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Too Bonkers to Be Believed? Why the Creators of the Broadway Musical ‘Operation Mincemeat’ Had to Cut Some Real-Life Details From the True Story
The entire, five-person cast of "Operation Mincemeat" appeared on the "Stagecraft" podcast to reveal why some bits of the story were just too bonkers.
Cumming appeared on “Stagecraft” with his fellow co-creators and actors, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts, along with their co-stars in the production, Claire-Marie Hall and Jak Malone. The show tells the WWII-era tale of a real-life espionage mission conducted by MI5 to trick the Nazis into believing that the allies intended to invade Greece instead of their true target, Sicily. “I couldn’t believe I was going to suggest that we write a musical about World War II, the most overdone topic of culture in the history of — anything, really,” Hodgson remembered.
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