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‘Operation Mincemeat’ Review: Broadway Transfer of the Olivier-Winning Musical Has Absurdity, Laughs and Heart
The musical comedy retells a loopy true story of a WWII espionage operation with absurdity, laughs and heart.
An astonishing, loopy and very true World War II story about Great Britain tricking Germany into believing false invasion plans has been the source material for non-fiction books and movies dramas. Writing both script and music, SpitLip — David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts — began developing the show on London’s theatrical fringes before moving over six years to increasingly larger stages, eventually to the West End. The original cast — Cumming, Hodgson, Roberts, Jak Malone and Claire-Marie Hall — now arrives on Broadway with a well-seasoned show full of pluck, luck and dazzle — and a kind of outrageous and improbable mission of its own.
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