Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) is a 130-minute musical at the 1,077-seat Longacre Theatre. It opened in 2025 and is in its open run. Multiple cheap-seat routes are in play: an official lottery, an in-person rush, and TKTS booth eligibility.

Digital lottery

$48 Telecharge Rush (Rush.Telecharge.com) lottery

2 tickets per winner

Platform
Telecharge Rush (Rush.Telecharge.com)
Price
$48 per ticket
Entry window
Entries open 12 AM the day before the performance
Draw / notification
Drawn 10 AM and 3 PM the day before the performance
Quantity limit
Up to 2 per winner

$48 lottery. Enter daily for the highest cumulative odds.

Enter the Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) lottery →
In-person rush

$42 box-office rush

Up to 2 per buyer

Format
In-person at the box office
Price
$42 per ticket
Opens
Box office opens 10:00 AM Tuesday-Saturday, 12:00 PM Sunday
How to enter
Show up at the Longacre Theatre box office (220 W 48th St) on the day of the performance. First-come, first-served, subject to availability.
Quantity limit
Up to 2 per buyer

$42 in-person rush at the Longacre box office from 10 AM on the day of each performance, limit 2 per person — well under the show's official floor of $59.

Get directions to the box office →
TKTS booth

Same-day discounts at TKTS

Typically 20–50% off face value

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) has appeared at the TKTS booth (Times Square, Lincoln Center and the Lower Manhattan locations) — same-day discounts of roughly 20–50% off face value. Appearance and discount level vary day-to-day; shorter-running shows and weekday performances are the better bets.

See today's TKTS list →

How TKTS actually works →

The realistic playbook

  1. Enter the lottery first. Lowest price, zero effort. Set a daily reminder; the entry windows are unforgiving.
  2. Line up early for rush on a non-lottery day. Weekday performances are the friendliest.
  3. TKTS is the fallback. Same-day, in-person — head to the Times Square booth around 3 PM for evening shows.
  4. If all else fails, compare the resale market on the main Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) page — sometimes resale dips below face for less-popular performances.

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