The winds of chance have always been on the side of Operation Mincemeat.
No, not the team behind the soon-to-open Broadway musical, though well get to them in a second.
Somehow, this farce of a plan worked.
David Cumming, Zoë Roberts, Jak Malone, Claire-Marie Hall, and Natasha Hodgson ofOperation Mincemeat, which begins previews at Broadway’s John Golden Theatre on February 15.
Were the corpse to wake up today, he would not be as shocked at this outcome as theMincemeatteam.
We were like,Does anyone need any more art about World War fucking Two?
But the troupea ragtag team including castmates Natasha Hodgson and Zoe Roberts, plus the writer-musician Felix Hagancarried on.
Hodgson, Felix Hagan, Roberts, Cumming, Hall, and Malone at the Olivier Awards last year
(At Malones audition, Hodgson says, the group initially groaned about the fan-art guy coming in.)
If itwerehard, we wouldnt have done it, quips Roberts.
The show kind of forgets about it, and you never hear his name until its final moment.
The cast in New York
Operation Mincemeatopens on Broadway on March 20.
