New understudies announced for TWO STRANGERS (Carry A Cake Across New York)

Emmie Newitt 4 July, 2024, 10:00

The fresh and funny take on a rom-com plays for a limited time in the West End, which must end performances next month.

Joe Kelly and Tilly La Belle Yengo. Photo by Danny with a Camera

New understudies have been announced for Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) at the Criterion Theatre until 21 August.

Tilly La Belle Yengo (Everybody's Talking about Jamie)and Joe Kelly (I Should Be So Lucky, UK Tour)will join Sam Tutty and Dujonna Gift in the critically acclaimed new British musical.

Directed by Tim Jackson, written by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan and designed by Soutra Gilmour, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) marks Barne and Buchan’s West End debuts. Barne and Buchan won The Stage Debut Award and the Stiles & Drewe prize for new musical theatre for an earlier version of the musical titled The Season, co-produced by Royal & Derngate, Northampton and the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich.

The full creative team includes Director and Choreographer Tim Jackson; Designer Soutra Gilmour; Lighting Designer Jack Knowles; Sound Designer Tony Gayle; Orchestration by Lux Pyramid; Casting Director Julia Horan CDG and Associate Director Claira Vaughan.