Eighty-seven characters, 74 five-star reviews, eight years of work, one big question standing in the way.
The journey of Operation Mincemeat from unknown fringe show to unlikely hit on the West End and now Broadway has been a long and surprising one for its creator/stars.
As the fan-favorite musical — based on the real-life World War II mission to disguise the Allied invasion of Sicily from the Axis powers — takes the stage at the Golden Theatre ahead of opening night, we gathered David Cumming (Charles Cholmondeley/cowriter), Claire-Marie Hall (Jean Leslie), Natasha Hodgson (Ewen Montague/cowriter), Jak Malone (Hester Leggatt), and Zoë Roberts (Ian Fleming/cowriter) for a wide-ranging conversation about the show’s history, its reception in the Big Apple, and, once and for all, whether or not it’s “too British for Broadway...READ MORE