Writers of Tony nominee ‘Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)’ never lived in New York before penning the show

George Mihalcea

Their lives changed in a New York minute. The childhood friends from England who wrote “Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)” — which has been nominated for a staggering eight Tony Awards — never even lived in New York before writing the Broadway musical . Kit Buchan and Jim Barne had only visited the Big Apple as tourists, so relied heavily on films based in the city to pen the production. “All our lives, we just absorb so much of this city and felt so familiar with it, despite the