Given our national politics, British musicals Mincemeat Action It is not possible to reach Broadway at a more suitable time. It is a show that makes deep civil servants a hardworking, idealistic hero, defeating Hitler with cunning and courage. By contrast, we have people in the White House waving prop chains and tweeted that federal bureaucrats are worse than Der Führer…they may not be that bad guy, with some interesting ideas. We can certainly laugh in Bizarro America’s big topsation-turveydom. Five talented British clowns are happy to take on their obligations. Just don’t expect them to attend the Kennedy Center.
Designed by comedy troupe Spitlip Mincemeat The unlikely entertainment industry success about unlikely counterintelligence success. The cheeky musical debuted on Off Broadway in London and quickly moved to the West End (still running). The source material is the same as the 2022 Netflix movie (quite wooden) starring Colin Firth and Matthew MacFadyen. In 1943, a group of MI5 agents fabricated stunt expressions to convince General Hitler that the Allies were invading Sardinia, and Sicily was the target. If they could let Adolf move his soldiers, Sicily could be taken away. But how to make such false information destroy bad things? Fill the briefcase with fake military plans and attach it to the body of a Royal Marine officer who will find surfaced on the Spanish coast and died in a crash. easy.
The complex and not all logistics of this spy mission produces surprisingly affluent comedy and novel songs directed by Robert Hastie. The Agile Quintet (three of which the cast writes music, lyrics and books) plays over 80 characters, from Cockneys around the corner to Cockneys around the corner to a lucky American pilot, a variety of sailors, officers, Spanish coroners, Nazis and a dim, stubborn Ian Fleming. Their baseline main roles are the arrogant Ewan Montagu (Natasha Hodgson); the unsafe and weird Charles Cholmondeley (David Cumming); the clever and frustrated young secretary Jean Leslie (Claire-Marie Hall); the older, original secretary Hester Leggatt (Jak Malone); the military deception head starch Johnny Bevin (Zoë Roberts). Montagu locks in Charles’ quirky plan to keep the body on the ice, invents an officer’s character, and sends out harsh tricks from British submarines. Enter the dirty, post-purple coroner (Maron) on the top hat, the black cap is filled with glittering blood, singing”[o]Ms. LD is at all stages of decay towards teenagers. ”
so far Terrible history. Every performer has his signature style. Roberts specializes in male sexy Hodgson, who is soft and Cumming is a twitchy, fuzzy. All of their performances are advertised to the stupidity of children’s TV shows. So comedy ranges from kindergarten to fourth grade. If this is your business, it’s great. (My friends found that overactive robbery and stupid voices made a harsh sound on the nerves.) At the time on MI5, there were more serious attempts to inject social commentary into MI5’s gender inequality and acknowledge the sadness and sacrifice of the British in wartime. But even the sadness is thick and overflowed into the fault. The song “Dear Bill” in which Priggish Hester’s virtual letter to his girlfriend to the fake officer was moving enough and deepened when we lost Hester during the war. However, this number just exaggerates its welcome and a faint tears. I think the British need these annual excuses to cry in public, but in New York we call it Schmaltz.
I can’t say the score is destined to be excellent, but it helps with clever rhymes here and there, as well as a strict silly comics stage (for example, a farce ballet with two phones, two hats and a briefcase). From a musical point of view, the performance tone of the score sounds thoughtful Hamilton. Some painting songs are too dense to parse each word (such as Bevan’s Prolix debrief), but that doesn’t matter. There is a legal hilarious behavior opening: Nazi Nazi actions (choreographed by Jenny Arnold) to a light show that causes epilepsy (designed by Mark Henderson), which praises rhyme with “dasübermensch”. Will Act Two feel feminist messaging and humble British patriotism? That’s true. But when will we meet the theater again from artists and truly be proud of our country? Mincemeat Action It is totally cute, skillfully rooted, allowing us to exert our performance energy. Now I saw Spitlip’s visa and threw it into Guantanamo.
Mincemeat Action | 2 hours 35 minutes. A midfielder. |John Golden Theatre | 252 West 45th Street | 212-239-6200 | Buy tickets here
