really get together?)"

Three stars from NYP

‘Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)’ review: A hilarious new star bursts onto Broadway

https://nypost.com/2025/11/20/entertainment/two-strangers-carry-a-cake-across-new-york-review-a-hilarious-new-star-bursts-onto-broadway

"Tutty’s co-star in the two-hander, Christiani Pitts, is lovely as the Brooklyn-born city dweller who picks him up at JFK. Chemistry is essential here, and the well-cast pair blindingly spark. But the truth is that Tutty is not only carrying a cake, but an entire show."

B+ from Entertainment Weekly

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) review: A delightful rom-com musical comes to Broadway

A show all about connection connects in all the best ways.

https://ew.com/two-strangers-carry-a-cake-across-new-york-review-delightful-rom-com-musical-broadway-11850800

 

NY Daily News/Chicago Tribune

BROADWAY REVIEW: ‘Two Strangers Carry a Cake Across NY’ is cute but too long

https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/20/broadway-review-two-strangers-carry-a-cake-across-ny-is-cute-but-too-long

"Stories with odd couples on the edge of Eros, so to speak, can be very effective (see the movie “Lost in Translation” or the musical “The Band’s Visit“) but if writers choose to have their couple get naked and hit the sheets, in this case at the Plaza Hotel, since we’re all about New York aspiration here, they struggle to know where to go. So while this show held me for Act One with its considerable charm, by Act Two, it was hitting turbulence. 90 minutes and out would have been a better plan."

The Wrap

'Two Strangers' Broadway Review: They Sing Together, They Dance Together, They Don't Belong Together

"Two Strangers" is a new rom-com musical begins promisingly but loses its way somewhere between JFK and midtown Manhattan.

https://www.thewrap.com/two-strangers-broadway-review

Theatrely is negative

TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK): The Great British Millennial-Off — Review

https://www.theatrely.com/post/two-strangers-carry-a-cake-across-new-york-the-great-british-millennial-off-review

"I felt a disorienting generational whiplash throughout the treacly rom-com Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York). The latest British musical to make it through that country’s off-off ranks and onto our shores, it follows two 20-somethings during a whirlwind wedding weekend in present-day New York. And yet it fundamentally misunderstands Gen Z, is shot through with elder Millennial sensibility, and had a mostly older crowd wiping tears of laughter from their eyes. They seemed to thoroughly enjoy it, so congrats to all involved, but let me submit my dissenting opinion anyway."

Vulture: McHenry is mixed

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) Is a Little Sweet, a Little Spongy

'Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York),' an oddball British musical by Barne and Buchan, is charming but feels underscale for Broadway.

https://www.vulture.com/article/theater-review-two-strangers-carry-a-cake-across-new-york-barne-buchan-broadway.html

NY Stage Review

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York): Charming Musical Rom-Com Isn’t Heavy Lifting

By Frank Scheck

November 20, 2025

★★★★☆ Sam Tutty and Christiani Pitts star in this London import that could be a sleeper hit.

 

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York): A Tasty Slice of Cake

By David Finkle

November 20, 2025

★★★★☆ Musical import tells sweet-bitter tale of Brit and American finding each other and themselves

NYT Critic's Pick from Collins-Hughes

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/theater/two-strangers-carry-cake-review.html

‘Two Strangers’ Review: Meeting Cute, Toting Baggage

The effervescent musical, a new London import, delivers lavishly on the promise of a rom-com: laughter, escape and fantasy.

Helen Shaw's review for the New Yorker came out yesterday if it hasn't been posted yet.

Kristin Chenoweth’s Uneven Gilt Trip in “The Queen of Versailles”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/the-queen-of-versailles-theatre-review-the-burning-cauldron-of-fiery-fire

 

Also Rita Moreno has been open about the fact that her career struggled immediately after she won an Oscar for the same role, partly because she was only offered stereotypical roles she turned down. Things may be somewhat better, but are there a lot of roles DeBose would have been right for that she's missed out on? Being an Oscar winner doesn't go far if the roles simply aren't there.

Sean Hayes in The Unknown

https://studioseaview.com/show/the-unknown/

EDSOSLO858 said: "DTLI Consensus:Rollicking pop-rock score? Check. Three charismatic leads with immense vocal prowess? Check.Slick, sleek direction? Check. An improved revival of a famously flawed tuner? Not quite checkmate.

9 mixed (including the NYT), 3 positive, 3 negative.

https://didtheylikeit.com/shows/chess/"

I usually find it tiresome to argue over what's been classified positive/mixed/negative...but Holdren's review should clearly be positive, not mixed. 

Daily Beast

‘Chess,’ Theater’s Most Notorious Strange Beast, Finally Returns

CHECKMATE

A chess rivalry, the Cold War, and a love triangle: The quintessentially ‘80s musical is back on Broadway, in all its bombast.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/chess-review-theaters-most-notorious-strange-beast-finally-returns

"rather like a chess match, the show (directed by Michael Mayer, with a new book by Danny Strong), stares down each one of its own structural and narrative flaws, fixes the audience with a challenging glare, then makes a series of moves best known to itself to win our attention.

The show—less about chess, more about the possible end of the world because of Russian-American tensions—works in enough fits and starts to cohere, and in a few sung moments to actually thrill, thanks to the go-for-broke commitment of Christopher, Tveit, and Lea Michele as Florence, Freddie’s lover and chess strategist. The trio are differently excellent performers, who try— ultimately in vain—to make Chess’ characters and story intelligible."

The Wrap

‘Chess’ Broadway Review: It’s the Other ABBA Musical, the One That Never Works

The songs by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus return, strung together by a new, confusing book

https://www.thewrap.com/chess-broadway-review-abba-musical-lea-michele

"Danny Strong has rewritten that book for the first Broadway revival of “Chess,” which opened Sunday at the Imperial Theatre. Lovers of ABBA may continue to think the score’s great. For the rest of us, the musical features a couple of treacly sweet love songs and a slew of ponderous anthems and percussive dirges driven by propulsive rhythms. Audial exhaustion sets in about halfway through act one.

As for Strong’s new book, it’s even more confusing than Nelson’s rewrite, which never quite made sense of the story’s love triangle – or the show’s chess metaphor regarding the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. blowing each other up."

...

"

Tveit, a Tony winner for “Moulin Rouge,” delivers his best stage performance to date and emerges here as the only sympathetic character.

Lea Michele, on the other hand, exudes only defiance and resentment. She’s pissed off about something from the get-go and we never learn what’s making her so edgy – except for the fact that in today’s musicals female characters must show strength whatever the cost to the love story. Besides being Freddie’s girlfriend, she’s his “second,” someone who helps the chess player prepare for a match. Maybe Florence resents not being the star player, and Michele certainly makes the case for hogging the spotlight."