Here’s a little tale of the Big Apple. Dougal arrives from England for a Christmastime wedding. His dad (who he has never met) is marrying Robin’s sister (it’s … complicated). They’re thrown together for 36 hours in New York. Doesn’t it sound like a movie?
A 2019 version of this bright British musical by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, a freelance writer for the Observer, was called The Season: their new title captures the meet-cute energy. Grounded, sardonic Robin meets wide-eyed Dougal at JFK, and accepts his help collecting the wedding cake. As they cross the city (“I love the subway!”), he overshares, she shuts down – and they’re the same age, so she isn’t delighted when he tries out “Aunty Robin?” for size.
