TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) To Open On Broadway November 20, 2025- Page 3

[schubox]

Posted: 8/13/25 at 10:12am

These prices are stupid. I was all set to buy a couple for my trip in December, But I'll wait and get them off TKTs, where I am sure they'll be

[schubox]

Posted: 8/13/25 at 10:17am

On second look it seems like it's just the weekend prices that are stupid. Tickets that are $229 on a Thursday are $400 on a Saturday

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 8/13/25 at 10:27am

schubox said: "On second look it seems like it's just the weekend prices that are stupid. Tickets that are $229 on a Thursday are $400 on a Saturday"

And if the demand is not there, they will lower the price. This is how it works for every single show, and there is faux outrage about pricesevery time a show goes on sale.

There will always be some people willing to pay a premium for the “best” of something. Whether that’s 2 people a night or 200 people a night remains to be seen.

There will be innumerable opportunities to buy tickets for less than $88 closer to showtime. 

[witchoftheeast2]

Posted: 8/13/25 at 11:59am

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "schubox said: "On second look it seems like it's just the weekend prices that are stupid. Tickets that are $229 on a Thursday are $400 on a Saturday"

And if the demand is not there, they will lower the price. This is how it works for every single show, and there is faux outrage about pricesevery time a show goes on sale.

There will always be some people willing to pay a premium for the “best” of something. Whether that’s 2 people a night or 200 people a night remains to be seen.

There will be innumerable opportunities to buy tickets for less than $88 closer to showtime."

People complained about City Center pricing a while back, but that was also maybe a month before the show started so of course the prices went up. Prices had been much lower when they first went on sale. 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 8/13/25 at 12:06pm

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "schubox said: "On second look it seems like it's just the weekend prices that are stupid. Tickets that are $229 on a Thursday are $400 on a Saturday"

And if the demand is not there, they will lower the price. This is how it works for every single show, and there is faux outrage about pricesevery time a show goes on sale.

There will always be some people willing to pay a premium for the “best” of something. Whether that’s 2 people a night or 200 people a night remains to be seen.

There will be innumerable opportunities to buy tickets for less than $88 closer to showtime."

 

That strategy didn't work so well for Dead Outlaw, the last show in that house. Yes, its thread when tickets went on sale was also filled with laments (or "faux outrage"?) about how insanely expensive the prices were. And it lasted 2 1/2 months. At least this show is doing the $88 promo, whereas Dead Outlaw offered no discounts. In retrospect, maybe the producers would have been happier getting people in at a lower price point and having those advance sales banked?

Relying on the fact that you can lower prices later means also relying on the idea that ticketbuyers will check back later for the lower prices, demand will suddenly appear, and the producers don't need a healthy advance and are safe waiting. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. But as someone who thought it was a dumb call for Dead Outlaw, it also seems dubious for this original musical not based on preexisting material with no stars to try it too. 

(For the record, I bypassed buying a full price ticket to DO and saw it with a lottery ticket. Good for me, bad for them.)

Updated On: 8/13/25 at 12:06 PM

[denali.fire]

Posted: 8/14/25 at 6:38pm

quizking101 said: "This show was so ridiculously cute and I loved it (and Tutty) in London. It has potential for a cult following for sure, but I doubt (short of marketing the hell out of it) that they are going to fill up the Longacre.

Honestly, if ART and this show switched, I feel like this would be better in the Music Box. (The Broadhurst is out of commission until Spring, to my understanding)"

Since you have seen it what is the running time .  I thought it was about 90min in London but it is now showing 2hr 15min with a 15 min intermission. 

Thanks 

[Skywalker3]

Posted: 8/15/25 at 7:33am

It never was a 90 minute show. In Londen it was 2 hours and 10 minutes with a 15 minute interval

[Dreamboy3]

Posted: 8/15/25 at 7:58am

BorisTomashevsky said: "kdogg36 said: "BorisTomashevsky said: "Cuea faction of the mob screaming about too many non-Americans on the Broadway stage and “does anyone even CARE aboutthe actors who didn’t get the role?”in 3… 2…"

Screaming frantically about (the virtually non-existent phenomenon of)foreigners taking jobs from Americans seems more like a right-wing MAGA thing to me."

Well there’s the cast of Mincemeat who’ll be employed for the better part of a year.

But I suppose you have a point, kdogg. As long as no white American men or women are getting more jobs than they have a right to, the rabble will be quiet and we won’t anticipate a riot."

There was a time when Actor’s Equity did object to British actors coming to Broadway.  If I recall correctly, sometimes the settlement involved casting an American in an equivalent role in an equivalent West End production. 

[DeNada]

Posted: 8/15/25 at 8:46am

I believe the Equity arrangement still stands about exchanging casts unless there's a particular skillset or celebrity level (i.e. one man show/star vehicle) that precludes it - hence why Rachel Zegler and two unknown Americans play the leads in EVITA (Aaron Lee Lambert is also American but has been in the UK for years), presumably balancing out the three Brits without international standing in principal roles in SUNSET (Scherzinger I think has international star status in a way Zegler doesn't yet, and had also already done CATS in London).

I've no idea who the "trade" for Sam Tutty is or will be, though.

 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 8/15/25 at 10:06am

No, the AEA exchange program does not exist any more, thankfully. It's quite easy to get union approval to employ international actors, famous or not. (Work Visas may be a different matter especially in the current political climate, and there is still the matter of the production having to cover housing/travel for artists who aren't a "local hire" - which some producers simply do not want to do.)

Updated On: 8/15/25 at 10:06 AM

[kdogg36]

Posted: 8/15/25 at 11:48am

Dreamboy3 said: "here was a time when Actor’s Equity did object to British actors coming to Broadway. If I recall correctly, sometimes the settlement involved casting an American in an equivalent role in an equivalent West End production."

Yes, when ALW wanted to bring Sarah Brightman to New York in Phantom, he had to promise to cast an American lead in his next London show. He ended up hiring Americans, Ann Crumb and Kathleen Rowe-McAllen, for both female leads in Aspects of Love. I think Michael Crawford's (grr) level of stardom by that time meant he was allowed to transfer without any Equity tit-for-tat.

Updated On: 8/15/25 at 11:48 AM

[Melissa25]

Posted: 8/18/25 at 7:29pm

Loving the thoughtful ads for Two Strangers:

[binau]

Posted: 8/20/25 at 2:35am

The more I think about this, the more I'm convinced it's going to be a terrible, terrible failure. A small show opening in the dead of winter with a complete unknown creative team and actors? It really shouldn't be on Broadway. FWIW, it didn't exactly ignite the box office in London on fire either....(it did 'off west end' but not in the transfer).