Following its Olivier award-winning run on the West End, Operation Mincemeat crossed the Atlantic and landed on Broadway! They might have mislead the German army and won the war, but did they win the critics over too?

Thursday night (March 20) saw the opening of Operation Mincemeat at the Golden Theater and the army of critics invaded the theater for a night of judgement. Let's find out what they thought...

"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...The five performers take on an endless stream of characters, but each is assigned a principle character that solidly ground the tale...The second act becomes almost too much of a good thing, overstuffed with strange-but-true subplots, incidental characters and plenty of switcheroos. But by the end it all comes together as it builds for its glitzy finale, appropriately titled A Glitzy Finale."
- Variety

"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."
- Theatermania

"There's a real, beating heart at the center of the show that elevates it above mere farce. Beneath the spoofs and gags, there's an emotional depth that makes the comedy funnier and the satire sharper. While skewering the stuffy, educated British elite, SpitLip has done its due diligence by making room among the jokes to pay homage to the real man whose body was used as a pawn in a military operation."
- Theatrely

"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 smiled more than once at Hodgson's bluff obliviousness-two and a half hours of it gets a little exhausting."
- TimeOut

Looks like Operation Mincemeat had the opening night they fought for and won most of the critics over! 

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