Operation Mincemeat
Opening Night: March 20, 2025
Theater: Golden Theatre
Website: operationbroadway.com
The year is 1943 and right now we’re losing the war. Luckily, we’re about to gamble all our futures on a stolen corpse. Singin’ in the Rain meets Strangers on a Train, Operation Mincemeat is the fast-paced, hilarious and unbelievable true story of the twisted secret mission that won us World War II. Bursting at the seams with the kind of chaos you couldn’t invent, the question is: how did a dead body, a fake love letter, and – of all people – Ian Fleming come together to wrong-foot Hitler?
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March 20, 2025
But is it funny? Whether “Operation Mincemeat,” the diverting if irksome musical comedy about the plan, works as well will depend a lot on your answer to that question.
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March 21, 2025
Juvenile silliness is the blood pumping through this show. It’s packed with visual gags, mocking quirks and vocal modulations. Though not the quickest way to my funny bone, it totally works for general delight-seeking Broadway audiences
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March 20, 2025
Think of it as Monty Python on speed, and then throw in some Ealing Studio wit and a bit of “Beyond the Fringe” slyness. Too British? Not if you want to laugh uproariously — and perhaps even unexpectedly shed a tear or two.
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March 20, 2025
Naysayers thought it would be “too British” for us uncultured Yanks, but rest assured, it’s anything but. It’s a zany, high-energy crowd-pleaser with five actors juggling 87 characters and an unexpected poignancy that sneaks in between the laughs to leave you in tears.
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March 20, 2025
It’s a testament to its ingenuity that the show accomplishes all of this without ever taking itself too seriously. There are plenty of winks and nudges to the audience throughout, but make no mistake—Operation Mincemeat is some of the best of what musical theatre can be. It demands to be seen.
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March 20, 2025
While some moments certainly sizzle more than others, there’s more than enough sincerity and goofy charisma on stage to keep the show powered.
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March 20, 2025
The madcap World War II comedy from London, which opened Thursday night at the Golden Theatre, is an often tiring wallop of frenetic hyperactivity. There’s ample cleverness and some witty lines, but the Red Bull tweeness gets grating.
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Don’t let the modest cast of five fool you, Operation Mincemeat has long surpassed its humble beginnings and become a classic big, brassy Broadway experience. Expect no shortage of pizazz, frills, belly laughs, and, yes, confetti when you step into the John Golden Theatre — not to mention several catchy tunes stuck in your head when you exit.
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March 20, 2025
Robert Hastie provides the frenzied “Mincemeat” direction. It forced someone behind me to whisper halfway through Act 1, “This is exhausting.” Nothing kills a laugh faster than seeing actors sweat.
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Audiences are always receptive to flights into jubilant escapism—perhaps particularly now—and this plucky musical provides it in generous doses.
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March 20, 2025
If this looks to you like actors having fun, there’s a good chance you’ll dig what Operation Mincemeat is grinding. To me, it looks like actors pushing too hard. They don’t stop nudging you with their elbows, and while moments of that can tickle—I misled more than once at Hodgson’s bluff obliviousness—two and a half hours of it gets a little exhausting.
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Operation Mincemeat is totally lovable and expertly zany, with Big Let’s Put on a Show Energy. See it now before SpitLip’s visas are revoked and they get thrown in Guantánamo.
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Robert Hastie’s direction and Jenny Arnold’s frenetic choreography ensure a well-oiled engine of comedic and dramatic moving parts amid the music.
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To everybody who gripes that Broadway musicals nowadays tend to be mostly jukebox shows, teen-oriented extravaganzas, movies tuned up as tourist traps or tricked-out revivals: Operation Mincemeat is a must-see show for you.
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As they bound along, the five performers have ingrained their work so well they could amusingly pass for figures on a Swiss clock. Their ensemble presentation is like nothing—or very few things—seen on a local stage before. It’s a major reason, though hardly the only of abundant reasons, to make Operation Mincemeat gleeful obligatory viewing.
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Now this yarn is a self-aware and droll Broadway musical, a five-character London hit hoping that its very British signature blend of Monty Python and “Goon Show”-like humor, “Billy Elliot”-like music, “Hamilton”-like rhythms and hip, postmodern staging will tickle American fancy.
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March 20, 2025
An early candidate for Broadway’s song of the season has announced itself.
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