A collection of our favorite reviews from professional news sources.
"This is the musical you didn't know you needed—until you see the expert cast of five embracing and racing through a clutch of preposterous yet endearing characters and musical styles, telling a story with delicious precision."
Variety
David Benedict
"Oh, do laugh, deary. The Brits have made the year's funniest musical."
The Washington Post
Peter Marks
"A miraculous musical that tells the entire story in a kind of accelerated farce that is part Mel Brooks, part SIX, part Hamilton with a side order of One Man, Two Guvnors."
The Daily Mirror
Neil Norman
"Hilarious tale makes Mincemeat out of its rivals...Before curtain I talked to a fan seeing this for the seventh time. I wondered why anyone would see the same show seven times. Now I know."
"It was a simple College production and not the caliber of Broadway. Extremely talented cast but the set and material were below par for broadway. We left at intermission. I am glad they have people that are enjoying it, but it was not our cup of tea. "
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Broadway.com Customer on Nov 30, 2025
Couldn't understand a word they said or sang
"We go to Broadway a lot, as well as local and summer theatre.This is the only play/performance I would not recommend. Most of the words spoken or sung could not be understood as they are spoken ridiculously fast and often screamed. To compound that, more than one actor speaking or singing different lyrics at the same time. We paid a lot of money for great seats and were extremely disappointed. It was supposed to be very funny. Hard to tell when you can't understand what they are saying. No one in our row was laughing. The actors all seemed very talented and certainly energetic. That is the only good thing I can say. Too bad."
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Broadway.com Customer on Nov 17, 2025
A slapstick written by people who never saw war
"Apart from a couple of truly great songs, I did not get my money's worth at all. Horrible sound tech, disrespectful tone to the subjects at hand, and the worst of all was a blarring siren alarm at the start of act two, a spit in the face to people with PTSD. How can anyone justify taking the same amount of money as real musicals."
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Yuval D from Tel aviv on Sep 24, 2025
Just not for me
"It may be an ok show but just didn’t do it for me or my wife. Left at intermission."
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Broadway.com Customer on Sep 12, 2025
Hard to understand the lyrics
"Staging was very interesting. Rest of show was disappointing; I found it difficult/impossible to understand what the actors were saying in most of the songs. The only saving grace was that I had seen the movie so I knew the premise. "
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CATHERINE F from NEWARK on Aug 25, 2025
Boring and not funny
"I thought I would love this show, based on word of mouth, but it was so boring, never funny, extremely lackluster, and the whole audience seemed to be quite underwhelmed.
The second it was over people started running for the exits even before the cast came out for curtain calls. Pretty pretty bad!"
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Broadway.com Customer on Mar 23, 2025
Left at intermission; couldn't understand the dialogue
"We left at intermission. Neither my wife or I could understand one word of the dialogue and hence we had no idea what the plot was. Our seats were in the front of the mezzanine. No one around us laughed; the only folks who laughed during the entire Act 1 were in the orchestra seating. We could hear just fine but understanding was an entirely different matter. It was really disappointing as we were looking forward to the production."
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Broadway.com Customer on Nov 27, 2025
I left after Act 1
"I went to Operation Mincemeat in New York hoping for sharp humor and inventive storytelling, but left at the end of Act I feeling embarrassed for having brought a friend. A few actors delivered genuinely committed performances, yet the show itself struck me as childish — the jokes were basic, the pacing dragged, and the humor simply didn’t land. The audience’s response felt polite rather than enthusiastic, with applause that acknowledged effort but no real punch. I wanted to like it, but the material never rose above thin, predictable comedy, and the whole thing left me cold.
Afterward, I checked what critics had to say, and several of them echoed the same issues I felt so strongly during the performance: comments about the show’s “predictable jokes,” “sketch-like writing,” and “frenetic, tiring energy” appear across multiple reviews. Others do praise the cast’s stamina and the production’s inventiveness, but even the positive notices often note the show’s over-the-top tone or hyperactive style. So while opinions are mixed, enough professional reviewers point to the same structural weaknesses — weak book, thin humor, and frantic pacing — that I felt reassured my reaction wasn’t an outlier."
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Broadway.com Customer on Nov 26, 2025
Some Good, A Lot Not So
"Some of the singing and acting are poignant and fine.
Much is overplayed.
Of course, there’s a lot of talent.
Otherwise, other than the top talent, I would say the musical itself is of a college drama quality.
I would not have gone had I known what I know now. "
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Broadway.com Customer on Jun 23, 2025
Very Disappointed
"I bought tix to show with high expectations
Sad to report, left at intermission.
Why? I get it that this is a British production but the British actors were talking so fast you couldn’t understand them so you miss the story line
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Jen A from Harrisburg on Apr 11, 2025
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Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
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?
