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Rebecca Rubin
Senior Film and Media Reporter
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Matthew Murphy Jim Barne and Kit Buchan were terrified of being outed as frauds. After all, they were two very British writers creating a very New York musical. And they’d only ever been to the Big Apple as tourists.
Turns out, they needn’t worry about appearing as outsiders. Their deep admiration of and fascination with the city and all its idiosyncrasies — “We live in London, but we’re New York obsessives,” Buchan admits — radiates through “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York).” A charming two-hander, the musical rom-com follows a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed Brit named Dougal (Sam Tutty) who travels to New York City for his estranged father’s wedding after a lifetime of fantasizing about visiting the big city. He ends up tagging along with the sister of the bride, a jaded native New Yorker named Robin (Christiani Pitts), as she runs last-minute errands — including picking up an expensive wedding cake all the way in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
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